On a brighter note: Who here drinks less because of online poker?
 

I dont like to drink while I play poker. Ive found that my frequency and durration of drinking has dropped off a lot since starting to play on line. It has only been a week though so I might change my mind. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I guess poker has brought a brief moment of meaning into my life.

Greg

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from one addiction to the next

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from one addiction to the next

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Yes but the old one is fairly destructive, the new one isnt necessarily. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Greg

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i drink about as much online as i do live, which is a fair amount usually
MGD and High Life, i alternate
(high life is the champagne of beers you know)

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Uze can get way too loose on the juice.

/M

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from one addiction to the next

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$>hangover.

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Given the huge oppurtunity cost for getting drunk, my drinking dropped off rapidly and substantially when i started playing online poker. It never recovered.

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Huh.

I have a collection of maybe 20 bottles of various single malt scotches, and one bottle of Jonnie Walker Blue.

I rarely drink any of it. Poker doesn't change things one way or the other.

To drink, I have to have little else planned (since I don't wanna get behind the wheel), I have to be in a fairly good mood, and fairly alert. Otherwise, not interested.

I'm much more likely to have a frozen sissy drink when I'm out for dinner with friends. About the only time I actually get drunk is the celebratory sh**face that I treat myself to after a particularly good winning session at a B&M.

Sadly, those are less common than I'd like to admit.

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this has been huge for me. i've gone from going out drinking huge amounts 4 nights a week. to only twice a week b/c of poker. also at $50-$80/night to go out plus the $50/night in winnings, that's like $800/month right there. not to mention the +EV from no hangovers the next day.

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I deffinatly drink less, and smoke alot less weed too.
Poker has tought me about money management also.
It has made me re-evaluate my priorities in life, for the better. Not to mention my wife loves to play as much as I do, so I have nothing but great things to say about poker.

But to answer the posted question, yes, I drink considerably less booze!! And that is a good thing.

*mike*

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I sure as hell should drink less when I play online. The point is slowly being driven home to me as I've had several sessions where I was drinking earlier in the evening, started playing some online poker, and lost money playing like a drunken maniac.

I need to remember to use play money when I feel the itch to play when drunk.

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i also find i eat less and sleep better when im finished a long session.

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I dont like to drink while I play poker. Ive found that my frequency and durration of drinking has dropped off a lot since starting to play on line. It has only been a week though so I might change my mind. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I guess poker has brought a brief moment of meaning into my life.

Greg

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This is a really funny read if you replace "drinking"
with "thinking". LOL [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I smoked some reefer and after hanging out and stuff, I played some poker, luckily I went on a rush but today I looked over the couple hundred of hands I played and I found I could have made alot more money (ie flopped stone nuts, and I raise UTG into a field of 8).

Substance abuse is only -EV.

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I think that weed and poker can mix quite nicely. I find that I play quite well when high, probably just a little bit worse than when sober. As for drinking and playing I do it, but I know I am not even close to as good as when sober. To answer the actual question though I don't drink less, but that is mainly because I really don't want to allow poker to cut into my drinking time. For anyone in college: poker<<<drinking.

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It has. Instead of going down to the pub in weeknihgts, I sit in front of the monitor and play.

On the subject of replacing bad habits, I saw an article in Vanity Fair, about how Poker is taking over Hollywood. It was saying that Poker has now replaced the hard drugs of the 80's for Hollywood stars.

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I'm in college. IF I'm in a serious mode of playing and want to make some cash it definitely cuts into time I would normally spend drinking, but as the OP said I do smoke on occassion. I find that it doesn't affect me much, if at all, and sometimes I think it even helps me concentrate. I have no scientific studies to back this up, but just from my own experiences and opinion.

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Speaking as someone who spent a few years working at a small private college, I am somewhat encouraged that there's something that young males can do to socialize that doesn't involve getting poopie-faced.

Of course, it does have addiction potential, which does seem to be the key, but still, maybe we can look forward to fewer deaths?

Oh yeah. I forgot about string betting.