Made it to VEGAS!
So I finally made it to vegas. I'm sitting here in Mccarran airport now. Had to get up at the ass crack of dawn, like 5:15am, which would have been closer to my bedtime last week. Anyway, managed to actually catch about an hour off sleep on the airplane which is rare for me. Of course it's that hanging by a thread sleep where you're just out of it enough to make the time go by quicker but you jerk awake as the damn flight attendant steps on your foot. OOPS SORRY. riiiight.
Anyway, i'm waiting for jalexand42/HibachiMahi's flight to get in so we can share a cab and head to our room. After that the plan is to hit US Bank to get our vegas rolls and then go preregister for our wsop events.
Since I've had a couple hours to kill before his flight got in, I watched the House FInancial Services committee meeting online this morning. I think overall the case for repealing UIGEA was pretty convincing, especially when taking into consideration how dumb and uninformed the opposition was. I realize, though, a lot of the time it doesn't matter how convincing the arguments are, or how ridiculously dumb the counter arguments are, the congress people just vote how they vote. I guess our only hope is to sway some of those on the fence.
Kind of funny but at one point this older african american lady, probably in her 70s, gets the mic while sucking on some piece of hard candy? (i'm going to guess/hope it was candy and not rattling her dentures or something..lol) anyway at first i'm like who the heck is this woman, but then it turned out she made more sense than anyone else, essentially arguing for indifference to what consenting adults want to do, and how if people want to gamble, they will gamble, so you might as well regulate it. Basically what she said in a few words (and clicks of her candy?) was simple and concise and summed up what others had been trying to express over the last hour. Good show and much respect, congresswoman.
So thats it for now... jalex just called me and he hit the ground, so off to crush some donkeys. I'll try to keep some regular vegas updates going.
Good luck!
Aaron
P.S. If i hear someone substitute the phrase "lost wages" when referring to "las vegas" one more time, I might jump off the top of the stratosphere. THE JOKE IS OLD AND NOT FUNNY PEOPLE.
Anyway, i'm waiting for jalexand42/HibachiMahi's flight to get in so we can share a cab and head to our room. After that the plan is to hit US Bank to get our vegas rolls and then go preregister for our wsop events.
Since I've had a couple hours to kill before his flight got in, I watched the House FInancial Services committee meeting online this morning. I think overall the case for repealing UIGEA was pretty convincing, especially when taking into consideration how dumb and uninformed the opposition was. I realize, though, a lot of the time it doesn't matter how convincing the arguments are, or how ridiculously dumb the counter arguments are, the congress people just vote how they vote. I guess our only hope is to sway some of those on the fence.
Kind of funny but at one point this older african american lady, probably in her 70s, gets the mic while sucking on some piece of hard candy? (i'm going to guess/hope it was candy and not rattling her dentures or something..lol) anyway at first i'm like who the heck is this woman, but then it turned out she made more sense than anyone else, essentially arguing for indifference to what consenting adults want to do, and how if people want to gamble, they will gamble, so you might as well regulate it. Basically what she said in a few words (and clicks of her candy?) was simple and concise and summed up what others had been trying to express over the last hour. Good show and much respect, congresswoman.
So thats it for now... jalex just called me and he hit the ground, so off to crush some donkeys. I'll try to keep some regular vegas updates going.
Good luck!
Aaron
P.S. If i hear someone substitute the phrase "lost wages" when referring to "las vegas" one more time, I might jump off the top of the stratosphere. THE JOKE IS OLD AND NOT FUNNY PEOPLE.
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