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As the heat around poker politics continues to rise, we in Texas are fighting the good fight too. Online poker was the ONLY "legal" way to play poker for real money without having to get in a car and cross state lines somewhere.

This is the latest op-ed from the Texas Poker PAC:

Those of us in the struggle to regulate Poker and bring it into modern times in states like Texas are often fond of saying that Poker used to be relegated to "smokey back rooms" and played by "road gamblers" etc. This is a useful juxtaposition to the modern day televised game and freerolls in bars across the nation.

Unfortunately, when you make poker as illegal crystal meth you get some of the same symptoms:

(from yesterday's San Antonio Express News)

Masked men break in, shoot poker player

The beautiful Joanna Krupa has been knocked out.

I read with interest the post by Iggy a couple of days ago about the fight to protect poker in Washington DC and across the country. He was dead on and I especially appreciated his enumeration of the arguments to use when speaking and working to this end.

Here in Texas, we have a similar fight going on. We are behind much of the country though in terms of what poker is allowed by law.

Below is an op-ed i recently wrote for a Dallas weekly sports magazine. I'll let it speak for itself. Feel free to email me (info@texaspokerpac.com) if you have any questions or comments.

Thanks to Dan and Party Poker for the opportunity to plug for the cause...