The USA continues equivocating that organizations such as the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) are trying to reopen the American internet-based gambling market in order to allow all forms of online gambling. The PPA wants to make legislative carve-outs for online poker gambling that would exempt the gambling activity from the UIGEA, the US online casinos prohibition. At the moment there are more than one million US registered members in the PPA with hundreds of thousands in funds.

The PPA uses some of its funds to lobby Congress. They want Congress to change the current online gambling legislation. Other funds are spent on educating land-based casino poker players and state politicians. At this time, the PPA has got a booth at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It is using the WSOP as a platform in order to educate land poker gamblers of the present hypocritical and unconstitutional US online gambling ban. The WSOP welcomes the best online and land poker gamblers who make the event the ideal site for the organization to reach a broad band of their market target.

Alfonse D’Amato, the Chairman of the PPA, gave his comments on the prime PPA’s booth location, “We are excited to bring our grassroots attempts to the sacred ground of poker. We’re thankful that Harrah’s and the WSOP have provided premium space for us to pass the message to the poker community.” The PPA is aimed at spreading its message that poker is a skill game not a crime.