My recovery is going very well. I can now type with both hands (sort of)! The staples are supposed to come out of my arm on wednesday pending the doctor's approval. I will be sad to see them go. I really was starting to enjoy showing them off to friends and grossing out chicks at the bar. Despite trying to conserve them I ran out of percecet days ago and will have to rig my pain scale when I go back there to try and get more I guess. The good thing is I really haven't needed them much since most of the pain is more dull now and only comes if I move my arm around a ton. I'm a pretty bad patient and haven't been wearing my sling for a few days like I'm supposed to.

I was planning on taking much of the time off of poker the last couple weeks but I did play a few days on my laptop where it was a little easier. I have been running super terrible and kept that one up yesterday in hilarious fashion. I played a hand on full tilt 25/50HU where the button raises, I make it 500 with KQs he makes it 1250 and I shove 5.5k... he calls with J-9o. You can't make that up. I lose of course. I also got all in pf with piejay in a 12k pot with AK vs AJ with the same action as above (piejay called all in) and lost that as well.

Congrats goes out to my boy inyaface though and his brother pudge who between the two of them had 3 top three finishes in big MTTs in a week, cashing in total for over 300k. We will have to do some partying for that soon.

This week is all about goodbyes basically, and I havent even been home for long it feels like and already I am leaving in a week to spend the summer trying to win a WSOP bracelet. Saturday 'NAS' is in town so I'm going to go to that show and thursday there's a goodbye party for a friend who is spending the next few months in Africa. I am pretty nervous for her but I'm sure it will be a crazy experience living in Namibia.

I made a 2/4 HU video today and got crushed while playing but I think I talked about some interesting stuff at least, hopefully people like it and have lots of questions after it goes up today or tommorow.

I will be spending the week packing and partying, and I can't wait for Vegas.

I went in for shoulder surgery on monday. I had to show up at 830am and was put on a bed right away and given an IV of saline. A doctor came along with some "martinis" to pump into there as I was given an ultrasound on my shoulder to find the nerves they could jam their big freezing needle into them. My mom was with me and pointed out that the anaesthologist appeared to be wearing eye liner... hmmm now I had to worry about what i was going to say about it while knocked out.

After about thirty minutes my arm was completely numb. I had a weird moment after getting to the OR where they asked me to move tables and put my arm on another table. I thought I had complied until I looked down to see my arm hadn't moved at all. It was an extremly bizarre feeling.

I woke up quite groggy in some recovery room and pretended to be more with it then i was so i could get wheeled into the private overnight room where they hooked me up with some morphine. I had a kill bill wiggle your big toe moment with my frozen hand for the rest of the night until I finally overcame with my ninja ability. The night was pretty terrible. They started me on percocets but I could only take 2 every four hours so I wasnt able to get much rest. My family all came to visit which was really nice and helped a ton.

I got out of there around 10am the next morning. My sister came and picked me up and has been taking care of me the last few days. I also hired her as a PA for tthe next couple of weeks since she doesnt have a job this month and I am even less willing/capable of doing menial tasks then usual.

That said I did manage to type this all with my left hand!

Ill leave you all with a picture:

I just got home from Vegas yesterday. I love travelling and I had an amazing time in Vegas but it's still always nice to come back to Toronto. The feeling of seeing the skyline appear for the first time as you drive along the waterfront still gives me a happy feeling.

The 25k didn't go exactly according to plan, I busted out on day 2 when I couldn't fade a straight and flush draw with one card to come in a 100k chip pot. Tom (Durrr) got pretty deep but sadly came 9th after lost KK to AJ for a 4+mill chip pot. I partied like crazy last weekend though. I went with some friends to coachella (a big annual music festival near Palm Springs CA) and we rented a 40 foot RV and did the festival in rock star style. My favorite acts were Prince, Roger Waters, Fatboy Slim, Metric, The National and Stars. We ran into someone with an extra backstage pass so I was able to be on the stage during 'Stars' set which was great.

