Time to have our voices heard - Criticism of the PPA - Page 4

PokeReader · #31 10-04-2006, 05:30 PM

Which is why it must be free. You have no chance of getting to a million members with a 20 dollar charge. I do this for I living, (run federal political campaigns), you need a sign up here to help repeal internet poker ban. Then you use the list to fund raise. Some people will work and not give, some will be low dollar givers, and some people you are wasting asking them for 20 dollars when you should be asking them for 20 thousand.

bearly · #32 10-04-2006, 05:53 PM

i guess i am going against the flow here but, i look at howard lederer, and to a much greater degree, "jesus" ferguson and ask myself, "would i buy a used car from these guys?" i really wouldn't...............b

bearly · #33 10-04-2006, 06:02 PM

a serious question here: it has been estimated by very respected posters and experts (i am not one), that the raked sites (roughly 10%) cannot support more than 6-8% of the players being winners. i am not a winner. why should i support the sharks on this and other forums who are beating the drums? and i have no use for the argument that it is the principle of protecting our rights. gambling has not been a right in this country, in the same way that freedom of speech or other basic rights have been construed. here in so cal various jurisdictions have held that gambling is legal, then illegal, then legal again. been going on for my entire life. well, that is my 1/2 cent worth..........b

Miamipuck · #34 10-04-2006, 06:26 PM

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The fact that this isn't already happening concerns me. Combined with the reservations of Mason et al - is enough to make me very wary of giving them my money.

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You would listen to them why? because they fought tooth and nail to stop this bill?

LOL, all of this is kind of ridiculous. I joined the PPA and actually got 5 bucks out of the deal. Again it was a riskless transaction. What are they going to do abscond with our 20 bucks and live the high life in Thailand?

Nate had a post that laid out much of what PPA has and has not done and mentioned their lobbying team. Lobbying teams by the way do not come cheap. They also organzied a National phone campaign which in and of itself was 100x more then almost any organization with a vested interest against this legislation did.

Everybody wants to blame the PPA, a rather new organization and most every poker player never even lifted a finger to stop this nonsense. Maybe, instead of pointing blame we can take some sort of action and get Poker regulated........... nah that would make too much sense.

BTW, I am not saying they did a great job, but all everyone here does is criticize and nitpick. They at least tried. There is ample evidence to support this.