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milkman United States. Aug 07 2007 04:06. Posts 5719 | | |
WARNING!! before u read this, i found it VERY boring after i wrote it.. VERY boring while i wrote it, and i didnt even read over it after i wrote it in fear of literally dieing from the bordem.. i thought this would be a kina fun experiement, but it really wasnt. And i never got around to smoking the pot, which was more then likely going to be the cooler half of the experiment.. anyway im going to post it anyway.. and maybe some night get around to doing the other half of the experiment.
Tonight i have decided to do a scientific expeirament for the good of poker.
My ob<x>jective is to find out the differences in my poker game on different common drugs.
Drug A is caffeine, Drug B is Marijuana.
Music will also be applied to the mix of things, while on my caffeine buzz, i will only be listening to techo
consisting mainly of Armin, Infected Mushroom, and Daftpunk.
While stoned i will only be listening to recordings of sean nolan.. lol jk i will be listening to
Citizen Cope, The Fugees, Aerosmith, a tiny bit of Jack Johnson, and Steve Miller Band.
For a little background on myself, i dont really ever smoke pot, i used to, but i had a horrible experience
and havent taken another shot at it since then. I dont ever really drink soda, if i normall drink something
that has caffeine in it, its a monster energy drink, and thats maybe once or twice a month.
The game plan is to play 4 tables of 6max, nl25 (moving down for saftey). Im going to just kinda play
by feel, not so much trying to hard to stick to one st<x>yle, hopefully letting everything just take its course.
Im going to play as many hands as i can, then graph them, and take notes along the way..
Im going to start withe caffeine first because its easy to tell when it has run its course.
Some interesting facts i found on wikipedia about the effects on memory and learning.
Effects on memory and learning
An array of studies found that caffeine could induce certain changes in memory and learning. In one study, caffeine
was added to rat neurons in vitro. The dendritic spines (a part of the brain cell used in forming
connections between neurons) taken from the hippocampus (a part of the brain associated with
memory), grew by 33% and new spines formed. After an hour or two, however, these cells returned
to their original shape.[69]
Another study showed that subjects — after receiving 100 milligrams of caffeine — had increased
activity in brain regions located in the frontal lobe, where a part of the working memory network is
located, and the anterior cingulum, a part of the brain that controls attention. The caffeinated subjects
also performed better on the memory tasks.[70]
However, a different study showed that caffeine could impair short term memory and increase the
likelihood of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. The study allowed the researchers to suggest that
caffeine could aid short-term memory when the information to be recalled is related to the current
train of thought, but also to hypothesize that caffeine hinders short-term memory when the train of
thought is unrelated.[71] In essence, focused thought coupled with caffeine consumption increases
mental performance.
Anyway, i will be injesting the caffeine by snorting 400MG of pure caffeine, then drinking a monster
that has about 160mg of caffeine in it. The LD50 for caffeine is 150 to 200mg per kilo of bodymas.
I do weigh over 4 kilos so ill be fine but it looks like i will be experiencing Caffeiene intoxiaction
which may include restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushing of the face, increased
urination, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, a rambling flow of thought and speech,
irritability, irregular or rapid heart beat, and psychomotor agitation.
Im on a totally empty stomach so
the gastrointestinal distrubance is prolly gonna suck balls... anyway here we go!
Oh btw i may decide to space this out over 2 nights, but im going to try and do it all tonight.
SESSION NOTES:
1:25ish - i injested the caffeine
1:55 - caffeine has deff kicked in, tables r up.
so far just kinda feelings i would expect, very very anxious for the tables to start up.
and just constantly wanting shit to go faster.. kinda feel heavy chested.. little hard to breathe..
2:01 - fuck PAhud for failing on me now..
2:07 - so far pretty card dead, playing 16/12,, 75 hands in, down 1.5 buyins.
2:13 - pee break
2:17 - so far besides playing a little scatter brained ive just been getting coolered alot lol...
but im just gonna keep on track here and see where it goes.. im down almost 2 buyins now
reaching the 125 hand mark.
2:25 - time is going by very very slowly, seems like ive been playing for a very long time..
2:27 - made a buyin back with top set, interesting thing happened, i doubled through the guy
then he ran, kinda like a donate and run...
2:29 - as far as side effects from the caffeine, my face is very flushed, my vision seems jerky,
im constantly distracted by a bumb on my ear lobe, and my stomach hurts like shit. but my check
raising skills are sitll 100% intact. im actually contemplating sitting out, posting my blinds OOP
and check raising preflop, just as a sort of uber image builder...
2:34 - accidently 4bet WAY 2 much with AA, deff result of the caffeine.
2:38 - doomer is interupting my science with his retard car talk.
2:42 - havent really made very many notes, normally i note almost every pla<x>yer at a table, havent
really been able to make any sick calls r anything either.. cant really focus enough.
2:47 - pee break, at 330h now.
2:50 - ive realized that poker is really fuckin boring when u dont really care about the money.
2:53 - im thinkin about stopping at 500 hands, and doing the rest tomorrow or maybe not at all..
2:55 - most of my tables broke up, i was up a buyin but now im down a little bit because sum nub floped
middle set vs my tptk. basically down like 10$ ish, at around 400 hands, that seem to have taken WAY
2 long.. and the caffeine has wore off and i dont really feel like pulling up more tables..
SUMMARY:
well in summary, i cant really remember anything in specific about the session, i was going to graph the
hands, but it was just varience, nothing really special happeend, i just playd poker like i had no short
term memory for about an hour.. i was hoping for something a little more cool to come out of all of this.
I dont really think im gonna even try out smoking, i think itd just be a waste of good pot lol..
I duno, if anyone actually liked reading this and found it at all interesting i might try it out, but
overall i think it was pretty fuckin boring and unseless..
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you dont smoke weed to win at poker, u win at poker to smoke weed |
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qwerty67890 New Zealand. Aug 07 2007 07:57. Posts 14026 | | |
i pretty much drink nothing but soda
thus, im always really awake and energetic or completely burnt out (like now)
there was a period back when i was gaming when i didnt drink anything but diet coke for about 10 months. I used to go through on average 2 - 4 litres a day. Its not good for you and will eventually make you feel/play worse than if you just drank water but water tastes like crap so who cares.
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seatown12 United States. Aug 07 2007 08:36. Posts 1193 | | |
pretty gnarly that you railed pure caffeine, i almost always have an e-drink before a sesh and i think its good for my play, do the weed half i bet your terrible |
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doubt you'd be able to log everything as clearly too, so def. do a video of it
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