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Please help the Poker Player’s Alliance tomorrow by calling your Senators:

The U.S. Senate is Seeking to Ban Online Poker
PPA Phone March on Capitol Hill Scheduled for Sept. 12

Dear PPA Member:

Your urgent action is needed! On September 12th the Poker Players Alliance with the support of leading poker blogs and forums, PocketFives.com, Wicked Chops Poker and others are organizing a “Phone March” on Capitol Hill. From 9:00 AM Eastern Time, until 5:30 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 12th, we are asking all PPA members and anyone interested in defending poker to call this toll free number, 800-289-1136 and be patched through to one of your two U.S. Senators in Washington D.C. When you call the 800 number you will hear a recording from fellow PPA member Greg “Fossilman” Raymer and then you will be prompted to enter your five digit zip code so you can be directed, free of charge, to your Senator’s office.

Note: The 800 number will only be active between 9:00 AM EST and 5:30 PM EST on Tuesday September 12.

Key points you should make:

* I am voter in your state.
* I strongly oppose any legislation that would prohibit online poker, and urge the Senator to vote against such legislation.
* Poker is a skill game enjoyed by 70 Million Americans.
* The Senator should seek to regulate online poker much like the government regulates other forms of gaming, like lotteries.
* Prohibitions don’t work. Any legislation that tries to ban online poker will only drive those players underground.
* Again, I urge the Senator to oppose any attempts to prohibit me from playing the great American game of poker on the Internet.

The threat to poker is real. Please forward this information to everyone you know who cares about poker and an American’s freedom to use the Internet. We need everyone possible to make their voice heard on September 12th!

Sincerely,

Michael Bolcerek
President
Poker Players Alliance

If you haven’t already joined the PPA, please consider doing so today:

One of the main reasons for setting up my own domain was to give different websites their own email addresses. If Amazon got hacked or decided to sell their customer list, then I’d know because I’d suddenly start getting non-Amazon mail at amazon-personal-email@mydomain.com. At that point I could set up a mail filter on the server or in my inbox to delete, redirect, or bounce the messages so I’d never have to deal with them, and give the site a new email address, if I so desired.

So far, this scenario has only occurred with EB Games. Since I don’t normally shop there, I haven’t bothered to give them a new address.

Recently, however, both my Doyle’s Room and Poker Source Online addresses have been getting casino spam. This worries me. If they sold out my email address, then they’re bastards, but it’s not exactly risky for me. If they’ve been compromised…

Doyle’s Room may have been compromised in some fashion. After I got the first set of spam messages, I wrote to their customer service via the form on their website. Instead of submitting the message, I got redirected to some casino site I’d never heard of. At this point, I’m not sure what I should be doing next. I’ve changed my 3rd party money account password, but that’s about it.

What about you? Have you been getting some odd spam messages?

This is what I got at my PSO address:

Subject: “Good Luck, Emailusername!” from senders: Yvette, Coleen Ventura, Jeannie, Sherrie, Major, Laverne Courtney, Jolene, and Josiah.

This is what I got at my DR address:

• Great games, Big Winnings, & thousands of players
• * Play atno-cost to see how exciting and easy it is
• * Up to $888 real money to gamble with
• Great games, Big Winnings, & thousands of players
• You’ve been selected to Play at the HI-ROLLER CASIN0!
• Play where the world is Playing
• Your promotional ID is IIZ02525***

Any of these look familiar?