Remember long ago when I used to post drunken rants? I got busy, got sick, couldn’t drink alcohol, and then went on a multi-weekend binge. Here I am, after a weekend of bars in my old hometown and 2 days before leaving for a 5 day weekend in Las Vegas. This is the eye of the storm between two massive drinking excursions and yes, even in the eye I am drinking. Shit, it’s my little brother’s 21st birthday. How can I not?  Read 

Poker is never a boring game. You would think that the continual shuffling of cards, folding, and winning or losing money would get boring, but when you put together a house game full of friends, something interesting is always bound to happen. If not, well I hate to break it to you, but your friends suck. I had a poker game recently at a friend’s place, where the premise of the night was to finish off all of their recent party leftovers–food and booze–play poker and dabble with the new Guitar Hero game. After some turkey and PBRs we were all set to start our game of Texas Hold Em. I lost my first twenty quickly and had to re-buy into the cash game, and was getting a bit bored with the situation until somebody heroically came up with a drinking game to go along with our game of cards. The rules to the game were simple–whoever makes the best five card hand out of anybody who folds at any time in the hand has to take a shot.  Read