Where do we go now?

Rolly had another poker tournament at his place on Saturday night; it was a good evening. I won the last one we had there, though I knew the other players would be a little wiser and cleverer this time around.

I decided my drink for the evening was going to be Jack Daniels. I don’t drink lager very much at all these days so a six pack was out and whiskey also seems like a more appropriate drink for playing cards. We also broke out a few Cuban cigars, brought all the way back from Havana by Rolly a couple of months ago.

It seems like a pretty standard stereotype, blokes, poker, cigars and whiskey! But there’s the problem; poker and alcohol don’t mix. Or at least I should say poker and alcohol don’t mix if you have any designs on winning the tournament.

I played very well at the start and was very soon the early chip leader; however as the level of Jack Daniels remaining in the bottle decreased, so did my chip stack. In the end, after 2 of the most ridiculous raises you could expect to see made, my chip stack had gone, and so had all my Jack Daniels. They were bets I wouldn’t have made if I was sober, but I did because I threw caution to the wind and hoped for the best; which is often a symptom of having had a few.

And so I was banished to Playstation land but it wasn’t really a big deal. If the buy in was more than £20 then it might have been a different story and all that matters really is that is was fun.

My hangover on Sunday was not nearly as bad as it should have been given that I had consumed an entire bottle of Jack Daniels the night before. In fact, a fry up managed to sort me out pretty quickly.

Sunday didn’t promise much; that was until Josh swapped his Wii with his brother in law’s Xbox 360. More importantly though was that the Xbox came with Guitar Hero II. There was only one song on here that I was interested in playing: Sweet Child of Mine. So many times have I played air guitar to that song, here was finally a chance to press some buttons on a guitar shaped Xbox controller which will, if done correctly, sound like I am playing the lead guitar on that song! One step closer to reality than air guitar.

I’m hooked!