Here's the latest mail alert sent out from the PPA:

 A representative of the Los Angeles Commerce Casino -- one of the largest poker rooms in North America -- testified before Congress in opposition to federal legislation to license and regulate Internet poker.

  The PPA is asking the poker community to speak out and tell the Commerce Casino to support H.R. 2267 and abandon its misguided effort for a California-only Internet poker monopoly. Join Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey and dozens of the leading professional players who have signed an "Open Letter" to the Commerce Casino.

  Simply go to www.playersbeforeprofits.com, where you too can sign the Open Letter. You can also Tweet, email and call the Commerce Casino to express your disappointment in their position.

  Contact the Commerce Casino today. Our opponents – in whatever form they take—cannot expect to freeroll us when their actions directly harm poker players and the future of sensible legislation to establish licensed Internet poker for all Americans.

  Thanks for standing with us as we fight for your game.

Proud to Play,

John A. Pappas 

Word is out that the Boss Network poker sites are leaving Canada and it's thousands of players. Well known poker room PokerKings will no longer allow Canadian players starting on September 24. According to the Poker Affiliate Bible, Boss’s new name is GTech BTW and ALL Boss/IPN websites on that network will blocking Canadians.

This may leave many wondering where they can go to from there. While many Canadian players may already have the poker rooms, here at the "House" we suggest Carbon Poker or DoylesRoom. While on seperate networks (Merge Gaming Network for Carbon and Cake Network for Doyles) and nothing alike, they both have bent over backwards through the years to remain friendly to players from all over the world....even those of us frome the U.S.

Not only are both rooms very reliable and safe places to play, but when downloading from here at the House of Poker Blues you get a percentage of your rakeback paid back into your players account. That is like being paid to play! For every bit of rake you pay the room, you will get back 35% of that at Carbon by using code "POKERBLUES" when depositing or 33% rakeback at Doyleroom by using code "HPB110B".

So while Boss leaving is a bit of bad news for our Canadian friends it is not the end of online poker, there are still plentry of nice places to play their favourite poker games at online. Both of the rooms even offer casino games for those that like to gamble occasionaly.

Doyles Room now has 8 members signed to the Brunson Ten team. These are some of the finest young online poker players in the industry, picked by the lengend himself, Doyle Brunson.

The newest member is the 21 year old 2010 WSOP #52 Event winner, Dan "djk123" Kelly.  Along with him are Zachary “Crazy Zachary” Clark, Steve "gboro780" Gross,  Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis, Amit “amak316” Makhija, Chris “Moorman1” Moorman, and Dani “ansky” Stern.

If you think you've got what it takes to play these young guns you can at Doyles Room. Players can enter the Beat The Brunson 10 tournament every other Monday at 9:00pm ET to try and take down these young legends-in-the-making.

Everyone's a Target

The tournament costs $10+10+2 to enter. The first $10 will go to the prize pool and the other $10 will make you a marked man or woman, just like everyone else in the tournament. For every player you pick off, you win $10. Pick off five players, that's $50. Ten players get you $100. And so on.

For every member of The Brunson 10 you knock out of the Beat The Brunson 10 tournament, you'll win $500!

$1,000 Champion Bonus

Win the The Brunson 10 tournament and you get an extra bonus on top of your winnings, $1,000 in extra cash !

You can download the room for free, and get not only a 110% bonus, but also get 33% rakeback paid each week into your players account by clicking here and using bonus code "HPB110B" when depositing.

Most online poker players know that it was the Republican Party that signed the UIGEA into law in October of 06, thereby making it harder to fund our games of choice. It also lead to our troubles of withdrawing winnings, and in some cases a lot of the poker rooms even banning the American Poker Player. The UIGEA stripped the American Player of our freedoms to make our own choices.

Some may even recall that it was the Republican Party that included a prohibition on Internet gaming in its 2008 policy platform! We must remind the GOP leadership that millions of Americans want them to support our poker rights and not continue with these misguided prohibitions.

Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives have asked the American people to submit ideas through a new website on ways to keep our freedoms here in this great country of ours.

Greg "Fossilman" Raymer has posted a comment on AmericaSpeakingOut.com calling on Congress to ensure poker players freedoms by licensing and regulating online poker. We need everyone's help, so vote for Greg's comment and help it become one of the top – if not the top – issue on AmericaSpeakingOut.com. It just takes a few minutes.

1. Go to the PPA shortcut: http://go.theppa.org/register1 to create an account (requires an email address). Note: to login using Facebook, go to step 3.
2. After submitting your information, a confirmation email will be sent to the registered email address. In the email, click on the account confirmation link.
3. Go to the PPA shortcut: http://go.theppa.org/fossilman and click the "thumbs up" icon. You can also search on the site for the keyword "fossilman". Share your own thoughts in the comments section by clicking "Post Response" and a box will appear.

Greg gives some additional actions you can take to support the great American game of poker on www.americaspeakingout.com:

• Go to the PPA shortcut: http://go.theppa.org/poker1 or go to the search box on the upper right hand corner of the page and search for "poker".
  • Click the "thumbs up" icons on the pro-poker submissions.
  • Add comments supporting poker.
• Forward this email to all your friends and ask them to vote and submit their requests!

 Together, we can make a difference by telling Congress to protect our freedom!

Proud to play,
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer
2004 WSOP Champ and PPA Member .

A Mustang Convertible is still up for grabs at PokerStars, and players can get their hands on this smoking hot ride with an exclusive Summer Celebration – Drive in Style First Deposit offer.

  Players only have to make a real-money deposit between now and June 13 (19:30 ET) using code ‘Summer’ and they will will receive a ticket to play in the Summer Celebration – Drive in Style Mustang Convertible event running on June 13, 19:30 ET.

In addition, new depositers also receive a 100% up to $600 first time bonus !  From the time of the first deposit, clients have 90 days to make up to 2 further deposits to take advantage of the full bonus.

This special offer and these tournaments are only open to players from the USA and Canada. Players can find all of the qualifiers located under the 'Tourney' > 'Regional' tab in the PokerStars software.