I’ll Never Understand It
I was reading another blog just now and at the end, a well known poker player posted a link to a video. She mentioned that she was told that her and her friend looked drunk in the video. They talk about how its so cool and hilarious to go around drunk and acting an idiot. I just don’t get it.
This just reminded me of a lot of things that I saw at the WSOP and with poker in general that just makes me scratch my head. A lot of people fail to realize that one alchoholic drink, even beer, is enough to change you on a chemical level. This affects everything, whether its noticable or not. People drink at the poker tables while they are playing the game. Some just drink one or two drinks, but some drink to excess. Isabelle Mercier is one example of players who got trashed at the table. She got in such a state as to where she had to remove herself from the tournament and try to sober up. That was just one example of many of players that got trashed while playing. Some ended up doing fine, while others just drank themselves right out of the event. For someone like Mercier it doesn’t matter due to the fact that she has most, if not all, of her tournament buy-in’s covered. However, Mr. I am from Oklahoma and came out here for my vacation is risking $1,500 upwards and taking a huge risk by drinking at the table.
Another thing I saw a lot of was people drinking while on the job. Now I know that poker is a different lifestyle and that most jobs are pretty lax, but I have always been of the mindset that certain activities are to be done off the clock. Lunch hour is still “on the clock” in my never to be considered or confused to be a humble opinion. Now granted, a lot of people didn’t go overboard with their drinking on the clock, but there were some that always seemed to have a drink in their hand.
I personally will never get the appeal of drinking. Of course, I happen to be one of those people where alchohol totally flip flops my mood. That’s why I don’t drink. An incident occurred between two people I work with. One guy decided that he was going to talk shit about someone else and this person apparently read it. Some words were exchanged a couple of days later in regards to what was said. Later that night, the guy that had the stuff said about him got drunk and decided that the appropriate retaliation would be to punch the guy in the nuts. That’s drunk logic for you folks. First, I will say that the guy should have probably not been going around talking shit about someone while he was still working with the guy. With that being said, sucker punching someone in the nuts is uncalled for. Would this have happened if alchohol wasn’t involved. My guess would be no. I would be the ball punching guy if I was a regular drinker, and for less.
No, there really isn’t a big point to all this. I just felt like writing about it.
Tags: Alchohol, World Series of Poker