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 

For anyone who was keeping track, I haven’t been drinking for a couple of weeks. I was on medication that reacted to alcohol like the drug Anibuse does. That isn’t good. Anibuse is the drug that they give to alcoholics in rehab. It makes you hate alcohol like Mel Gibson hates __________ (insert race that isn’t his own). My “February” or sober month ended a little early because the medication that reacts poorly with alcohol also reacts poorly with me, so I’m officially not taking it anymore. I had to celebrate and the Pierside was created.  Read