[Tuff_Fish]

OK guys, here is how it is.

I am not going to convince any of you, and you are not going to convince me.

At any site I have involvement in, or can get any hearing from the management, I am going to lobby hard for one table, maybe two at most.

My interest is to protect the poker ecology to the benefit of the rec player. The delaying of the game by multitablers is a peeve, the health of the lake is a real concern.

If I can possibly help it, you will not have the opportunity to come into any US site and play 8, 6, or even 4 tables.

If the poker ecology is properly protected, there will be casual poker for decades to come. If you guys had your way, it would be all over in 5 years. (I know, I know, most of you could care less.)

Don't get your hopes up when MGM/PartyUSA begins operation. Those operators will be looking at the long term also. Plus, there may well be regulatory conditions put in place to "protect the rec player". (Another reason you all should get off your dead butts and help on the Wexler Bill. It contains no such provisions.)

And, a completely free poker market may well favor site(s) run more my way than yours. Don't mistake the past few years for a free market. The overseas operators are trying to make as much money as possible in as short a time as possible. They know their time is limited until they get competition, and they figure they will not fare well when that happens. They are probably slack jawed in amazement that the current situation has lasted as long as it has.

They gotta luv GWB and his FoF supporters.

Tuff << Don't care if you disagree with me. In the end it will be what it is.