I smoke almost every time I play, but it depends how stoned I get as to how well I am going to do. With some Grade A chronic 1 hit will put me in a good place where I am not distracted by other things, yet not too stoned where I just stare off into the screen not paying attention at all.
It totally depends on the person and the dose. I have smoked for almost half my life, 1 person brought up smoking a couple times a week and said they had memory problems, Ive smoked every day for years and have still been the person that everyone depends on to remember everything, and I remember stuff the sober and drunks completely forget about. Yes, I have memory problems sometimes, but I only forget the stuff I didnt care to remember anyway.
Now as too doing better while stoned compared to sober its hard to say. I do better with just a couple tokes, but my friend can't play poker at all. He is amazed that I actually do good when high.
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As some one else said, I am usually high or smoke atleast a couple times a day, so to me being stoned playing poker is like being normal. Back in high school, the days I would go in not stoned were the days that everyone thought I was high.
No need to go on tilt when you can't even remember how you were knocked out of your last tournament. The bad beat story won't linger.