I had a bunch of trouble making videos while I was on the road which is why there hasn't been any from me in a while. I just started making a new series of Heads up Videos though. The first one is done and will hopefully be up soon. I hope everyone likes them.


I'm getting surgery on my shoulder on monday. It has come out over 30 times in the last three years and now I've finally found the time to get it fixed. I went in yesterday for pre-op where they did a bunch of tests and explained what would happen and how long I'd be out for and how long I would have to stay in the hospital etc etc. If everything goes well I'm only supposed to stay one night overnight before I'm allowed to go home which isn't so bad I guess. I'm a little nervous about the surgery but I'm more worried how I'm going to be able to play poker with one arm! I should be able to use my arm again in time for the WSOP so at least I won't have to deal with that problem live. Maybe I'll need to get some friends to come over and click buttons for me... my first session back home I won 21k in under 2000 hands so I am plenty inspired to play right at the time I won't be able to... oh well at least I'll get the good drugs.

I need this space to complain


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I had 115k chips in the MOnte Carlo main event coming back from the break, which was almost double average. About the third hand in I get AQ and reraise a dude who raised the hijack with 95k chips. The flop is 3 wheel cards and I bet 14k and he calls. Turn Q, I bet 34k he calls, river 9 I bet the rest he calls with nines and I want to kill myself. The great part about it, besides being two outed for almost 200k chips was that he took at least 10 seconds to call the river, because the 9 that binked me also made some obviously irrelavent three flush.

SO I GET ****ING TWO OUTED AND SLOW ROLLED, GREAT.

I am left with about 14k chips and manage to steal the blinds once in the next orbit so I have about 16 now (500/1k/100) when I pick up AK in the big blind and call a guy's shove of 12k chips. He has AQ and RIVERS A ****ING QUEEN.

The crowd of people watching all go OOOOOOoooooo. I say nothing.

Next hand Im the SB with 4k and teh same guy raises to 3k and calls my underraise shove with AK. He has AJ and this time bangs out the Jack in the window.


I say nothing whatsoever and leave immediatly. I decided not to shake any hands on my way out


I was never at the table with more then one other player who I would even deem 'competent'.

I am extremely upset right now in the way only tournament poker can make me.

Thoughts on San Remo

Snoop Todd and Chuddo and I rolled in to San Remo around noon on March 31st after cabbing from Nice Airport. Winding along a road with amazing houses on them built on cliffs and both sand and rock beaches with the ocean crashing into them below we were provided with incredible views in between the tunnels that took us through the mountains. If it wasn't for our helpful French cabbie we would not have even realized we had crossed the border into Italy since you pass through without even a noticeable sign.

San Remo itself is a nice little town. Mostly a touristy community it has an abundance of hotels and a large sand beach with many restaurants. The town also has a pedestrian only area that takes you in between shops and cafes and lets you out in front of a large church in one direction and a big square with more shops in another. The casino was a very centrally located and large building, quite nice inside.

The tournament itself went pretty terribly for me, I busted out the last hand of the second level when I called down with AQ on a Q-5h-3h-8s-x board and was wrong. I also played the 2k MTT the next day and busted late in day 1. My only big money making venture in San Remo was playing drunken Sit 'n' Go's. One night after bar and restaurant hopping with Chuddo all day we went to the casino later on and played a 550 and 1100EU buy-in SNGs. I had a blast, talking friendly smack to some of the table, befriending others and trying to convince the table to do shots with me with varying success. Despite my inebraited state I amazingly managed to win both!

A note about some European players

I was totally shocked at the lack of respect and sportsmanship most people I played with had. It was mostly people in their 40's or older and was always a European in these cases. I have never seen so many slow-rolls in my life. I personally got slow-rolled 3 times and heard about and witnessed about two dozen more. I have never seen people try to angle shoot so much. I have never seen ANYONE throw their stack of about 20 clay chips at the dealer before (he only received a 5 minute penalty). I have never seen people yell and scream when they win and lose hands as often and as loudly as people here. I understand that poker is booming here and there are a lot of people who have taken a new interest in the game and may not be accustomed to the scene but seriously... this stuff is just common sense that human beings should developed when learning how to deal with people. It's understandable to get emotional when so much money is involved but there is a clear line that most people seem to observe and some clearly have no idea it even exists.

