An interesting game with players very slowly coming on line at a later time than usual due to the game being postposed 1 hour 20 mins to accommodate the England/France World Cup Quarter Final (so we started at 9:20 instead of 8pm).
Players slowly joined in dribs and drabs, each one looking more depressed than the last, though to be fair for Gabriel and Paul that could be because they weren’t managing to navigate the trials and tribulations of getting into the actual game via Pokerstars occasionally confusing interface.
England were just defeated 2-1 by themselves with France being the benefactors after a fairly average display. In a tribute to France we all also decided to give a fairly average display with no star players today. Saurabh wasn’t playing and Pete, even though he was playing was obviously just feeling down. Aboy hasn’t been seen for weeks and Claudia and Mita are on a plane over to Qatar but are obviously going to get there too late.
After 10 minutes or so of David and Alan thinking it was going to be a head to head game, Pete popped up on the table, Everton joined, Paul and Gabi joined on the Zoom call whilst working out how to actually get in the game and before long there were 6 of us fighting it out making it to both the poker table and the Zoom call.
It didn’t feel like anyone played particularly well, Paul was sent off quite early in the first half, Alan gave the ball away far too easily and was pretty badly injured after a crunching tackle from David and Pete had a decent first half but just couldn’t get in the game after the break.
In the end Ev faded too and it was a final head to head between Gabriel and David.
You could call it David and Goliath but let’s just say David and David. Or David and Gabriel.
In the end, David won.
Looks like it could have gone either way, just like the France/England game.
In 4 years time, maybe we’ll have another game of poker after an England World Cup Quarter final against China, the referee will be GPT AI, all the decisions will be fair ones and we’ll have to find a different excuse for losing.