When starting with one or 2 beers it have the strange habit of ending up in emptying the whole stock and i mean mixing liquires with beer, wine or even chilisauce cause you get the munches can do some real damage to the head.

Now not to say i don’t drink and play but i’m less lucky at the pokertable with the booze than i am in ending up in deep trouble rofl

By the way more sidebet-wagers to the people

Hmm ok point taken.

I take no offence being called that, because that’s exactly what I turn into at times. As I said, I do better at omaha h/l when I’m drunk. But, I also know that when I win these games (while drinking) it’s down to one of two things.

Either I’m just ‘in the zone’ – that little place that we all get to at times where we play virtually the perfect game of poker….. or I’ve hit on a huge wedge of monkey luck!

As any of the skype crew will tell you, monkey luck will be the reason for winning more often than not. We all know alcohol impairs your brain functions and makes things look nice and pretty, even some of the worst starting hands in omaha. It stands to reason that the skillfull player, who chooses their hands will win in the long run. Monkey drunk players will find their accounts diminishing before long.

So, to cap it off, I agree with what both of ya have said. When you are playing with friends you are alowed to fall into drunk monkey mode. You gotta have some fun!!! You just have to make sure that when you sober up you go out monkey hunting to recoup any losses you might have incurred when intoxicated.

I should advise against playing any game when ya been drinkin, but damn it, it really adds some fun to a boring ass game like poker, especially if ya are pie-eyed high and shit-faced drunk.

From my experience, and I got plenty, everything seems to look a lot better when ya have had a few drinks and we all know that even the ugliest chick in the bar just has to wait till closing and some drunk-ass bastard will be thinking she is Demi Moore. Been there, done that.

We tend to overlook the flaws and the drunker we get, the blinder we become. So it only makes sense that our cards start lookin better too.

Still 9 players at the table, I’m UTG and that Ac 9c 6d Qh I’m holding becomes a nice looking starting hand.

Ok, so my cards look a little better than normal, that’s not that bad of a problem for most of the skype crew when we are playing NL Holdem because we are strong players and can win a lot of pots after the flop with a decent info bet or a continuation bet after the turn and river.

PL Omaha H/L is a different animal. Early on the blinds are so low that the plain monkeys will chase most anything to the river. Now, if we add a bit of alcohol and our cards start looking better, we become the same chasers as all the plain monkeys.

Now as the game moves along and I have that alcohol pumping thru my system, I become more aggressive. Those same crappy ass cards I thought were a good starting hand are forcing me down a path of no return, hell they ain’t forcing me, I’m running as fast as I can down that path.

I become the calling station from hell. I know that my hand is best ( well they look kinda good) and I will pay to prove it. Take me to the river and I’ll put in a pot sized bet 8 out of 10 times and by now the pots are getting fairly large.

But this is H/L so we will split a few of these pots and hang in the game for a little longer, hmmm must be time for another beer.

Ok, we been sitting on our asses slamming the beers and smoking some killer stuff for an hour or two and we’re down to the bubble and we’re short stacked.

The first marginal hand that comes our way is looked at like it’s our savior. A hand like Ac 4s 6d Qd is good enough to push it allin in a last ditch effort to double up. It usually doesn’t pay off and we bubble out.

So I guess what I’m saying is that a monkey is a monkey. Plain, drunk or aggressive doesn’t matter cause it’s all monkey play.

But I’m not saying you should never play poker when ya got a good buzz going, it’s too much fun hanging out with ya pals on skype slamming brews and getting twisted. So drink up Gopher and play omaha h/l pl cause it’s fun. We’ll all make the small amount of cash we lose drunk back when we’re sober.

Drink up folks and I hope to catch ya on skype soon …

See Ya on the Felt