RasterGFX
Rock Star
Bronze Level
I would highly advise against drinking and driving...
I mean drinking and poker....... (usually it makes you do rash things).
Usually (as in my cases, it makes me play stupid). For you it may be different however.
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I mean drinking and poker....... (usually it makes you do rash things).
Usually (as in my cases, it makes me play stupid). For you it may be different however.
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vavilen_
Rock Star
Silver Level
How do you feel about the game, and the game will treat you. I have been playing poker for more than 5 years, but I have never sat down to play poker with alcohol! for me it's like driving a car a taboo is strictly prohibited poker and alcohol are 2 different things!
AntA_KO_v
Rock Star
Silver Level
Hello everyone, I have some questions about alcohol in poker.
1) Have you drunk alcohol when you play poker either online or live?
2) What do you think of moderate alcohol consumption as a disinhibitor method to play more concentrated?
3) What is your method of concentration when you play poker?
I clarify that I am not drinking alcohol when I play regularly, although I must admit that if I like to drink very occasionally when playing and moderately.
Greetings.
Hi! I drank during the game only once and it was 14th place out of 1200 players and it was online tourney with 1 bucks buyin =) To play more concentrated I use only Puerh tea and of course food every 4 hours. I think that alcohol makes people to do more hero calls and loose theirs chips unwisely.
mrrigel
Rock Star
Silver Level
This is a great topic.
For me it varies, but definitely happens. Home game, yes, almost always.
Cash games in poker rooms I will drink a few early, loosen me (not my play, just my nerves) up a bit. When I play pool at the bar I dont shoot great until I have 2 beers in me, but if i drink to much i shoot horrible. Same logic for live cash games. 2 slow beers, then coffee. Repeat every so often with a meal in the middle. I finally learned to leave if i'm buzzed. One bad play will happen where i bluff away a lot of chips. Players (including myself) target the drunk guy.
I used to go to bed at 7PM on Fridays, wake up at 2AM and go to the Sugar House (Philly) or the Hawaiian Gardens (socal) bright eyed with coffee to take down the weekend drunk players. It worked well.
Live tourneys, rarely. If it's a 2 day event and we are at hour 9-10 waiting to bag for the next day my nerves are generally shot. I will drink 1 beer to make it all go away...
Online, same logic with a bump up in drinking. Cash games more because I can turn them off at any time. Tourneys only at the end when my nerves are fried and I'm pacing back and forth.
Always for celebration
So the clear cut, very specific answer is: sometimes, maybe.....
For me it varies, but definitely happens. Home game, yes, almost always.
Cash games in poker rooms I will drink a few early, loosen me (not my play, just my nerves) up a bit. When I play pool at the bar I dont shoot great until I have 2 beers in me, but if i drink to much i shoot horrible. Same logic for live cash games. 2 slow beers, then coffee. Repeat every so often with a meal in the middle. I finally learned to leave if i'm buzzed. One bad play will happen where i bluff away a lot of chips. Players (including myself) target the drunk guy.
I used to go to bed at 7PM on Fridays, wake up at 2AM and go to the Sugar House (Philly) or the Hawaiian Gardens (socal) bright eyed with coffee to take down the weekend drunk players. It worked well.
Live tourneys, rarely. If it's a 2 day event and we are at hour 9-10 waiting to bag for the next day my nerves are generally shot. I will drink 1 beer to make it all go away...
Online, same logic with a bump up in drinking. Cash games more because I can turn them off at any time. Tourneys only at the end when my nerves are fried and I'm pacing back and forth.
Always for celebration
So the clear cut, very specific answer is: sometimes, maybe.....
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horseshoebhole
Rock Star
Silver Level
wakng up with no bankroll
Over the past 10 years being able to legally purchase alcohol I have only had a few instances where I shouldnt have drank. Typically, it was when I was home after a fun night out and it was definitely bed time. Wake up and all of a sudden my online roll is dented and I cant figure out what. Got burned enough to not play with that fire anymore
Over the past 10 years being able to legally purchase alcohol I have only had a few instances where I shouldnt have drank. Typically, it was when I was home after a fun night out and it was definitely bed time. Wake up and all of a sudden my online roll is dented and I cant figure out what. Got burned enough to not play with that fire anymore
