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Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald

I tried to get on the Surreal life, but I wasnt enough of a hasbeen

About Me

I'm Pete - In the online poker world I'm known as DownByLaw11 - I'm music obsessed and still hold onto hope that I can get back into the whole band scene thing - If you're impressed by anything I've already said, then you're probably lame - I enjoy drinking Green Tea and coffee - I don't drink much anymore and I'm not into partying - I live for the Vancouver Canucks and I love to talk hockey with people - I enjoy playing roller hockey and believe an NHL scout is gonna see me play and notice something special in me and insist I join their team - I am a member of the Work Less Party and fully agree that we spend far too much time working and not enough persuing the things we truly love..... - and a bunch of other random shit. I'm boring and lazy. Bye!

My Interests

Writing music, Playing music, Playing poker, Busting Donkies, Check Raising, Getting Rad, Playing Hockey, Watching Hockey, spreading the free thinkers gospel

I'd like to meet:

Musicians, the bottom of a bottle of wine, any member of the religous right so I can slap some fucking sense into them. Marisa Tomei so I can plant a big wet one on her and show her my best impression of her in My Cousin Vinny. I'd like to meet Phil Hellmuth so I could convince him to mentor me

Music:

Lagwagon, Nofx, Craig's Brother, Joey Cape, Ted Bond, Common, Burnthe8track, Ron Sexsmith, Grade, The Adventures of Jet, Spookey Ruben, Good Riddance, The Johnsons, Propagandhi, Inspection 12, Down By Law, Catch 22, Civ, Wes Montgomery, Pat Matheney, Pulley, SNFU, Miles Davis, Ten foot pole (The Scott Radinsky years), Bad Astronaut, Barenaked ladies, MXPX, Brand New Unit, The Ken Yokoyama Band, Buck 65, Danko Jones, Face to Face, Hey Mike!, Hi-Standard, Ivana Santilli, Paperface, PMX, Stone temple pilots(4 life), Tragically Hip, Tricky woo!, Weezer

Movies:

Dogma, chasing amy, Mallrats, Clerks, Payback , Good Will Hunting, Rounders, Office Space

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, The daily show, Scrubs, My name is earl, The Office, Kenny vs Spenny, Prison Break, It's always sunny in Philadelphia

Books:

SuperSystem: Doyle Brunson & friends
Ace on the River: Barry Greenstein
How little I knew thee; A tale of two Peter Billyealds

Heroes:

Jason Lee, Myself about 9 years ago, Mike Tyson, Stephen Hawking, Educated minds, Brandon Reid, Ralph Nader, Phil Hellmuth, Anyone who has the courage to toss money and security aside in favour of chasing their dreams
And special thanks goes to Ted Bond of Craig's Brother for getting me stoked about punk rock again

My Blog

Sometimes I think about poker and get scared

The objective of poker in terms of how to win, is to always be playing with people who are worse than you.  If 5 amazing, equally talented players sat at a table together and played every day, th...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:55:00 PST

Guitarist and Vocalist available for Bullshit, Getting Fucked over, and left in the dust

Who would want to create a new wicked band when you can keep putting bandaids on your current crappy one?   Oh right, because it takes effort to start fresh, and its easy as shit to associat...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:05:00 PST

another quick poker blog and other shit

It seemed my good play that I talked about in my previous blog was just a sign of good things to come, as I made 2 final tables in major tournaments last week with a 5th and 4th place finish.  Wi...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:03:00 PST

An overdue blog

So I woke up around 1pm today after hanging out with some friends the night before on the long weekend.  I was already dead tired before I even went out, so you can only imagine how I felt at 4am...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Tue, 22 May 2007 12:28:00 PST

Would you gamble on your life?

Say there were 10 doors, and behind 6 of them was the kind of life you could only dream of, and behind the other 4 were far worse lives than you currently have.  If you choose you can quit a...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:21:00 PST

No one is immune

Even the luckiest people in life have had a day, a week, month, or even a year where it seemed like things didnt go their way.  The times when it feels like the deck is stacked against you can re...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:02:00 PST

The final tables, breaking through, and other random thoughts

The last week has been especially good in the world of poker.  Last week I made my first significant final table in a long time in a large tournament with around 1700 entries, I finished 5th and ...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:34:00 PST

Random thoughts

have you ever watched figure skating?  It can truly be a beautiful sport, but only when it involves a hot flexible babe.  When a man is skatin around, all I can think about it how much he pr...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:02:00 PST

Everyone seems to know whats best for me....

But they don't.  After years and years, it seems like even the best of friends still don't understand or believe me when discussing life, love, and other such personal politics, without even the ...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:23:00 PST

Poker Blog (by popular demand)

People keep asking me to update them on poker.  So here goes. You have may have seen adevertisments for the Moneymaker freeroll tournament on the tv.  The tournament to turn a regular joe in...
Posted by Peter "DownByLaw11" Billyeald on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:25:00 PST