I don’t know why but the PPA felt that with thousands of players stuck with hundreds of millions of dollars on Full Tilt and Ultimate Bet and Barton set to unveil a new online poker bill in Congress that they needed to release the following. Dear Fellow Poker Player, PPA State Directors at the WSOP …
It is in times of trouble that you truly learn the nature of people (or organizations). Since Black Friday I think we’ve seen the character of a lot of organizations. Stars stepped up to the plate and made a very timely refund of player monies (all things considered). Tilt has disappeared into a black hole …
There seems to be some confusion about what player account segregation means and how this all plays out in the recent DOJ action seizing bank accounts and poker sites being unable to pay back players. Please consider the diagram below. It’s a very simple version of how payment processing works (or did work up until …
I want to preface this article by saying that as one of the first people to join the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) when the group was founded back in 2005, I feel they have done a terrific job on a number of fronts for the poker community, perhaps the most important of which was the …
Online poker is illegal in the US! There, I said it. The PPA is never going to say it. The online poker sites are never going to say it. And many players and industry people have repeated the “online poker is not illegal” mantra for so long that many people have begun to believe it. …