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Originally Posted by ChaosReigns
Your last suggestion would be like throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Look, if I wanted to jettison everything I would be piling on with that fool DQ.
I don't.
What do I want? An honest answer as to why the PPA is failing to engage new allies. I will go so far as to say with FTP and Stars out of the US market, the IGC as funding for the PPA is likely over. Is ANYONE debating that?
O.K., on to point 2............player-funding for the PPA would be ideal, but the PPA nixed that idea in 2006-07. *IF* resurrected, it is a long term goal.
Point 3. Ipoker legislation is close, but anything the PPA can accomplish as-is, has already been done. Legislators know a lot of people play, and not very many are adamantly opposed. Those same people know ipoker is a big pot of money. Where they start stalling is on deciding who gets to be at the handle-end of all that money. Deciding who gets to win is 90% of politics, and no is sure who to make the winner.
So, the question is where to throw what weight we have where. What does the PPA have? Raw numbers. That is about it. We donate pitifully. We organize well below what we could. The only way to meaningfully be in the poker argument going forward is in conjunction with a money-source. There ARE companies and groups willing to work on this, and pump money into it.
Someone has to ask why the PPA isn't engaging. I know I threw a bomb. If I really wanted to just "muck it up", PX, I would have tossed it in Legislation or, god forbid, NVG. No, I put it here in the lowest-traffic place on 2p2 that is relevant. Most of us want the same thing, but if no one questions why we are passing up EV, how do we get anywhere? I think the conflict-of-interest point is relevant, and maybe the PPA is at a crossroads where if it does NOT jump ship from the IGC, game over for any chance of players having input.
Why won't anyone say, "Hey, we called Caesar's today, and offered to join forces to work on Capitol Hill, but they said **** off." Likely answer: Pappas
works for IGC, and might want a job somewhere else when they can't pay the light bill next year, so he never made the call.