After a fairly long hiatus, some Just For Laughs New Faces and Old (Canadian reference for my man Paul) joined the virtual felt for a whacky night of poker.
A party of nine was seated and while the OG gang happily greeted each other, we welcome first timer Drew. A friend of Josh and a true blood runs Eagle's Green Philly boy, Drew came prepared and motivated to live up to our little tables high expectations. And he did just that. I mean he lost 45 bucks, but he followed the tried and true rules of the whatever 'How to Poker for Dummies" PDF he found online, and thus kept us all on edge. As they say, A true pokerman makes the pokerpeople around him better.
While Drew had a rougher than expected night, King Martin walked way with a massive profit that hasn't been seen since the days of NBA Top Shot. Taking both the win total and the chip count before the second hour even gained steam, the Long Beach Boy coasted his way to victory, smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy.
Outside of Poker we spoke of movies, video games, and books. Too many too count (or for this blogs old ass to remember) but some highlights include a shot out to the Grant/Hepburn masterpiece Charade and the lesser known Plummer/Gould mistresspiece The Silent Partner. The Elliott Gould conversation then turned into wholesome anecdotes of seeing the man all over San Francisco asking for senior discounts and being pleasant.
We also stan'd over Sean Baker in great anticipation for his upcoming Anora. I mean any guy who can make Dirk Nasty, Drew's 2nd favorite white rapper over 30, into a complex gorgeous dipshit deserves some Oscar recognition dammit!
But perhaps the greatest memory of the evening was the unintentional introduction of Google Meets. After the 40-Minute Scott provided Zoom went extinct, Eagles forever fan Drew tush pushed into his Google Meets account which turned out to have an unapologetic amount of distracting virtual face altering options. From silly detective hats to pink cat ear headphones, the night evolved into a one-upsmanship of who could disturbed and delight. While Eve going full Strawberry Face and Scott transforming into a 1800s prospector were admirable, the winner of the evening was easily Paul as the uncanny plate of Pancakes and Eggs with an eerie inhuman smile and yolk pupils that followed you around no matter where in the Meets you stood. The crazy part was sometime, legend has it, Paul would be away from the camera but the breakfast would remain...Truly terrifying and delicious.
Also, Eve malicious joined the Check City Bandit club in the final hand. The seeds on that Strawberry!
Chip Leader: Martin
Check City Champ: Eve
Most R words in a single story mentioned during play: Drew
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