6 Quotes by Gary Suffir

I was delighted she said yes and we agreed we'd get married in Vegas to try and recreate that great week we had when we first met in January.

We exchanged photographs three months later and in January I went to Vegas for some temp attorney work, to play some poker and meet Jackie. The day before we met, we actually spoke on the telephone for the first time. I knew we had a connection, but didn't know where it would go. I'd never met anyone on the Internet before, let alone on a poker site. We only used IM for such a long time, but I felt the closeness between us.

We thought that if the baby is a boy we could call it Mike after Mike Sexton but in honor of the way we met we'll call him Chip. If our baby is a girl we may call her Linda after Linda Johnson, the first lady of poker, but Queenie is a possibility.

I told her that Jeff Buckley brings a tear to my eye. By coincidence Jackie was a Buckley fan had been to a Bright Eyes concert the night before and I really liked him too. It blew my mind that I'd met a woman who was not only into the same music, but with whom I could talk about Omaha poker strategy. When I first started chatting to Jackie I was even unaware that she was a woman because it's often hard to tell by the nicknames people use online.

I don't think so - my chips would be on Chip.

The day before we met, we actually spoke on the telephone for the first time. I knew we had a connection, but I didn't know where it would go. I never met anyone on the Internet before, let alone a poker site. We only used IM for such a long time, but I felt the closeness between us.