Poker Bill Up For Vote Tomorrow In State Legislature

[MannyIsGod]

Please call your rep. Please urge them to vote YES on this bill.



Urge Your State Lawmaker to Vote "Yes" on HB 222


Dear MANUEL, <img title="Visit www.LegalizeTexasPoker.com" alt="PPA Texas Member Alert" width="175" align="right" border="0" height="179"> (http://capwiz.com/pokerplayersalliance/utr/1/EVVFKLJAXB/ACMXKLJCVU/3312005786)Poker is at a historic moment in Texas. For the first time in the history of the State pro poker legislation will be voted on in the full State House of Representatives!

The Texas House is scheduled to vote on HB 222 tomorrow Friday May 8th which if passed would legalize and regulate games of skill like poker. But to be successful we need your support. We need you to call your State House Representative today!

Call Representative today at Phone and tell them:

***If you get a voice message please leave the message***


You're a constituent, a voter and a poker player
To support HB 222
The State should license and regulate games of skill like poker
You will be watching how they vote on this important bill.

After calling, please click here (http://capwiz.com/pokerplayersalliance/utr/1/EVVFKLJAXB/JBUYKLJCVV/3312005786) and tell us how your call went.

We need you need to call today! Thank you for your continued support in defending the game we all love.

Proud to play,

Mike Lavigne
TX State Director
[email protected]

[DannyT]

I wouldnt bet on it....

[Heath Ledger]

Just move to Vegas problem solved.

[jman3000]

Something like poker being illegal in the first place is fucking retarded. People should be free to piss their money away anyway they see fit.

[MannyIsGod]

I fucking hate the GOP



Dear MANUEL, <img style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 5px; float: right;" title="Visit www.LegalizeTexasPoker.com" alt="PPA Texas Member Alert" width="175" height="179"> (http://capwiz.com/pokerplayersalliance/utr/1/MVNGKLNPGG/MCECKLNPUM/3317385066)Earlier today I informed you that the Texas House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on HB 222 - a bill which would license and regulate poker in the state of Texas. I have since learned that this historic moment is being blocked by the Governor Rick Perry.

Please call the Governor's office today at (800) 252-9600 and tell him:


Allow a vote on HB 222
Texans should be allowed to play Texas Hold'em.
Don't block action on this bill

Please take immediate action!

After calling, please click here (http://capwiz.com/pokerplayersalliance/utr/1/MVNGKLNPGG/GWAQKLNPUN/3317385066) and tell us how your call went.

Click here (http://capwiz.com/pokerplayersalliance/utr/1/MVNGKLNPGG/NRLZKLNPUO/3317385066) to check out the PPA Texas Facebook Page

Proud to play,

Mike Lavigne
TX State Director
[email protected]

[clambake]

gambling is sinful. repent.

[pkbpkb81]

if they would open a poker room in retama it for one would save that place and create jobs, all the bordering stated have already done the is and retama, sam houston and lons star park are in vear real danger of being shut down.

[braeden0613]

Who are the people that actually are against this? I know quite a few Republican conservative Christian types and they couldn't care less.

[MannyIsGod]

Republican Evangelicals.

[exstatic]

angel_luv, and the rest of her "crop"

[pkbpkb81]

Republican Evangelicals.

theirs people on the left and right that are against this and its crazy

[MannyIsGod]

theirs people on the left and right that are against this and its crazy

There are people on the left and right who are against everything. The fact remains that the driving force behind blocking this type of legislation anywhere it comes up is Republican Evangelicals.

[pkbpkb81]

oh nose! not the horse tracks nobody goes to!

Sorry guy,

I was at work when I posted that and didn’t take time to proof reed but you got the point.

[Heath Ledger]

I am currently playing poker as a part time job some 20-30 hours a week and up to 60

Last three weeks

Week 1 +1100
Week 2 -$600
Week 3 + 700

These past few weeks Ive only played in 2-3 sessions per week.
Results are from $1 $2 NL at the Flamingo

In the past 4 months I've had one really horrible week where I was down $1100 for the week. And only 3 weeks out of 16 where I was in the red for the week.

