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Name: Peter (the "Rabbi")
Country: Canada
State: Ontario
Metro: Toronto
Birthday: 11/6/1979
Gender: Male
Interests: I'm a lawyer, what interests could I possibly have?
Expertise: Kung Fu
Occupation: Legal
Industry: Legal
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  pokerptr
Member Since:
2/24/2003
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| Everyone in my office is sick and I'm to blame/the scapegoat.
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| BLAZING HEADACHEI've been sick for almost 6 weeks now. Well, to be fair, I was only really sick for 2 weeks, but I can't shake this residual cough. I've tried just about everything. Now my doctor has proscribed me a puffer that people use for asthma attacks. It's a huge pain. One of the other residual effects are blazing headaches; the weather makes them worse too. Fun!
That's about it for now.
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| New entry!Exciting, no?
Not much has been going on. I was hired back as an associate at my firm over the summer, so I've been plugging away since then. Its been really slow, which sucks, because I am paid as a percentage of my billable; it's motivating to bill, but it's tough to just go out and find work as a first year associate. So, if the firm doesn't have work to give me, I don't get paid. Things are starting to pick up though as people return from summer vacation and start doing breaking the rules/doing other stupid things/ again.
Vanessa and I had our first year annaversary, which was a bit surreal; technically, we are no longer "newly-weds" and she has lost her "bride" status; both of us had a pretty good freakout about that. We had a good time on our annaversary, despite me being brutally sick with a sinus cold (which I'm still fighting off, 5 weeks to the day later). This cold has lasted so long that I'm becoming used to the symptoms, like they are a part of regular life. Bleh. I need to drink more water.
That's about it really...Oh, I signed up as a prop YET AGAIN, this time with a different group. I was lured in because the pay is sick-good (between %125 and %155 rakeback depending, works out to about $0.30 per hand), and there are no seating rules or minimum number of hands required...which is good, because I probably only play 2-5 hours a week these days. Battlefield 2 takes up most of my electronic entertainment. :P
Anyway, it's an extra $500 a week, which is nice since Vanessa is currently unemployed. She's been looking pretty hard, but nothing has popped up yet. She's still early in her search though, and September is a tough month for finding associate work (since all the first-year associates are starting back this month after articling). Hopefully it's just a matter of time, but she is (and should) be waiting to find something that she really enjoys. This may take some time, which is fine.
All right, that's about it.
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| A bad handSometimes I sit there playing poker and just watch myself play a hand
poorly. Like, I think to myself, "ok wtf are you doing" and then
just watch it happen. Here's today's example:
150 bb stacks, PLO on UB. UTG miniraises, two calls, I call on
the button with 2456 doublesuited ("dude wtf, pot that"). Blinds
call.
A22 flop. Checked to me ("Ok, you are drawing to one out if utg
checks that flop"). I bet the pot. ("wtf?") Blinds
fold, utg mini-raises, folded back to me ("you are drawing to one out,
see?"). I call.
Turn 4. UTG bets 1/2 the pot. ("He's worried that you are
going to fold. He's pricing you in. You have one out,
fold.") I call.
River 5. He bets 2/3 the pot. ("Nice weakgay full
house. You are so beat. FOLD.") I call and lose to
AAxx.
OMGIRULEATPOKERWSOP2KPLOEVENTCHAMPION
Sigh.
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| The BombSo yeah. A bomb went off in my neighbourhood today. WTF. Apparently some guy walked into a Tim Horton's coffee shop, went into the bathroom, and blew himself up with a can of gasoline. Somehow he had rigged it up as a home-made bomb. I was out shopping on the street right after it happened, and heard the erie sound of the bombsquad detonating a second package he had left behind out on the street. The coffee shop is (was) right at the corner of Yonge and Bloor; for those of you that don't know Toronto, that's pretty much the centre of mid-town Toronto, right in the middle of Yorkdale, one of the busiest shopping areas of the city. Pretty unbelievable, I guess.
Watching the news now, only the bomber was killed. A mild, temporary relief.
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