The Poker Players Alliance also called PPA has long been pushing a return to reason when it comes to online poker legislation within the United States. It’s been a long time since the UIGEA has denied players in the United States of online poker opportunities, grouping poker into equal class as other types of pure gambling when poker has more factors of skill than luck to the general game.

At the moment, it seems as though the transformations people anticipated to begin in 2006 when Democrats took over Congress has at last started to appear, but not in the expected direction that most forecasters had. (more…)