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One of the poker players has come in handy professionally: Ben, a die-hard fan of the Philadelphia 76ers, helped me with multiple articles I wrote about the N.B.A. Aaron, whom I have never met, sent me a homemade beer brewing kit. The relationships quickly became about more than poker. And then there were the one-on-one games with my friend Alex, another person with whom online poker greased the wheels for a friendship. And suddenly, I had become friendly with yet another group of people whom I probably never would have met otherwise. A friend at work invited me to join his weekly poker game that he and his friends had started with a similar setup. Soon, I realized that we weren’t the only ones who had sought out this hybrid Zoom-poker virtual outlet for comfort. In the absence of happy hours and normal workplace socializing, they became a respite from the monotony and seclusion that was suddenly our collective normal. And while I did not quite realize it as it was happening, I became close with this group of strangers. Our amateur saloon, which could be open for more than four hours at a time, became a regular meeting spot, weekly and occasionally multiple times a week. But this game brought all of us to the same place at the same time. One even tuned in from London at a ridiculous hour. Myki’s friends were scattered all around the country. In the pandemic version of the game, each player - and there were up to 14 of us - would download an online poker app and then get on a group video call as we played and act as if we were in the backyard. Sporadic? Occasional? Oh, actually, the words I’m looking for are not good. Before last year, he would host a low-stakes game on Fridays in his backyard for everyone to de-stress from their workweeks. Immediately after much of the United States went on lockdown last March, Myki offhandedly invited me to play a poker game with his college friends in the midst of one of our first catch-up conversations. I have developed real bonds with people through poker, which is, ironically, a game inherently built on mistrust. But, I will miss one thing about quarantine life whenever it’s over.
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