Poker Players Alliance

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Who would have guessed that Bryn Mawr is fast becoming a poker hotbed?

For the second straight year, the upscale Main Line suburb has produced a big-money winner in the World Series of Poker.

Businessman Eric Brooks, a cofounder and former director of the investing powerhouse Susquehanna International Group, collected $415,856 and a champion’s gold bracelet from a Las Vegas seven-card stud table Monday.

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The 39th World Series of Poker got going in earnest Friday, and perhaps the most common question pondered about the game is this:

Luck or skill, which is it? The obvious answer, of course, is:

Both.

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Every good business survives by reaching out to its target audience. You have to market your products to your customers and show them you’re the best around. The Poker Players Alliance went straight to its audience this past week, the 6,300 participants in the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, to show the poker world what a class act it has become. Bringing a group of staff that included former three-time Senator from New York and current PPA Chairman Alfonse D’Amato, the organization hit the ground running at the Rio. It’s paid off recently as well. The Poker Players Alliance has grown to well over 600,000 members, a number that has ballooned rapidly in recent days. Not too bad for an industry group that stood at 100,000 members last fall.
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LAS VEGAS (July 18, 2006) — Invigorated by the recent federal legislation that would prohibit playing online poker in the United States, the Poker Players Alliance (http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/) is hosting a rally/cocktail party in Las Vegas July 28 for poker players interested in defending the game of poker on the Internet.
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