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  1. PPABryan PPABryan is offline

    Washington, DC
    United States

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    Dec 5th, 2007 (12/5/2007 1:28pm)

    Hi, my name is Bryan Spadaro and I work for the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) in Washington DC. The PPA is dedicating to fighting for the rights of poker players to ensure that Americans can enjoy this great game in all its forms of play.

    I am really excited about the addition of this forum to this site, because I see pocketfives as the pulse of the internet poker community, especially for younger, legal of course, players. I encourage everyone in this community to join us in this fight, because whether you realize it or not, the playing field of Internet poker will continue to change, in a negative way unless we all fight those changes. Neteller, the exit of party poker and Paradise, Firepay, and the depositing difficulties Americans face are results of UIGEA, whose regulations have not even been formalized. While it may not be overly difficult today to play online poker, it is getting harder and if some in Washington have their way, they will deprive you of your ability to wager online.

    I have been a member of this community under my former screen name since 2005, but in the future I will post here under this name. I have been playing poker on the Internet since 2002, when a friend of mine showed me what this “Party Poker” thing was. I have been playing regularly ever since. I helped pay for my college education with poker both online and grinding out 10-20 limit at Harrah New Orleans. After college I played in my first WSOP and it was pretty exciting stuff, even though I didn't cash at all, I won two tourneys on stars while I was there, and got to hang out with some awesome young Internet players. At this time I decided, whether I could make it or not, that I really had no desire to be a pro player. Poker would always be a hobby for me. My true desire was to come to Washington DC and have a career in Politics. After arriving in DC last August, I found a job in the Advocacy Division of the American Medical Association, working for their Political Action Committee, doing fundraising. But poker was still a regular activity for me, leading me to my second WSOP. This time the results were a bit better and I bubbled the final table of one of the last bracelet events, the limit hold em shootout, getting heads up for a trip to the final table. I came to work at the PPA just by seeing an ad, and being that this issue was something I was passionate about, and it has been a really exciting two months.

    I hope you will take a moment to go to the PPA Web site, www.pokerplayersalliance.org, and learn more about this organization and what we are doing to keep poker legal. I look forward to open dialogue with this forum and I welcome your thoughts and suggestion on how the PPA can work best for you.

    Keeping IT Legal,

    Bryan Spadaro
    Membership Relations, Manager
    Poker Players Alliance
  2. whangarei whangarei is offline

    Alliance, NE
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    Dec 5th, 2007 (12/5/2007 10:10pm) in reply to PPABryan

    Good to hear Bryan! We'll be looking forward to your updates.
  3. kew1076 kew1076 is offline

    Glen Burnie, MD
    United States

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    Dec 5th, 2007 (12/5/2007 11:48pm) in reply to whangarei

    Good to see more familiar faces...
  4. PurpleDrink PurpleDrink is offline

    Denver, CO
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    Dec 6th, 2007 (12/6/2007 9:08pm) in reply to PPABryan

    B,

    Thanks for sticking with us. I am sure you will find this medium a little more supportive and shall we say "open".

    ryAn
  5. TheEngineer TheEngineer is offline Rich Muny - PPA Board VP

    KY
    United States

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    Dec 6th, 2007 (12/6/2007 9:10pm) in reply to PurpleDrink

    Awesome! We have a lot of work to do for our rights. I'm encouraged that we have a great forum with great people to do this.
     
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