For a long time The Poker Players Alliance has asserted that there is a difference between the online casino industry and online poker gambling. The Alliance has looked for legislation to legalize online gambling in the United States proving that online poker is a skilled game that has some element of chance. And though the PPA has also upheld legislation at the federal level that could legalize internet casinos that would operate on a regulated base in the United States, the PPA is most concerned with legalizing online poker. Recent situation in Kentucky when Steve Beshear, Governor of the state, decided to confiscate the domain names of several online poker gambling sites was much criticized by the PPA.

John Pappas, Executive Director of the PPA, has recently released a statement on the current situation in Kentucky that outlined the PPA’s position on the proposed anti-online gambling legislation in the state. Pappas said that the Kentucky’s actions were not only extreme, but causeless in that it could be proven clearly that poker is really a skilled game and not chance and thereby online poker sites should not have been part of the said action.

This sentiment goes well together with the primary argument of PPA that internet casinos and poker sites are two different entities to which different rules and regulations should be applied. The Franklin Circuit Court Judge has extended the judgment till 7th October in view of all of the juridical action and arguments in support of the online gambling industry rights.

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