On Thursday December 3, 2009, the House Financial Services Committee will be holding a very important hearing on H.R. 2267, Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act. If passed into law, H.R. 2267 will allow for licensed and regulated online games of skill such as poker in the United States. In short, it will protect your right to play the game you love online.

This hearing is a very important step in battle to protect poker. For that reason, I am asking you to take a few minutes right now to do three things:

1. Call your member of Congress, [% recip.US_REP({ifEmpty='Representative'}) %], at [% recip.US_REP_CAP_PHONE({ifEmpty='Phone'}) %]  today and tell him/her that:

• I am a poker player, a constituent and a voter
• I respectfully request that you attend this very important hearing on H.R. 2267 on December 3, 2009
• I expect you to support H.R. 2267 to not only protect your right to play poker, but to better protect consumers as well as tap billions of dollars of federal and state revenue currently going uncollected.

2. Email your member of Congress telling them why this bill is important to you and why they need to support H.R. 2267. Feel free to use this sample email to get you started.

3. Tweet your member of Congress. PPA’s Tweet for Poker website makes it easy to contact your representative via Twitter and ask them to support #H.R. 2267 in committee on December 3, 2009.

Taking action today is the most important thing that a dedicated and concerned poker player like you can do to support online poker in the US. The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) can’t do this alone. Please take action today! A successful hearing on Thursday will hopefully lead to a Committee vote in support of poker, so we need your help today!

To watch the hearing live on Dec.3rd at 10am EST, click here.

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