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

[neuroman]

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.

[mr pink]

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

[mosquito]

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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]

[Goodnews]

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.

[girgy44]

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.

[archmagi]

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.

[WarDekar]

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.

[toots]

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.