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Home History Games News Dictionary		Despite the continued prohibition on online gambling in the US, the game of poker got some special attention from Washington lawmakers this week as poker pros, celebrities and politicians alike showed their colors for a charity poker tournament in Washington DC. The event, which was organized by the Poker Players Alliance, hosted the fame and skills of both Annie Duke and Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer as the group came together to raise funds for the Ante Up for Africa efforts, a continued poker initiative that has Darfur as one of their main charity recipients. The event was deemed by attendants and the online gambling community as a whole to be a huge success, raising more than $70,000 for Ante Up for Africa, Duke’s main charity enterprise. The incentive to play was the grand prize, donated by Full Tilt Poker, which paid for the seat to this year’s World Series of Poker. Many of the lawmakers who chose to attend the event are known and liked supporters of the internet gambling initiative, including a list of those co-signors to Congressman Barney Frank’s legalization bill. Republican Joe Barton was there from Texas, as was New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, credited for the drafting of a companion bill to Frank’s that more directly addresses the online poker market in the US. The charity event was hosted by the American group the Poker Players’ Alliance; their chief executive, John Pappas was appropriately in attendance and, as usual, more than willing to make official statements to the press: “[Legalization is] not going to be an easy thing to do because it's an election year,” he said, “but if you have the right people who want to do two things: license and regulate those games which should be legal, like poker, but also make sure [enforcement against] illegal activities that they don't want - sports betting, for instance - is strengthened, then agreement is possible."

05/01/2010

Online Casino Style: News
Politicians Play Poker

Despite the continued prohibition on online gambling in the US, the game of poker got some special attention from Washington lawmakers this week as poker pros, celebrities and politicians alike showed their colors for a charity poker tournament in Washington DC. The event, which was organized by the Poker Players Alliance, hosted the fame and skills of both Annie Duke and Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer as the group came together to raise funds for the Ante Up for Africa efforts, a continued poker initiative that has Darfur as one of their main charity recipients.

The event was deemed by attendants and the online gambling community as a whole to be a huge success, raising more than $70,000 for Ante Up for Africa, Duke’s main charity enterprise. The incentive to play was the grand prize, donated by Full Tilt Poker, which paid for the seat to this year’s World Series of Poker.

Many of the lawmakers who chose to attend the event are known and liked supporters of the internet gambling initiative, including a list of those co-signors to Congressman Barney Frank’s legalization bill. Republican Joe Barton was there from Texas, as was New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, credited for the drafting of a companion bill to Frank’s that more directly addresses the online poker market in the US.

The charity event was hosted by the American group the Poker Players’ Alliance; their chief executive, John Pappas was appropriately in attendance and, as usual, more than willing to make official statements to the press: “[Legalization is] not going to be an easy thing to do because it's an election year,” he said, “but if you have the right people who want to do two things: license and regulate those games which should be legal, like poker, but also make sure [enforcement against] illegal activities that they don't want - sports betting, for instance - is strengthened, then agreement is possible."