World Poker Association
Got an email today from Kenna James mentioning the WPA (World Poker Association) which has its official launch is this week.
Here's what Kenna had to say: "This player association is LONG overdue and needs your support. There is no one that I respect or believe in more then Jesse Jones (who runs it) to be the one to establish this organization. It is NON-PROFIT except for Jesse in which case it is NEGATIVE profit and a labor of love. Please show your support by becoming a member and encouraging your friends also. Check out the site today at www.wpapoker.com
I just thought this was interesting, especially given the content of Wednesday's show.
It's something to look at and think about over the weekend.
Christopher Cosenza is co-host of the longest running poker podcast on the planet, Ante Up! He started playing poker seriously in 2003 and his favorite players are Phil Ivey and Kenna James, though he tends to act like Phil Hellmuth if you make a bad play against him.
Scott Long, Ante Up!'s other co-host, is the author of the monthly Bet on It column in tbt*. He began gambling way too young (don't tell the fuzz!) and in the seventh grade, named his state "Gambleland" for a school project (State Animal? Loan shark, of course).
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Posted by: Erwin Blonk | March 25, 2006 at 01:36 PM
The WPA sounds good to me. There's a few thing to put right, both in the perception of poker as pure gambling (which it is not) and the legislation.Over here in The Netherlands there are only 5 places where you can play poker (we have 17 million cloggies living here) and online pokersites cannot advertise, let alone set up shop here.And fish like me need microlimit poker, which you can't find offline.
Posted by: Naqoyqatsi | March 25, 2006 at 01:38 PM