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Did a little searching and was surprised not to find a thread specicially dedicated to the PPA Fly-In happening in Washington this week. I'm excited about attending the opening reception tonight, hopefully meeting some of the big names in poker, and making a difference in the results of some of the upcoming legislation. Is anyone else attending the event? What are your thoughts?

As far as myself, I haven't even been playing poker for the last six months or so. Part of this is due to new factors in my life (marriage and law school, mostly). However, to be completley honest (not too proud of this), I've found that the online game has simply gotten to difficult for me. I used to make a moderate hourly profit playing, but once the legislation went into effect, a lot of the less talented players no longer went through the effort to play. If I used to be at about the 75th percentile in terms of talent, I bet that a big chunk of the worst half of players stopped playing. Now I'm around the 50th percentile and have trouble just beating the rake.

My goal is to make poker easier for every responsible player to enjoy. My hope is that lots of responsible, less talented players will get involved in the game again and I can start making a profit again.

Hope to see a few of you out there!

Incidently, I live in the Washington area, so this isn't a huge burden for me. I hope not to miss a single law school class during the week. For any of those making the trip to Washington and taking a lot of time out of your lives to help with this, please accept my sincere appreciation.