The other tragedy in all this is we would love him so much if Pete didn’t fuck this up.
He, alongside James Odunze and Buffy Miller, etc. would pump up our program and talk shit to all comers. He’d show up here every once in a while, like Azeem’s dad, to a hero’s welcome.
This is all so depressing.
This is just Petersen being Petersen. He was always afraid to lose more than he was willing to take risks to win.
For my 90s kids and poker fans CP was Knish.
Joey Knish : You did it to yourself, you had to put it all on the line for some Vegas pipe dream
Mike McDermott : I took a risk, I took a risk, you see all the angles, and you never have the fucking stones to play one
Joey Knish : Stones? you little punk, I'm not playing for the thrill of fucking victory here, I owe rent, alimony, child support, I play for money, my kids eat, I got stones enough not to chase card actions of fucking pipe dreams of winning the world series on ESPN, but about the money I've got to turn my back, I've got to say no.
You can’t lose what you don’t put in the middle. But you can’t win much either.
