Even though the California Legislature has finished the 2013 session without ruling on Internet poker and online gambling legislation in the Golden State, many industry analysts and poker proponents both in California and elsewhere in the United States believe early 2014 passage of an Internet poker Bill is a foregone conclusion. John Pappas is the Executive Director of the nonprofit Poker Players Alliance (PPA) in the US, a local organization with powerful backers which has been a vocal proponent for legal Internet poker in the United States for some time.
