Poker Players lobbying in Washington
About 100 members from the nonprofit Poker Players Alliance – including poker stars Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Chad Brown and Vanessa Rousso – were in Washington this week to raise the stakes and push legislative proposals that would ease federal restrictions on online poker. The key argument among the poker players supporting Frank’s legislation is that the 2006 law infringes on civil liberties by authorizing government to rule on what Americans should or should not do in the privacy of their homes, said John Pappas, executive director for the poker alliance. 
The Internet gambling law led to a World Trade Organization ruling in favor of the Caribbean nation of Antigua, which charged the U.S. with violating its treaty obligations by not granting full market access to online gambling companies based in the island nation. Antigua filed a claim for $3.4 billion in trade sanctions against the U.S.
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