Cabinets and drawers full of junk I forgot I owned have been sorted, catalogued, and (mostly) discarded. ![]() Three bankers boxes of books and DVDs are still sitting in the trunk of my car, waiting to be sold to a secondhand shop in Hollywood. 14 bags of corporately-produced clothing that I wore to slave for a corporation half a decade ago went to Goodwill. On a practical level, I've certainly taken the necessary steps to prepare, spending the better part of my downtime since the end of the WSOP divesting myself of a sizable percentage of my physical possessions. It hasn't fully sunk in that I'm moving out of Los Angeles one week from today. The PPA will forever be haunted by the specters of their former board members Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson, and the hundreds of thousands in dirty dirty Full Tilt player-owner money they took in donations over the years. I'd be gunning for a 2012 WSOP Main Event seat from my living room in San Francisco on come spring, instead of wondering if I'll ever be able to play another hand of online poker. since they were in violation of the UIGEA? Ding ding ding! Doesn't that 15-month blackout period sound positively dreamy right about now? We'd already be nine months into it. Why else would they come out against the Reid bill last December? Um, because it would put them out of business in the U.S. A limp-dicked lobbying operation almost wholly funded by Full Tilt and PokerStars, the PPA claimed to represent the interests of players, but in actuality, they only represented the interest of their two biggest donors. ![]() Can anyone get the industry out of this mess in Washington? Well, it's certainly not the PPA.
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