Mike Sexton Takes up the Good Fight

Mike Sexton, winner of this years’s World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, will reportedly set out on a campaign against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Best known as the on-air voice of the World Poker Tour and also known as the “Ambassador of Poker,” is said to be starting out in New York this week.

Sexton said that the campaign was actually started by PartyGaming, for which he is a spokesperson. Sexton said Party will be airing advertisements in support of poker players and asked him to help. Funny how Party didn’t do much of anything before the bill was passed by Congress, but now they decide to do so (at the same time, I get the sense that U.S. legislators would not have cared that an offshore “illegal” gambling company was upset about the bill).

Sexton said well-respected poker pro, Barry Greenstein, and Poker Players Alliance president, Michael Bolcerek, will be joining him on the campaign.

Said Sexton, “The mission is obviously to voice the displeasure with this bill that has been passed by Congress, and to speak up for the rights of poker players, and their right to play online poker.”

Word has it that President Bush will be signing the bill into law on Friday.

Originally published October 9, 2006