The Poker Alliance Wants Obama

The Poker Players Alliance is preparing for their trip to Washington D.C. later this month and gathering their members other and recruiting representatives of online poker operators. They recently approached attendees at the EIG and Expo in Barcelona stating that every operator, online casino and software developer needs to send a company figure to represent their companies.

They have been working with the camp of Barack Obama who is running in the 2008 election for President to arrange a meeting on this issue.

Recently it was discovered that Obama not only loves to play poker he has been working behind the scenes to have the ban on online poker lifted, and it was reported that he did not feel online poker was harmful to poker players.

The Poker Players Alliance has meetings scheduled during their fly-in from October 22^nd to October 24^th, with other politicians in Washington that represent some of the key districts. 

One of these politicians is Robert Wexler a Democratic Representative of Florida, and was responsible for introducing the Poker and Skill gaming Protection Act earlier this summer. This Act would allow American poker players to play online, while games of skill are to be treated different than games of chance.