This was a short, small unofficial meetup. David and I ate and played for an hour. We only managed to play a single game. We used one of the travel boards that Joel gave me at the Crystal City meetup a couple weeks ago.
David said he was going to let me win. He jumped out to a big lead early in the game. I came back and took the lead down the stretch. Just before the last hand he offered to pay for my meal, because (as he jokingly suggested) he was going to win.
We were within 3 points of one another at the beginning of the final hand. He dealt and I was one point shy of having enough points in my hand to win. I scored a couple points on a 15 thus giving me the extra points I needed to win. The next to last card David played was a 5. All I had left was a 5. I played it and scored a couple more points. I was still short of 121. Then he played his final card, another 5 and scored six points, enough to put him across the finish line. I never got a chance to count the points in my hand. *sigh*
If I had played anything other than a 5, he would not have won the game on that play.
