Poker Poker Poker!: [vpFREE] Re: Smoking Bans

> 3b. Re: Smoking Bans - WAS Jean Scott's Frugal Vegas BLOG - 13 JAN 2008
> Posted by: "mickeycrimm" mickeycrimm@yahoo.com mickeycrimm
> Date: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:51 am ((PST))
>
> It's called social drinking. My IQ goes up 10 points with every
> drink. Why would I want to drink alone where nobody can tell how
> smart I've become?

This answer explains a lot :)

> How weird is this? You would think a booze hound like me who just
> happens to spend about 300 days per year gambling in casinos would
> get thousands of dollars per year in comped alcoholic beverages.
> WRONG!!! I'm a stone cold teetotaler when playing machines or live
> poker. I don't want to see the stuff when I'm working. And it's not
> out of any conviction about gambling and drinking. I simply can't
> stand to drink when I'm working, and I can't stand to work when I'm
> drinking.
>

Interestingly, it sounds like you don't LIKE to drink and play at the same time -- for me, it's a playing decision -- I know that alcohol impairs people, and have no reason to assume I'm a special exception, and I don't want to make mistakes while playing, especially when I might not even realize I'm making them - so I don't drink alcohol while playing - anything - unless the game is a no-brainer. When I was younger, a friend and I used to go into the bacarrat pit, when the limits were much lower, and make off-setting bets of the minimum amount, me on the bank and him on the player -- thus assuring we'd pay about 0.5% (or whatever the commission was on wins) of our action --- and then we'd drink as much as we could get them to bring us. Drinks cost us tips and the 0.5%, and half the fun was that this was not very well received in the stuffy baccarat pit.

> I don't know why idiot slobs like me have all the luck in the world.
> I've been smoking for 42+ years. I've been a booze hound for just
> about as many years. I was drinking in bars by the time I was 15. I
> down shots and chase it with beer like it is nothing. I eat all the
> stuff that is not good for you. I'm pushing 55 years old but I can
> still get out and walk 5 to 10 miles a day with ease. I do it at
> least a few times a week. And to this day I've never been to a
> Doctor. How do you go to see a Doctor? I have no clue.
>

My 55 y.o. brother-in-law is the same way - a life of smoking, eating, drinking, and riding motorcycles as much as he wants, without any consequences. Don't worry about how to get to the doctor, they'll take you the way they took him - in a helicopter and/or ambulance - when he finally had his heart attack last summer.

--BG

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