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• Poker Players Alliance

Needs your support. They have a goal of 1 million poker players to register for Poker Players Alliance. If you click the logo you will be taken to their site and see that they have over 660,000 registered PPA members. Ever since last October when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) was signed into law Poker players have been joining this grass roots effort to assist in getting Poker back into the legal forefront of the United States.
The site has lots of information regarding Fighting for Poker including:

• Major Points
• Federal Legislation
• Latest Member Actions

The reason I am blogging about this today, is I saw on the site the ability to send pre-filled letters to your congressman to support HR 2046 the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007 sponsored by Rep Barney Frank and to support HR 2610 the ‘Skill Game Protection Act’ introduced by congressman Robert Wexler. The site even sends the letters for you. It couldn’t be easier to tell your Congressman that you support Poker and have the Country start down the path to removing the UIGEA law.

So your ‘Dead Money’ blogger is recommending that you join the Poker Players Alliance and click a couple links to send the letters to your Congressman. Please do it now.

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• Harvard Study does not support fears about Online Gambling

had this story recently, a comprehensive study of online gambling behaviors.

Harvard Medical School’s Division of Addictions characterizes a majority of online gamblers’ behavior as “moderate,” concluding that its findings do not support previously-made claims that online gambling has “an inherent propensity” to cause problem or “excessive” gambling.
source

the study responds to the current paucity of information regarding online gambling and to the fact that “concerns about Internet gambling are growing across various interest groups.” For similar reasons, Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) proposed a House bill (H.R. 2140) early last month to provide for a study of online gambling by the National Academy of Sciences source

The study included:

• Data from 40,000 individuals over an 8 month period in 2005
• Time spent gambling
• Frequency of placing bets
• Amount bet

Researchers concluded that:

“the subscribers’ gambling activity levels were moderate,” and that the “findings reported here do not support the speculation that Internet gambling has an inherent propensity to encourage excessive gambling among a large proportion of players.” source

The author concludes the story by reporting that future studies will likely include the online Poker Industry.

• Your ‘Dead Money’ blogger Michael

hopes any future study doesn’t include his online money won, tournament wins or in the money finishes, because he is pretty certain the study will return ‘no data found’.

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