This past week I played in 5 tourneys with two cashes also.
Life is good. I start dealer school Monday so my life will pretty much revolve around playing and dealing poker.

I would be playing a lot more right now however I spent a big chunk of my bankroll on an engagement ring and business has been slow so I've had to spend some of it on bills.

[PixelPusher]

Please call your rep. Please urge them to vote YES on this bill.



Urge Your State Lawmaker to Vote "Yes" on HB 222


Dear MANUEL, <img title="Visit www.LegalizeTexasPoker.com" alt="PPA Texas Member Alert" width="175" align="right" border="0" height="179"> (http://capwiz.com/pokerplayersalliance/utr/1/EVVFKLJAXB/ACMXKLJCVU/3312005786)Poker is at a historic moment in Texas. For the first time in the history of the State pro poker legislation will be voted on in the full State House of Representatives!

The Texas House is scheduled to vote on HB 222 tomorrow Friday May 8th which if passed would legalize and regulate games of skill like poker. But to be successful we need your support. We need you to call your State House Representative today!

Call Representative today at Phone and tell them:

***If you get a voice message please leave the message***


You're a constituent, a voter and a poker player
To support HB 222
The State should license and regulate games of skill like poker
You will be watching how they vote on this important bill.

After calling, please click here (http://capwiz.com/pokerplayersalliance/utr/1/EVVFKLJAXB/JBUYKLJCVV/3312005786) and tell us how your call went.

We need you need to call today! Thank you for your continued support in defending the game we all love.

Proud to play,

Mike Lavigne
TX State Director
[email protected]






I'd only be half-kidding if said you really should consider becoming a lobbyist for the Poker Gaming community.

[FaithInOne]

Poker lobbyist would be a badass job Manny. Look into it.

[MannyIsGod]

I'd only be half-kidding if said you really should consider becoming a lobbyist for the Poker Gaming community.

Yeah no. Poker is a means to an end for me, and while I strongly believe it should be legal for many reasons, In a few years I'm done with it for a long ass time.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Just move to Vegas problem solved.
that or just get a job if you suck at it :D

[pkbpkb81]

I don't give a fuck bout your spelling or your grammar bitch

it was your logic that was whack!

Horse Racing has been strong in Texas for 100's of years and if something isent done it will die, and putting poker rooms in at ratma is the best way to save it. I don't see any thing whack (what are you 13 using whack really) about that.

[JoeChalupa]

We always watch the live racing when we hit Retama. We love that place!!!

[JudynTX]

We always watch the live racing when we hit Retama. We love that place!!!

Retama just needs to add slot machines and I'm so there. :hat

[pkbpkb81]

[QUOTE=4cc;3383096]so horse racing is so popular in texas that it needs poker or else it will die

thanks shalhoub

nobody at retama even watches the actual horses run anyway, they just sit inside and bet on races being run elsewhere[/QUOT

your right and the reson is the prize money for the races there is low so they dont get the better horese

[pkbpkb81]

if not retama where there is already gambling where would you put poker and slots

[CosmicCowboy]

so horse racing is so popular in texas that it needs poker or else it will die

thanks shalhoub

nobody at retama even watches the actual horses run anyway, they just sit inside and bet on races being run elsewhere

The problem is that Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico all have other gambling at their racetracks and with that extra revenue they can afford to have larger horse race purses (like 3, 4, or 5 times as much) as the Texas tracks can offer and still make money...the guys that come for the horse races end up dropping money in the casinos and one helps the other...

A lot of Texas born and bred racehorses never race in Texas because the race purses are so wimpy...they just aren't worth risking getting a horse hurt.

[pkbpkb81]

it's not about the proud racehorse tradition in texas. it's about gambling

and i would never want texas following the lead of louisiana oklahoma and new mexico

your right a state as big as texas should have done it first