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02-06-2012 , 12:23 PM

#4951

bpk616

adept

Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,044

done for today gooooo

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02-06-2012 , 12:28 PM

#4952

kennabot

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 344

done

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02-06-2012 , 12:35 PM

#4953

dangerfish

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,971

Done

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02-06-2012 , 01:31 PM

#4954

KEW

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 4,139

Done

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02-06-2012 , 02:21 PM

#4955

LT22

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 12,842

seems like participation is up lately!

Suggestion to Rich: Incorporate @PPADailyAction Twitter account into the weekly email to PPA members. Ex) Want to fight for poker rights? Follow @PPADailyAction on Twitter to participate in the plan! (INSERT LINK)

If you include the account name and suggestion to follow it in the weekly email, followers and participation rates will grow exponentially IMO.

Some people don't check poker forums every day or have quit participating in poker forums altogether, but they might update their Twitter religiously. The Twitter account is really the easiest way to reach a massive amount of people.

increasing followers will increase participation rates b/c they will be exposed to the action plan at least once per day on Twitter feed, whereas they might not bother to check 2p2/DC/P5s. If people see a reminder, they will be like "oh, I haven't participated today, maybe I'll do that quick." There is also a sense of ease to the Twitter account. I link directly to each day's action plan instead of linking to the 1st post. For example, followers can go through the tweets on the PPADailyAction profile to directly find action plans for the last few days rather than having to dig through threads on 2p2/DC/P5s. We need to make sure people realize this is an efficient process that is also easy.

EDIT: A YouTube video on the PPA channel describing how/why to participate in the plans would also be good (unless you don't want to organize FoF, etc). Since the technology boom, we have become a visually stimulated and lazy society. We like Twitter/YouTube/technology!

Last edited by LT22; 02-06-2012 at 02:50 PM.

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02-06-2012 , 02:47 PM

#4956

TBadr

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 5,669

done

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02-06-2012 , 02:54 PM

#4957

yankeedawg

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 251

Done 2/06/2012

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02-06-2012 , 03:01 PM

#4958

Jomaha8

adept

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,073

Done and Done.

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02-06-2012 , 03:06 PM

#4959

Black Talon

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 134

Done!

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02-06-2012 , 03:12 PM

#4960

GJS70

Fighting the Good Fight

Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 5,750

Monday's plan done.

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02-06-2012 , 03:16 PM

#4961

Precise_

journeyman

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 257

done

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02-06-2012 , 03:30 PM

#4962

BrassMonkey

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,565

Done

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02-06-2012 , 03:37 PM

#4963

jonesse

grinder

Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 456

done 2/6

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02-06-2012 , 04:12 PM

#4964

StarkNaked

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,207

done 2-6-12

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02-06-2012 , 05:24 PM

#4965

RiverAnAce

old hand

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1,227

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kris Kristofferson

See, this is actually more along the lines of what I'd like to see. I just don't feel right about petitioning people to regulate/tax/etc poker because I feel it could be a huge nightmare that ruins the game and the game is already bad enough with the rake model. I'd LOVE to see poker have the same status as other skill games, some even card games, which also don't happen to get raked to death nor need legislation and regulation for every single thing they do. Even if we were to just get poker carved out of the UIGEA like fantasy betting was so easily able to attain, it would make me feel much more confident that there would be less threat to destroy the game and more competition which will help the rake.

I absolutely hate the rake model and think it's under handed and could be attacked from a consumer advocate angle, but I fear we are over looking any and all of those types of things just to get something passed asap. I also fear this is the time to get things right and once it's done it'll be just as hard to change as it is now.

I really really am not trying to troll the thread or be a debbie downer or slow any momentum. I think everyone here who is donating their efforts are awesome. These are just concerns I have and I feel like poker is already at it's worse so it cant get any worse and I wish we discussed some other aspects of concern with poker rather than just the legalization and taxation of it (which they surely are focusing on and is a huge plus, but I don't want the game to be a huge target for profitability desires only)

I just wish I knew why it was so easy for home poker, other skill games, fantasy to be legalized etc and why this has to be so scary. I think it's because it's larger and people know it, but that's what scares me, because all they see are $$ signs and people begging to give them those. How did fantasy and skill games get passed without daily action threads and threats from the DOJ and fights with the christian coalition etc? It just seems like it was so easy for them and whatever it is they did to clear themselves from this scorn and threat, we need to do.

I thought we had some leverage to get more before. Then the DOJ showed me how easy it was to remove that leverage. Our main leverage was all the billions going over seas. Without Stars and Tilt that has dropped to a fraction. I now think our only hope for fair rake is competition. What I don’t want to see is someone with control over the rake that can put us in prison for playing on another site.

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02-06-2012 , 05:56 PM

#4966

kowboys4

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 9,764

done

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02-06-2012 , 06:41 PM

#4967

pianospike

adept

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,081

done

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02-06-2012 , 06:49 PM

#4968

LastLife

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 4,593

Done

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02-06-2012 , 07:17 PM

#4969

acecatcher26

irresponsibly optimistic

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 677

GOGOGOGOGOGGO

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02-06-2012 , 08:27 PM

#4970

tinktastik

stranger

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 13

done 2/6

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02-06-2012 , 09:05 PM

#4971

jdgambler22

newbie

Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 14

done 2/6

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02-06-2012 , 09:06 PM

#4972

Commodore64c

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 236

Facebooked & Tweeted - 02/06/2012

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02-06-2012 , 09:10 PM

#4973

sluggger5x

John Connor of poker

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 5,592

done

Hope to see some new faces in here every day!

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02-06-2012 , 10:49 PM

#4974

KZMU

grinder

Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 447

Done!!!

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02-06-2012 , 11:03 PM

#4975

Rich Muny

Former PPA President

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 28,010

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Originally Posted by sluggger5x

done

Hope to see some new faces in here every day!

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