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PPA Ready to Join Texas Fight
Pokerati | Texas Hold'em and Las Vegas Poker Blog — The PPA has been keeping an eye on Texas for a while … seeing it as a potential “battleground state”. Now it seems they’re ready to put some resources behind it, as they’ve launched a new website to anchor their Texas efforts: http://www.legalizetexaspoker.com/ I contacted retired Pokerati-er and the PPA’s Texas state director, Lavigne in Austin for an interview on this web development, a transcript of which is pasted below: Michalski: This is a good thing, right? Lavigne: Yes ...

Why Do I Want to Pay a Rake?
AimlesslyChasingAmy — ... and MA and they arranged for some responsible and coherent testimony at a Congressional hearing. But more often than not, their shotgun approach to an agenda annoys me. So when I saw the title of their last email “We need your help in Texas,” I immediately deleted it. The gist of it can be found here. ...

Comment on Why Do I Want to Pay a Rake? by Danieldinho
Comments for AimlesslyChasingAmy — ... and MA and they arranged for some responsible and coherent testimony at a Congressional hearing. But more often than not, their shotgun approach to an agenda annoys me. So when I saw the title of their last email “We need your help in Texas,” I immediately deleted it. The gist of it can be found here . Poker is already legal in Texas. As long as a game is fair, private, and the house doesn’t rake, you can play poker all day long for any stakes you like. I’m down with that. As a player, what’s not to love? So why does the PPA insist that they are humping in my best interest to ...

Texas Poker Bill to Get Its House Vote Austin game violently robbed
Pokerati | Texas Hold'em and Las Vegas Poker Blog — ... or here to send the whole House of Representatives an email letting them know you hear they’ll be voting on HB 222, and that you will really admire them for seeing the sensibility of this legislation. ...