So, last night I sit down at a 1table SNG on PokerStars and get read to destroy the table in my normal fashion (pfft... wishful thinking at best). During the minute before the tourny starts I do my usual reflection on the table. Check out everyone's avatars and see where everyone is from.
I get to the guy who's sitting 2 to my left and the picture he has up for his avatar looks eerily familiar. Then I look at his name and I say to myself, "it can't be."
So, I type something into the chat and ask him his name. He's a little apprehensive at first but finally offers it up.
"Mark... What's it to you?"
Well, I'll be a son of a... It turns out it's a guy that I grew up with in the small town where I'm oringinally from. We hadn't seen each other in 6+years!!! It was ridiculous!
We ended up spending most of the tourny chatting and catching up. So and so's married. So and so's expecting their first child. What we're doing in life. You know... The usual. Unfortunately we both ended up spending too much time talking to one and other and both busted out rather early.
No worries though! It was well worth the money! We both promised each other that we'll have to meet up for a drink the next time I'm back there and I'd really like that. This guy and I spent the better part of our teenage years having fun and causing trouble! Who knows what will happen the next time we get together!!
So, although I ended up busting out of the SNG rather early I was very happy with the overall outcome of the game. Who in a million years would think that amogst the hundreds of thousand of players at PokerStars that him and I would sit down at the same table and actually recognize one and other all these years later? It's a small online world indeed!!
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