Right now I'm in Amsterdam and having a great time. I'm going to go check out the Van Gogh Museum tonight and then hopefully find a sweet club for later on. I'll trip report Amsterdam in another blog in a couple days.

It was my Birthday on wednesday and with Chuddo in town and Inyaface's birthday only a few days away I dedicated most of my time to partying it up with everyone in Toronto who I won't get to see for the next month.

Wednesday I went to dinner with my family and then went to the Toronto raptors game after. They crushed the Pistons of course but we all had the bright idea to bet the over which of course meant we saw one of the lowest scoring games of the year. Aftwerwards, I went to Harbor 60 with a few friends for some amazing steak and seafood. After all the champagne and scotch and everything I was pretty happy to not lose CC roulette on that one!

Friday night I hosted a 'Olympic Warm-up' themed party. About 50 people came and almost everyone had great costumes on either representing countries or athletes of a particular sport. We even had 5 girls come as the 5 Olympic rings! Everyone competed in a few team events like boat races and the volume chug until the organization broke down and we just partied it up. It was an amazing time overall and I'm sad I won't be back in Toronto until early May.

I'm leaving for San Remo on Sunday and playing that event and the EPT grand final in Monte Carlo in Europe before heading to Vegas for the WPT 25k Championship and then checking out the Coachella music festival before coming home. Now if I could just start to pack...

I love March Madness. I usually just casually follow the rest of the College basketball season, but once March Madness rolls around I get way into it. I usually get a chance to go down to Buffalo, Detroit or Pittsburg to watch some round one and two games, but this year I'm sweating it all from home since they weren't any close ones.

I of course have some action on the games. Inyaface and I are picking a bunch of games as the tournament goes on that we think we can get good lines on and splitting action. We went 3-2 yesterday which is ok, it would have been 4-1 if kentucky didn't foul when the game was essentially over allowing the spread to get covered.

I'm also in the twoplustwo HSNL 1k pool. I went 15-1 on the first day so i'm tied with a bunch of people for second place. I have tennesee going to the final four and they are currently giving me a bit of a scare against American, ugh.

I'll bet on anything.

I love to bet 100 dollars with friends on tons of funny stuff, unfortunatly most of my friends don't have the same desire so they just own me. I've won and lost some hilarious props over the years and some we're just amazing to witness.

Last weekend I got generally crushed on props, and it got started right away when inyaface, eagles and I were in a cab quite late to get to the airport. We were on hold with the airline while racing along the highway in a snowstorm. I proposed the bet of "will we get there or will the airline pick up first" I wanted to take them answering side and when nobody would take that I took the other side just for the action... of course the dude picks up right before we get there.

At one bar while we were out we all ordered these ridiculous 25 dollar giant drinks that look like something you should only drink with a girl poolside in the dominican and of course I issued an open hundo chug challenge to the table. Inyaface took me up on the offer and I jumped out to a decent lead before succumbing to brainfreeze.

The night before that while out drinking with Gavin Smith, Bill Edler, Kelly Kellsner (The tournament organizer) and a few others we were playing some game where everyone puts 0-3 coins in there hand and you take turns guessing how many coins everyone holds as a group, whoever is the farthest off gets eliminated until one person takes down all the money. In one round I got heads up, and I had the 'button' meaning I got to guess last... HOW COULD I LOSE? I put three coins in my hand giving myself plenty of chance to win. Somehow the old man I was up against insta says 3 and opens his hand proudly displaying 0 coins!! How did I get owned so bad?!?!? Well he was kind enough to let me know as he was raking in my money that as I was drunkingly waving my other hand around gesturing as I was talking about something he saw I didnt have any coins in my hand so they all must be in my clenched fist... what a fish

I couldnt even win the neutral EV gambles, I lost a few hundo betting vs Snoop Todd and some others where we would pick 'horses' to win low stakes SNGs on Poker Stars and then cheer them on. let me just say if you are a three dollar sit 'n' go player, dont ever let me cheer for, you will come last every time.

