"Drunk Dice shooters are better" is a fact ...

Did you ever notice how the drunkest player on the craps table was often the luckiest "best" shooter of the session !!   Seasoned craps players will often bet on the drunk shooter --- others scoff at this as a superstition.  


A new study may actually prove that a drunk craps player can be better based on fact, not superstition.  According to researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago:

They found that men with a couple beers under their belts were actually better at ...  creative problem-solving tasks,” psychologist Jennifer Wiley reported on the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) site.

Getting the dice to work for you on a live craps table definitely involves "creative problem-solving" skills.  Additionally, it is known that alcohol actually suppresses parts of the brain that are used for math skills.  This combination can be helpful on the craps table, especially by those dice tossers that are distracted (or lose focus) by the math or betting thought processes (press, don't press, regress, odds, etc.)  Simply put - alcohol diminishes the attributes of the Left Brain (math) and augments those of the Right Brain (creative).


Therefore, alcohol can reduce the interference that the left brain (math) has over the right brain (creative).  This interference is what I refer to as short-circuiting your right brain ... or Brain Fog:  

... brain fog lapses in concentration can also result in individuals losing their train of thought ... 

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/204035-brain-fog-symptoms/#ixzz1rsaCgmIb

Again, as with most so-called craps' superstitions, there can be real cause-effect relationships at play.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/beer-men-smarter-study-article-1.1059752#ixzz1rsPqwicY