I received my quarterly mailing from Harrah's last week.

For the last couple years I have always received an offer for two free nights at most of their Las Vegas properties, good anytime except for a tiny number of super premium dates like New Year's Eve. Last year with the economy hurting they even upped it to three free nights.

This time, I'm back down to two and they're mid-week nights only.

I think this means one of two things - either it's been a long time since I've been to Las Vegas, or the Vegas economy is improving enough that they no longer have to give away the store just to drum up a little traffic.

I don't think the economy is improving all that much.

Anyway, I see that April has determined dates for the December WPBT gathering. If you've ever thought about going it's a terrific time. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to go but you never know. If I can I'm gonna have to call up Harrah's and convince them to restore me to Semi-Valuable Customer status -- I don't mind staying at the House of Broken (a/k/a the Imperial Palace) but I'm not crazy about paying for it other than through donations at the Pai Gow table.

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I was in Staples yesterday and I saw a kid wearing a really, really faded Full Tilt T-shirt.

Congratulations online poker, you've officially been around for a long time.