By far the biggest ownage of the weekend was served by the hands of Bill Edler. He was talking about how the night previous him and some others at dinner were taking turns setting over under on celebritys ages and betting them for a hundo a pop. He said he made a killing on Avril Lavigne. I told him I was pretty sure I knew how old she was and someone else said 25. He said look, Ill let you take either side you want for a hundo I know she's not 25. I paused and thought about it, I had just made it clear I thought she was younger and he still offers me the bet? Now I dont know what to think... I go over to 'out-smart' him... sigh/lifetilt (she's 23).

Its funny how much money you'll pay to find out something you thought you knew but really didn't. I paid a thousand dollars just to find out I couldnt do one thousand push ups in 24 hours once, pretty sick right? Then again I paid a share of 5k once to find out how awesome it would be to see someone jump into a tank full of sharks and that was worth every penny.


"Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, he eats you."


-Peter


Also I was just reminded of another prop I have lost recently to my good friend chuddo. We bet 100 bucks on a pro dwarf vs teachers basketball game where he set the line at -4.5 "giants". If you dont know what Im talking about ask away here and Ill explain further. Anyways, I gave him the points and picked the giants and of course somehow the giants win in double OT BY ONLY 4!!!! The really funny thing is he also bet durrr a 100 on the over under and he picked over. I told chud he was a huge dog to scoop and would offer him 3 to 1 which he didnt take citing 'I already have enough action on a dwarf basketball game I cant even sweat'

Sometimes my friends save me money like that.

My stay in the 5k heads up tournament was short lived. The structure was great, deep stacks for a while and was also best two out of three matches. I felt like it gave me a great chance to win. I ended up playing Brad Booth in the first round and lost to him 2-1. To his credit he played a great game, hopefully he's able to take it down.

I spent the last few days partying it up in Calgary. Friday night was a ton of fun. A few of us went out and managed to hit up 3 or four bars in downtown Calgary. The original plan was to go to the Flames/Preds game but since the Raps game went into OT we didnt make it out on time and just went to a whole bunch of bars. Highlights included J-chid getting tossed from a couple bars, Todd (Snoop Todd on 2p2) eating a bunch of **** shaped candy he was given by some bachlerette partiers and Calgary local Devin Lake losing his mind at one of Calgarys fine bouncers.

I ended up playing a coupe sessions also. Saturday I played a little heads up cash and had a great day, winning almost 25k. Today however I was reminded why I don't usually play sunday MTTs, managing to cash in almost nothing including the 10k heads up and some other big STTs. Swongs - they are one thing.

I've had a great time in Calgary but it'll be nice to get home and relax for a couple weeks and hopefully play a bunch online before heading to San Remo at the end of the month.

-Peter

This is the first of many blog entries, as I plan to be writing regularily on leggopoker.com. My last couple weeks have been very busy with playing and learning how to use the video software and making my first video. I hope those of you that saw it liked it, I seem to have gotten some good feedback which has really encouraged me to think up great ideas for the future that everyone will enjoy.

Right now I'm on a completely backwards sleep schedule so I am planning on staying up until my plane leaves tommorow morning. I'm heading to Calgary for the weekend with some friends to play in a 5k heads up tournament that is part of the Canadian poker tour. You can read more about that here: http://www.canadianchampionshippoker.com/Events/

I've only been to Calgary once before so I'm excited for the weekend. I'm going to try to do some partying and maybe hit the slopes on sunday after I win the tournament. If anyone is in the area be sure to say hi if you see me.

-Peter