The “Players Before Profits” campaign allows PPA members and all poker players to call, email or tweet the Commerce Casino to express their disappointment and urge the organization to support H.R. At the same time, intra-state licensing legislation means players in California can only play on California sites, with other players in California – severely restricting the both the pool of available players and types of games available to California poker players. The Commerce Casino’s opposition to federal licensing and regulation is a direct result of its desire to promote California-only licensing and regulation that would create a monopoly market where they are the main provider of online gaming services in the state. The PPA’s ‘Players Before Profits’ campaign gives poker players a vehicle to express their disappointment with Commerce Casino.” “They are angry and want to make their voices heard. “Members of the PPA, and poker players nationwide, are outraged that the Commerce Casino, the largest poker room in the nation, opposes Federal legislation that would protect players’ rights and access to online poker,” said John Pappas, executive director of the PPA.

PPA’s open letter to Commerce Casino has already yielded support signatures from over 120 high-level poker advocates, including PPA state directors and stars of today’s professional poker circuit like Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Barry Greenstein and Phil Hellmuth. 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act.

Citing concerns that the Commerce Casino has turned its back on poker enthusiasts nationwide by putting profits ahead of player interest and aligning with those determined to ban online poker, the PPA, the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today launched a campaign to seek to change Commerce Casino’s position on federal licensing and regulation of online poker as proposed in H.R.

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