Why The Pokers Players Alliance (PPA)

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The Pokers Players Alliance(PPA), is an organization built to protect the rights for all citizens to be able to play poker regardless of the situation people have. There main goal is to be able to grasp favorable laws that allow them to secure the rights of playing poker. The adversity the PPA faces through their goals is the government, which created the Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, pulling away their rights to gamble in online poker. The PPA committee is justifying congress to ban that act, and perhaps create a new law the benefits the ability to play poker in any form. This organization is a non-profit membership group, and it consist of 3,800 online and offline poker playing members. This interest group was chosen because of the small,

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