*Official* PPA Fly-In Thread

[BRDSR]

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.

[Berge20]

I hope to attend some of the events, but will likely only be able to swing the Tuesday evening reception due to work limitations.

Anyone coming into town (or even a local) is more than welcome to drop me a line.

[DeadMoneyDad]

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I hope to attend some of the events, but will likely only be able to swing the Tuesday evening reception due to work limitations.

Anyone coming into town (or even a local) is more than welcome to drop me a line.

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From the sound of it they are expecting over 100 out of towners. Spoke to John this morning.

I wouldn't expect a lot of out of towners to repond today as most are traveling.

The list of poker celbs is pretty good. Although Moneymaker may have to cancel.


D$D

[BRDSR]

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The list of poker celbs is pretty good. Although Moneymaker may have to cancel.


D$D

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I'm hoping to meet Barry Greenstein. We graduated from the same college (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) and he's just supposed to be one of the nicest guys in poker.

[TheEngineer]

I'm here. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Look forward to meeting all of you this evening.

FYI: Internet access (WiFi) is free in the rooms. Just sign up for Omni Select (also free) at the sign-in screen.

[DeadMoneyDad]

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The list of poker celbs is pretty good. Although Moneymaker may have to cancel.


D$D

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I'm hoping to meet Barry Greenstein. We graduated from the same college (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) and he's just supposed to be one of the nicest guys in poker.

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Small world.

I used to go to concerts at SUI Edwardsville.

Saw the Greatful Dead there twice.


D$D

[Skallagrim]

Waaaaaa

Wish I could be there.

Skallagrim

PS - Would anyone who gets to talk with Howard Lederer please tell him Skallagrim from 2+2 says hello and hopes to speak with him again.

[va1halla]

I just wanted to wish you all good luck, and to let you all know I appreciate all of those flying in and attending.

[dlk9s]

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I just wanted to wish you all good luck, and to let you all know we're all counting on you.

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FYP

[Legislurker]

I wasnt able to get back from Florida in time to make it. Please do a good trip report for us. I just decided not to drive up for the reception today, Id make it just in time but Im exhausted and and I cant do much for poker on the side of a highway in Virginia asleep in a ten car pileup.