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HEADLINE: Poker Players Alliance Hosts First
Annual Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.
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The world's top professional poker players, poker enthusiasts
and industry leaders will converge on Capitol Hill next week for
two days of meetings on Oct. 23 and 24 to discuss the future of
Internet gaming.
The Poker Players Alliance, which has more than 800,000 members
nationwide, is hosting the Washington "fly-in" to raise
awareness and support for several legislative proposals that seek
to license, regulate and control Internet
poker and clarify poker
as a game of skill.
Nearly 100 PPA members, including some of the game's top names,
will meet congressional members of the House Judiciary and Financial
Services Committees which have primary jurisdiction over the current
Internet gaming bills.
Top poker pros include: Chris Moneymaker, Annie Duke, Howard
Lederer, Barry Greenstein, Andy Bloch, Vanessa Rousso, Chad Brown
and Victor Ramdin. *
Events Open to Media
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 5:30pm to 7:30pm -- The PPA will host a reception
in Rayburn House Office Building room 2226 where Members of Congress,
staff, media and others are invited to mix and mingle with the
poker pros and PPA members from across the country.
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 10:00am -- A public forum on internet
poker entitled, "Poker: Public Policy, Politics, Skill
and the Future of an American Tradition," will take place
in room 2200 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Panelists include:
Howard Lederer; Prof. Charles Nesson, Harvard Law; Andrew Woods,
Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society; Radley Balko, Sr. Editor,
Reason Magazine; and, Kenneth Adams, Dickstein Shapiro LLP.
* Call to schedule interviews with the poker pros.
The Poker Players Alliance http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/
is a non-profit organization advocating on behalf of American
poker players.
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