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Free Cash For Christmas!

 

We are getting into the spirit of giving this holiday season by offering you an opportunity to play for a share of $15,500 in On Demand Freerolls this December! That’s right….from December 11th to 25th we will host 15 consecutive $1,000 prize pool On Demand Freerolls! Each day of the 15 Days of Christmas we will be hosting a $1,000 On Demand Freeroll with a registration start time of 6:15 pm ET. As soon as 1,000 people register for the tourney play will begin. Each event will allow for only 1 hour of late registration so be sure to secure your seat early to take your free shot at some extra cash for the holidays!

Veteran Appreciation Holiday Party

THIS EVENT JUST GOT CANCELLED BY THE VA HOSPITAL DUE TO WEATHER - IT IS RESCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22 AT 11:00-4:00 PM

December, 22nd @ 11:00AM there will be a holiday party for our local military from the Dallas area at 3825 Duck Creek Rd. Garland Texas.  We will be going to the Dallas VA. Hospital and picking up several veterans each with their own issues and we will be helping in what ever ways we can.

How you can help.

Please come out and join us for an hour or two or stay for the day.  Bring either a food donation or clothes for these vets.  A lot of them are homeless and could use things like boots, jackets, coats, gloves, blankets, carry food such as potted meat and crackers, canned meals such as soups, ravioli, spahgetti, etc.  This will be a great time and fun event for all as well as helping out those that really need and deserve our help.

Thank you.

P4AC POKER TAKES 1ST IN ACR FREEROLL

Charity Poker Tournament November 2nd Benefiting Nine Year Old Cancer Patient

Please come out and support our efforts to help this young boy with cancer Nov. 2nd at The Elks Lodge 3825 Duck Creek Drive Garland Texas.

$40.00 buy in splits $25 to pot $15 to charity.  Complimentary food break will be included.

With 100 players pot will be over $2,500. (Max. Players 100).

Call Terry at 214-668-8836 for more info or to RSVP your seat and insure your spot at the tables.

Sep. 26 micro tournies

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Final Results Below

This is the hand that put me out.

This game had a great final table with some real nice and real good players.  It was nice meeting you DOJsnitch and ricprof.  Also, I missed the last hand.  I don't know how it finally ended but I can say this....it was an up down battle.  Good Game....til next we meet on the felt.

POKER PLAYERS' OFFICIAL TO DISCUSS WEB GAMING LEGALIZATION

24 June 2013

By Howard Stutz

24 June 2013
By Howard Stutz

For the past few months, Poker Players Alliance Executive Director John Pappas has been running up the frequent flyer mileage.

With federal Internet poker legalization prospects seemingly at a standstill, Pappas focused efforts of the 1.2 million-member lobbying organization on various individual state legislative activities.

Debate over Internet gaming and online poker surfaced this year in California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.

Pappas is spending part of the weekend at the World Series of Poker in the organization’s booth inside the Rio’s Convention Center. He plans to discuss the various online gaming legalization efforts with the tournament’s attendees.

“We cut our lobbying spend in D.C. pretty dramatically,” Pappas said Friday. “There is no reason to spend a lot of money when the outcome is uncertain.”

But now, Internet gaming talk on Capitol Hill is once again heating up.

At least two pieces of Internet gaming legislation could be find their way to the floors of Congress before the July Fourth recess. Pappas, while hopeful there will be discussions, isn’t optimistic about the outcome.

“Congress has a lot of challenges, and having this issue rise to the top of things they tackle in the next 18 months is hard to believe,” Pappas said.

Rep. Peter King, R-NY, submitted legislation earlier this month that would legalize all forms of Internet wagering by establishing a federal licensing and regulatory system.

Meanwhile, Pappas said Rep. Joe Barton,. R-Texas, is expected to introduce online poker legislation — similar to a bill he sponsored in 2012 — by next week.

Pappas thought the King bill wouldn’t fly, primarily because it addresses gambling activities other than poker. The “permissiveness” of the bill was “excellent” from a policy perspective, he thought, but might entrench gambling expansion opponents.

Pappas, who has spent more than 14 years in Washington D.C. in both lobbying and political consulting, said a poker-only bill might be more palatable to federal lawmakers.

However, he is concerned state efforts could weaken Washington’s position on the issue.

“We favor a federal a solution,” Pappas said. “That is what the players want and that is what the (gaming) industry as a whole wants.”

Earlier this week, Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson, in an opinion article on the Forbes.com website, advocated a federal ban of all online wagering activities. Pappas challenged many of Adelson’s points through his own commentary on the PocketFives.com website.

“He makes certain claims as if they were fact,” Pappas wrote. “However, there is no evidence whatsoever that the introduction of an online gaming regime would negatively affect the offline casino industry.”

The Poker Players Alliance is chaired by former Republican U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato of New York. The organization has state directors in most of the 50 states.

Nevada and New Jersey have both legalized Internet poker — New Jersey has legalized full-on Internet gaming.

Station Casinos-owned Ultimate Poker launched in Nevada on April 30, becoming the first regulated pay-to-play Internet poker website in the U.S. Other sites, including a World Series of Poker real money website, are waiting in the wings. New Jersey hopes to have its first online gaming websites operational by Thanksgiving.

Other states legalizing the activity could lessen any federal push.

“Once you get some of these bigger states, that are not viewed as a traditional gaming state, then momentum can build,” Pappas said. “There are those in Congress who are concerned about the expansion of gaming. Doing nothing, however, could lead to a bigger expansion of gaming.”

Pappas believes California and Pennsylvania could legalize Internet gaming by next year. If that happens, he said states would begin forming interstate compacts to pool players and share resources and revenues.

How the compacts would work, however, is still subject to debate.

“The real issues need to get sorted out,” Pappas said.