PPA Head: “Hundreds Of Millions” Due In Online Player Refunds

There are a lot of people who are worried whether they are ever going to be receiving their money out of some of the online poker sites that were the subject of the Department of Justice’s attack on the online poker industry. They are players of all levels, and one of them is the head of the Poker Players Alliance, perhaps the leading advocacy group for online poker players. John Pappas said that while he is hardly affected on a personal level, with just $56 in an account, he acknowledges that a lot of players have a lot more at stake in what could turn out to be the lowest percentage game of all. “It would be easy to say that tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, have kind of been held up in limbo here because of the DOJ (Department of Justice) action,” he told USA Today. Pappas is in the business of organizing poker players, showing enough in the way of strength to push bills that would bring online poker in particular under some form of government regulation. You can read the story here.