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Senator Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the PPA, appeared on the Howard Stern radio program today to promote National Poker Week, and the PPA petition to be presented to President Obama, which has 350,000 signatures so far. It was a very entertaining and candid appearance. No doubt there will many new PPA members and petition signatures as a result. If you missed it, it is replaying on Sirius XM radio all day on channel 100, and will be played as part of a best of the week reboadcast from Friday

Didn't mention before, during the interview Stern agreed to join, and promoted the PPA site and petition drive. They also spent 20 minutes on the subject during the Wrap Up Show. Nice job Al!

Bodog is a sportsbook. They make huge sums of money. There are no Sportsbooks that have great poker rooms. The best poker rooms make poker their primary business. Poker is just another way they get money into their sportsbook. You are not going to harm their business by posting this if that is your purpose.

PokerStars is not pubicly owned. If it were, it would not be open to US players. It is a privately held site owned by Rational Entertainment Enterprises Limited. After the events of last week, they stated they were guaranteeing payments to the players whose funds were seized. This is a near term loss in the millions of dollars. They will now incur substantial legal fees in efforts to get the money back. They also lost their main deposit method for US players. Obviously, they are ratcheting back the

Fewer deposits = smaller fields. PStars easiest deposit methods(US) are gone. They don't know or are not saying if/ when echeck will return. We already know credit card deposits won't be back. When the field sizes decrease, I'm certain people will be back here saying they lost the players because they lowered the guarantee by a few thousan dollars, not because people could not get money on the site. This is not a chicken/ egg scenario. No money = no game. I don't know what percentage

"I wasn't by any means trying to be mean towards anyone, I'm just sick of uncompassionate people who don't have sympathy or understanding for people. Many of us have so much to be grateful for, yet we (I'm guilty of this myself many times) use our energy to put others down instead of bringing them up, which upsets me. I was just hoping everyone would be understanding and know, that if you were in that situation, you would want people building you up and not tearing you down."

"I am very much against all the scheister attorney references in this world, and I think that by acting ethically at all times and always respecting the laws of our government (no matter whether we agree or not) attorneys will, someday, be given some respect (please understand that I do not at all believe that my law degree in any way puts me above anyone on this forum or elsewhere; I've washed plenty of dishes and taken enough shit to respect everyone from any walk of life, however, I think

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In other words, no penalty for new violations. Short sighted, and there is no more practical solution for your personal opinion. The only solution is to find them when you can, and ban them.