Saturday, February 05, 2011

Two years ago today...

...I received the following email, shown exactly as it was, with no "real world" name anywhere in it:

Hello Rakewell ~

I'm traveling to Vegas Feb. 11-16th for the Venetian Deepstack tournaments and associated cash game juiciness. It would be an honor to meet the illustrious author of Poker Grump while I'm in town!

Who knows, I might even generate a suitably usable reader report.

Please let me know if you're willing to meet-up at a table...

Best,

Cardgrrl
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Raise or Fold: A
Year of Risky Business
http://raiseorfold.cardgrrl.com/
Writing & playing poker as if they were activities worth doing well.


Fortunately, the air of mystery about the identity of the cheeky, anonymous sender piqued my curiosity, and I replied affirmatively rather than ignoring it or making some excuse. I also followed the link, started reading the blog, and was sufficiently impressed by the intelligence and personality it revealed to put up this post about it four days later. Two days after that, we met at Harrah's poker room, went across the street, and played a session at Caesars Palace, which I excitedly wrote about here. After another several days of getting to know her, there was this follow-up report. And, well, you pretty much know the rest of the story from there.

I think it safe to say that no email has ever done so much to change my life for the better.

13 comments:

bastinptc said...

You know I am very happy for the two of you.

Josie said...

Happy Anniversary! Very nice post.

lightning36 said...

It has been obvious through your posts that this relationship has been very special to you. Sincere best wishes that it continues to blossom.

Michael said...

Happy Anniversary of sorts!

NT (aka Cardgrrl) said...

I feel entirely confident in saying that we qualify for a "meet cute" label. :)

Sauza said...

I'm glad for the both of you that you replied to her email. Happy anniversary.

Anonymous said...

Happy anniversary to you and Nina.

Anonymous said...

its great for you. but you are less grumpy because of it. can you still say you are the poker grump?

BWoP said...

Poker . . . bringing people together.

I wish you both many years of happiness!

Anonymous said...

Hey, NT: I think in order for it to qualify as a meet cute, one of you actually has to be cute.

NT said...

@ Snarky Anonymous: Nah. Pop culture FAIL on your part. But that's okay, it must be nice living under the bridge.

Anonymous said...

@ NT: I know exactly what "meet cute" means. Recognition of sarcasm FAIL on your part. See you under the bridge.

Anonymous said...

hey, not everybody is gorgeous. they are both in good shape and are quite smart and have cute qualities in the other person's eyes.