Excellent perspective.
Two trips in a row now, I've crushed the 4-8 games (Bellagio a couple weeks ago, then Red Rock this time) and wonder whether that happened because you've got people chasing pots that they wouldn't have chased a year ago. There was a cute little real estate appraiser sitting to my left who ended up shipping over half her stack to me. Even though she knew to fold, she couldn't get away from hope. Because I'm such a small stakes player, I generally make only $30-40 hour playing poker, but my last two times out, I've made over $125/hour. I didn't want to come back home yesterday!