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Just curious how many people have taken advantage of this Party-PPA offer and joined up. If you did, were your bonus terms 7x and 30 days?

For those who don't know, PPA is a US interest group org that's trying to get off the ground to "keep poker legal" in all forms, online, club, neighborhood games, etc. A longtime LV gaming attorney named Anthony Cabot is leading the start-up. It has a good start on fund-raising thanks to the online poker sites, but it needs live, breathing, tax-paying, voting, individual US citizen members to increase its clout with legislators.

This is obviously in PP's interest so they've worked out a deal where they're quietly offering a $100 bonus to new members. When you sign up at PPA, you get a 10-digit registration code and if you enter that code when making a deposit at Party, you get a 20% up to $100 bonus. Mine had a 7x raked hand requirment and 30 days to clear.

I don't think there is a web page on Party that formally describes the bonus, but several of us have gotten the message after making another deposit. Some have even signed up at PPA on faith and entered the number at Party and it worked, so it appears you don't have to get the offer first. I guess Party could discontinue at any time, though, so you could email them before paying the membership fee if you want to be sure.

Now, given that it costs $15 to join versus $100 bonus, any properly trained 2+2 bonus whore will do this just for the free cash. But the fact is, we NEED an organization like this to protect our right to play onine poker, so this really is a win-win situation.

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I joined, and the $80 is cleared an in the bank. Thank you PPA.

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I'm definitly going to do this within a day or two. Sounds like a good deal all around.

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I joined and got the bonus

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Worked for me, bonus cleared no problem. Received the PPA shirt, pin and membership card a couple days ago.

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i did as well

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how do you sign up for this thing? sorry maybe i'm dense?

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Anyone else have a problem with the fact that this is really just party using players to funnel money to a lobbying group that it otherwise would probably not be able to legally give money to? I'm all about a lobbying group for poker players, but not one that is just a pawn for the giant online poker rooms. And especially not one that is a pawn of Party.

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I joined.

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Indeed.

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I joined. Have not deposited for the bonus yet.

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I think in this case, Party's interests are fairly close to the interests of online poker players.

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I joined, got a full membership and t-shirt with a coupon for $15, sot he bonus was +$85 for me.

Free money and a free t-shirt and hopefully I get perks/info from PPA, definitely a good deal.

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I joined

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i'm from europe, but it is for a good cause... [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Joined!

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Joined, got the bonus, waiting on T-shirt to add to my degenerate gambler collection. Win/win for all, imo.

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joined and bonus completed!

...i took the $15 option...


those of you with the other options let us know if there is any difference other than the t-shirt...?


cheers,
sean

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A lobbying group that pays its members to join? Of course I wasted no time in joining. I would expect this to become one of the most respected lobbying groups on Capitol Hill.

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I haven't joined because i have another bonus to clear that only has a few days, but it is worthwhile, even if Party appears to be supporting it.

Right now, it seems to be the perfect time to admit we like poker. Until recently it was not necessarily a great idea to have your name on a list of poker players. The IRS seems to have access to that type of information without it being the "silver platter" or self-incrimination type of deal.

There is one place that is actually working to get the IRS to treat recreational gamblers more fairly, but they don't pay you to sign up, lol. However, right now you can still help the cause anonymously.

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I joined for $20 (I felt like the utility of the t-shirt was >$5). The $100 bonus was 7x and I cleared it in a few hours this weekend.

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how do you sign up for this thing? sorry maybe i'm dense?

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Go here. Fill out the form and transfer $15 from neteller. Write down the 10-digit registration code that comes back. Go to Party. Deposit $500. Type in your 10-digit registration code in the bonus field. Receive $100 bonus subject to hand play requirement.

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I did it...

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Anyone else have a problem with the fact that this is really just party using players to funnel money to a lobbying group that it otherwise would probably not be able to legally give money to? I'm all about a lobbying group for poker players, but not one that is just a pawn for the giant online poker rooms. And especially not one that is a pawn of Party.

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This is a special case where Party's interests and our interests directly coincide. We both would benefit if onine poker were made explicitly legal, and would suffer if the US gov tried to make it explicitly illegal. And Party does already give money to this org directly. But what it can't do is give US voters and that's what it is paying us for. PPA will have more influence if it has a sizeable membership of individual US voters, and that helps both party and us poker players.

Now, if all we do is sign up for the bonus and nothing else, the influence we add will be minimal. That's why the org needs people like you to sign up, jman, because you sound like you'll do more than just sit there and let Party run things - after you sign up and earn your bonus, get involved in the organization.

For example, I just sent this Cabot guy an email telling him about 2+2 and suggesting that he add a forum to the web site where we can ask questions and talk about legal issues that concern us. Anybody else that has any suggestions for how to run this thing, maybe start with sending him an email.

Also, look around the site. Most of the info so far seems to be about cases where the friendly neighborhood game gets busted by the cops. That doesn't strike me as a hot button issue for Party. I don't think they're a pawn of Party, but just an ally whose interests run in the same direction.

http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/keep.html

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how do you sign up for this thing? sorry maybe i'm dense?

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Go here. Fill out the form and transfer $15 from neteller. Write down the 10-digit registration code that comes back. Go to Party. Deposit $500. Type in your 10-digit registration code in the bonus field. Receive $100 bonus subject to hand play requirement.

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Do we need to fill in a promotional code?

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how do you sign up for this thing? sorry maybe i'm dense?

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Go here. Fill out the form and transfer $15 from neteller. Write down the 10-digit registration code that comes back. Go to Party. Deposit $500. Type in your 10-digit registration code in the bonus field. Receive $100 bonus subject to hand play requirement.

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Do we need to fill in a promotional code?

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Yes...you put in your number they send you in an email...as a good whore I'm there...I'm still looking for a poker site that supplies socks for player points and my wardrobe will never be in jeopardy

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Who are you getting pants from?

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Anyone else have a problem with the fact that this is really just party using players to funnel money to a lobbying group that it otherwise would probably not be able to legally give money to? I'm all about a lobbying group for poker players, but not one that is just a pawn for the giant online poker rooms. And especially not one that is a pawn of Party.

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Yeah, but they're paying us $85 to funnel $15-$20. Not a big deal to me.....

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I joined the PPA....I didn't know about the PP bonus, but I did it because I have to protect my sh*t [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Enjoined!

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Go here. Fill out the form and transfer $15 from neteller. Write down the 10-digit registration code that comes back. Go to Party. Deposit $500. Type in your 10-digit registration code in the bonus field. Receive $100 bonus subject to hand play requirement.

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Do we need to fill in a promotional code?

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Yes...you put in your number they send you in an email...as a good whore I'm there...I'm still looking for a poker site that supplies socks for player points and my wardrobe will never be in jeopardy

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