PPA Looks to Add Online Poker Initiatives on State Ballots

Despite its failed attempt to add an online poker initiative to a ballot in Massachusetts in 2010, the Poker Players Alliance plans to look at proposing an initiative in other states.

The PPA, which continues lobbying on the national level for the legalization and regulation of online poker and the eliminiation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, is continuing to look for ways to make in-roads on the state level as well.

PPA Executive Director John Pappas told media outlets that getting an online poker initiative on the ballot in Massachusetts was a difficult task and that similar proposals in other states might be more likely to get on the ballot.

In the PPA’s proposal in Massachusetts, poker would have been legalized in the commonwealth of Massachusetts with a 5% fee collected by the state on all deposits to online poker rooms.

No word on which states are being targeted, more on that as details emerge.