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    Default Playing Poker Intoxicated..

    Lol weird topic just wondering if anyone has had positive or negative results playing under the influence. If so what were you on?

    My 2.50 I won on the freeroll MTT for Carbon got donked off last night when i came home after drinking a little and took some anxiety medication (xanex) wasnt off my rocker or nothing , just a lil intoxicated.
    Was playing micro like .04/.08 blinds , up like a dollar, and got JJ , no raises too me , raise a nice pf raise 2 callers. Flop comes rag rag rag...so i bet in a pot size raise and get raised a dollar.....automatically went all in. He hadQQ , i guess mainly it stops me from thinking deeper about whats going on if im intoxicated. I never drink when i play at the casino and usually only have a few beers during home games.
    Guess if i was sober i might of folded to his dollar raise under the impression he called with a small pp and hit a set. Really don't think i could of put him on QQ. Ehhh it was only 2.50 so im not discouraged or anything just felt like posting a new topic.
    I've had way worse swings playing drunk at home games....start out good , take almost everyones money , up 100 or more. , than few hours later and a pint and a half later i start playing like a real maniac. Thats why i vouch to not drink at all while playing because one beer will usually lead to 12.

    On another tip , being off the white (mike the mouth's favorite) i played quite good at my home game. No one could have a telll because i was practically so high i was shaking and sweating regardless of what i had. I seemed to get a lot more action and came out well over 100 profit that time.

    Anyone watch PAD? Season one , the episodes with ivey , tony g , hellmuth , matasuw and i forget the others , you can tell the mouth is higher than a kite off coke. He's constantly gritting his teeth and twitching with his face. It was hilarious watching it.
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    Well basically, and I'll sum this up in one line

    Intoxication = - ev
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    As long as i stay focused I can play pretty well up to a quite high level of drunkenness.

    (I am talking tipsy, not falling over and throwing up in my shoes here!)
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    What seasider said. Trouble is, you have no guarantee you WILL be able to remain focused, that's the problem.
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    i used to shoot stick quite a bit, and found a groove everytime that 3rd brew hit me belly. but, after 6, it was back to the rail. back then, had a decent tolerance, but for some reason, those were the magic numbers.

    i assume it may be the same with poker.

    hmmmmm, i feel an experiment coming on soon.
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    Heh, I agree. If I go bowling, I need a pint and a half to reach my peak skill level, then from 2 pints on it rapidly falls away and after 3 pints I am probably 50 points less competent.
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    Everytime I play live, whether home or in a Casino, I have 2 shots o' scotch about 10 minutes before sitting down. No more, no less. I feel that it obscures any tells I may have and calms me down. After the first hour or so it wears off, but by then I'm not nervous anymore anyway. Works for me. btw I never drink when playing online.
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    [quote="bigred"]Have you really thrown up in your shoe?[/quote

    Maby someone elses, who maby was a girl, who maby I was going out with.

    Who says romance is dead!

    I didn't actually ask her if she fancied a few friendly hands at the time, so I am really kind of guessing. Perhaps a field test this Friday...
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    I have been very good at not playing cash games drunk.

    However I went through a phase of playing play money SnG's after big nights out, won 5 in a row despite being barely able to type (had to use the slider bar more than I normally do). Pointless exercise really.
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    Yeah i used to play fucked up, but after awhile the other players would get pissed about the needle hanging out of my arm.

    Did he just raise a syringe?

    Sucks cause if you nod off, you hand gets mucked...

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