A few players had deduced he wasn't Canadian (his southern drawl, my guess) and they asked him what he was doing in Vancouver. He told them he moved here for work, to play online poker, and at that point another player at the table chimed in.
Random: What games do you play?
David: Sit n Gos, $15s and $30s
Random: Do you know acbarone?
I am not making this up. Somehow, a random player at a $1/$2 NL game knows of me (By my 2+2 screenname, I might add) and just happened to bring it up to my roommate, who has been to that particular casino twice before in his life. What. Are. The. Odds.
I wish I could give more details on how this all went down, but David has quite possibly the worst memory of any poker I've ever met in my entire life. Or he doesn't care enough to relay the step by step process of how I got name dropped. I suppose those two things aren't mutually exclusive.
My initial reaction was "Really?" A combination of shock and pride, I suppose. Feels weird. The random player, by the way, is a 180 man grinder named Alain who follows the blog. He and I have talked briefly over Skype, but after this we made preliminary plans to grab a beer sometime in the near future. The moral of the story -- mention me in public and I'll buy you a beer.
3 comments:
Mr acbarone68,
I feel you are underestimating yourself somewhat. I have been following you for sometime from the Uk. After firstly watching your vids on PokerVT, I have tried to follow in your footsteps and have a few friends who I have converted into acbarone fans.
I am currently grinding the 15's with a fairly decent ROI, recently cut my hours at work to grind some more and, fingers crossed, will hopefully be signed up to do some more coaching of my own at the end of this week, after having a SNG coach of my own this year.
So, firstly, thanks for the inspiration, as it is beginning to pay off for me. Secondly, please hurry up and move to the 30's so I aint gotta put up with you popping up every now and then, and thirdly, thank god for the time difference (please dont move to Europe.)
Good Luck
Leo
http://doubleagent22.blogspot.com/
I'm shocked that the person didn't instead ask David: "Hey do you know n0bigdeal?"
@Leo: Thanks. I'm glad I could inspire you, but I'm just a guy who plays SNGs (and writes about it). Nothing too special there. ;)
I too hope to be out of the $15s at some point although if the games remain this juicy, I don't know how I'll ever leave.
@Ben: Or Penfold.
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