About the Poker Players Alliance
Poker is more popular than ever and it is a political issues. From attempts to ban online poker site to crackdowns on private poker games, poker enthusiasts face a shifting legal playing field while the game increases in popularity. A grassroots movement, The Poker Players Alliance is a non-profit membership organization comprised of online and offline poker players who organize to speak with one voice to promote the game and protect the right to play poker in all its forms. The PPA’s mission is to establish favorable laws that provide poker players with a secure, safe and regulated place to play. Through education and awareness the PPA will keep this game of skill, one of America’s oldest recreational activities, free from egregious government intervention and misguided laws. Even as public support for poker grows and interest in the game expands through televised celebrity matches and other events, several states and localities are making changes to laws that encroach on poker players’ abilities to play online, at home, in bars or taverns, and even at charity events across the country. Moreover, some at the federal level have dedicated themselves to putting an end to interactive poker. Last year, in the dark of night, Congress passed legislation which seeks to keep you from playing poker over the Internet. The PPA is working Congress to undo the legislations which they consider misguided, and establish new laws that clarify the legal status of poker and establish licensed and regulated Internet poker in the U.S. 
The PPA believes these measures are a result of over-zealous, big government policies that left unchallenged would guarantee that poker players from Bakersfield, California to Bangor, Maine, would be at risk of losing their freedom to play poker. With a broad membership base and well known spokespeople such as 2004 World Series of Poker champion Gray Raymer, the PPA intends to keep the popular mainstream legal and intelligently regulated so that all can enjoy the competition and community building that the game of poker brings to the table.