Playing under mind altering substances

[Boris]

hahaha!

[astroglide]

harvard grads playing $25 plo. for shame [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[GreywolfNYC]

Peyote buds, but they're hard to come by these days. Hoka hey!

[addickt]

I believe sedatives make me play better... particularly xanax.. Not sure about focus, but calms me down and keeps me from getting too excited or tilting.. I think caffeine etc.. would be detrimental to my game..

I know many people that use adderall or other uppers to play.. guess it depends on your baseline persona

[addickt]

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I used to drink a can of this now then and cuz it really got me Jonesing. I felt incredibly focused. Nowadays, a lot of the younger kids drink this stuff like friggin water.

Your friend is an idiot.. There is nothing hepatoxic in red bull.

I haven't drank it since this Dr. friend of mine told me how hard this stuff is on your liver. If he's right, there's gonna be a lot of 40 year olds with some real bad livers in the next 30 years.

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[addickt]

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Any sort of stimulant is very bad for your game.

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i'd totally disagree with that. adderall, etc would probably help a ton.

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Adderral is meth, you think playing on meth would be good too?

Stimulants are horrendous for poker play.. Unless you love tilting

[addickt]

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I can't talk about poker but I am close with many of the top bridge players in the world. Many of them smoke pot. One of them is always stoned whenever he plays. And you can tell just from speaking to him that he is quite stoned. Another top player was on cocaine through the '80s


but is now clean and still playing to a WC level.

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One of the top 5 players in the world was one of the biggest coke heads around.. I would be broke quick if I was strill using coke.. Other than the fact that I used to blow a 1/4 oz a day, It would me kme far too irritable to take bad beats.. I would likely get a murder charge after a 3rd runner runner beat

[partygirluk]

Well I found it really strange that they would take drugs when playing bridge at the top level. So I asked them about it. And the reasoning went something like this:

When you get to that level, 98% of your decisions are automatic, i.e. you don't need to be at your most alert to get them right. The other 2% require lateral thinking, or "thinking out of the box". If they took some weed it would help them think in ways that they would not have sober, and thus spot something brilliant.

[tpir90036]

the internet is good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall

[SA125]

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ive never smoked pot before

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Man, I was too young for Woodstock and I still feel old.