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Message: [QUOTE="PhilGalfond, post: 4781667, member: 360431"] Thank you, Debi! Happy to be here! Here's a long answer to your very simple question :) I've had so many close poker friends, but as I started to reply, I realized how out of touch I've been with some friends I consider very close. My first summer in Vegas, I lived in a house with several guys from the online SNG community - Andrew Robl, Dan Quinn, Peter Jetten, Max Greenwood, and Alan Sass. I also got close to Dave Benefield, and soon after, through him, Tom Dwan. I still think of all of these people as good friends, but I've been out of touch with Alan, Max, and Peter for a while, and I'm in touch with but haven't spent much time with Tom these last few years. I was more or less out of touch with Andrew Robl for a while, as he started playing live cash games in Vegas and I focused on online poker. In the last few years, we've reconnected in Vegas (where I now live) and he's one of my best friends once again. Dan quickly became my closest poker friend, as we lived in the same town after that summer for many years, and he's also the co-founder of Run It Once and Draftboard, so we still work together nearly every day. A bit later, I became very good friends with Z and Hac Dang while we were playing nosebleed cash games on Full Tilt... Jason Senti after I met him making training videos for the same site... then Ben Tollerene while I was living in Vancouver and battling him in the big Stars PLO games... and many other great friends along the way - so many that I'm going to stop listing them for fear of making some glaring omissions! I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm realizing that while I consider myself very good friends with a lot of poker players, the games you've been playing lately have a big impact on who you spend time talking to and seeing, especially in live poker! Though I haven't been spending time with guys like Ben and Z and Hac, I still consider them very good friends, and I'd do anything for them. I guess that's probably something most everyone can relate to - in poker and outside of it. It just caught me by surprise as I started to list my best poker friends and then think, "wait - I haven't talked to him in years!" In Vegas these days, I spend the most time with my good friends Jason Koon, and Keith Gipson, who I started hanging out with in the last handful of years, and Andrew Robl and Brian Rast, who I met long ago and reconnected with. I think Dan Quinn and Jason Senti, who both work with me at RIO, are the two that stand out as poker friends I've always stayed very connected to. [/QUOTE]

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