Washington, DC (August 6, 2009) –The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today commended Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) for introducing the Internet Poker and Games of Skill Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act. The legislation establishes the needed licensing and regulatory framework...

The effort to roll back an Internet gambling ban has reached the Senate, with a bill by Senator Robert Menendez that calls for licensing and regulating online poker and other "games of skill" instead of outlawing them. Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, intends to introduce the bill today, according to the Poker Players Alliance, which lobbies against the 2006 ban.

Der neuste Versuch sichere Rahmenbedingungen für Geschicklichkeitsspiele (wie z.B. Poker) auf nationaler Ebene zu schaffen, wurde vor kurzem mit der Vorstellung des Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act, S. 3616 unternommen, welcher von Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) präsentiert wurde. Der Gesetzentwurf wurde geschaffen, um sichere Rahmenbedingungen für die Lizenzierung...