Today is D's b'day!  He's two years old.  We'll have a party for him this weekend.  My favorite nickname for him is "Sunny D" (like the drink), because he's usually a very happy kid. He has this cute little walk where he swings his arms - what we call his "happy walk" - and he walks around the house like he pays the bills or something. But lately I've been calling him Snot Boy. He hasn't gotten a lot of colds this winter, but he's had a lot of nasal mucous discharge. So much so that there are times when I don't look at him for a while and all of a sudden, his upper lip looks like Niagara Falls.  One time, he came into my office while I was starting to close down a session and he wanted some Gatorade.  I handed it to him, and when I finally turned to look at him, the snot was free flowing into the Gatorade bottle as he drank.  I guess that's one way of claiming the rest of the bottle.

If the discharge was black, he'd look like Hitler. Which is kind of funny because when he was little, we used to call him Baby Hitler. We look nothing like Germans, but for some reason he bore a slight facial resemblance to a young Adolf. And his favorite thing to say was "eich eich."  He'd go running around the house lifting up his arm and saying "eich eich."  Zeig heil!

Yeah, I know that's in poor taste to call your kid Baby Hitler, but we just call it like we see it. Fwiw, he looks a little less like him now. So before I get more hate mail, we love our boys. But if you can't make fun of and laugh at the people in your own family (yourself, your spouse or your kids), then you have no sense of humor.

POKER

I have now played over 40K hands of 1/2 Rush.  My win rate is a lowly (but barely respectable) 4 bb (2 ptbb).  I've been a little frustrated how difficult it is to beat all the Rush nits (people who play 12/10 and below).  One of the main reasons I decided to work out at 1/2 Rush is because I thought it was an environment that was more conducive to practicing a LAG (loose aggressive) style.  I think this will help me when I move to 6max - especially late position play (and it couldn't hurt).  When there are a lot of tight players, playing looser is better.  But here's something interesting from my database (altho 40K hands is still a small sample).  How is it that the highest win rates are for those people with PFR (pre flop raise) of 5.5-7.7?!?

If someone told me this was possible in a game of NLHE poker, I would have said they were lying for sure.  They are obviously losing the blind battle (as they don't raise enough to recoup the blinds they lose).  And I just have no idea how they get paid off on their big hands.  There are obviously fish in the games, but I don't think there are so many who will pay them off.  And I have twice as much opportunity to get to any fish because I play twice as many hands.  Let's just hope this is some bizarre sample size error - otherwise, I'll have to go back to the drawing board.  Maybe I'm kicking ass with my win rate of 4, while the rest of the LAGs are losing at -10.34bb and the TAGs are losing at -17.75bb.  I'm just confused.