The Poker Player Alliance certainly deserves praise for their hard work on be half of online casinos.  But many would argue that they are going about things the wrong way and failing to prioritize appropriately. 

The most recent victory claimed by the Poker Player Alliance is that fact that a South Carolina court declared that poker was a game of skill.  The Poker Player Alliance has been collecting a list of states that consider poker a fame of skill.  The long term tactic is that once poker is considered a game of skill is will be legal to offer sites that allow Americans to wager on poker games.

Unfortunately that is a slow process and there are more important matters facing both online poker and online casinos.  United States law enforcement is putting the squeeze on payment processors and very soon it will be demanded that banks deny any transaction from online casinos.  That will damage the industry in they United States severely.

In the United Kingdom, poker is still considered a game of chance.  However, the game is still legalized and regulated.  Most games at online casinos will never be considered games of skill, because they simply are not so it may be a wasted effort for the Poker Player Alliance to seek this skill based status.  

The Poker Player Alliance needs to focus on getting the online gambling industry as a whole accepted and regulated.  The may need to stray from this strategy that believes online poker will be an easier pill to swallow for politicians than online casinos.