Gambling and Drinking, Do They Go Hand in Hand? The Impact of Drinking on Gambling Behaviors and Game Outcomes in Texas Hold’em Poker Short Game

Tianqing Zheng ()
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Tianqing Zheng: University of Manchester

A chapter in New Perspectives and Paradigms in Applied Economics and Business, 2023, pp 219-251 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Gambling and drinking often go hand in hand, and there is a close relationship between gamblers drinking alcohol and gambling behaviors. The main purpose of this paper is to study the impact of players’ drinking on their gambling behaviors and game outcomes in Texas Hold’em Poker Short Game, and then analyze how drinking leads to gambling behaviors and game outcomes. Few existing studies have investigated the relationship between the alcohol and gamblers’ behaviors, and this paper is the first to study the relationship between gamblers’ drinking and gambling behaviors and game results in Texas Hold’em Poker Short Game, as well as gambling behaviors affected by the alcohol and other related influencing factors, not only providing the practical significance for analyzing the impact of drinking on gambling behaviors and outcomes in gambling games, but also adding to the limited literature on the effects of the alcohol on players’ behaviors in Poker Games (note that, by no means, is this paper arguing that people should drink to improve gambling success). The results indicate that drinking people are more likely to win than non-drinking people when comparing the times of winning. Alcohol also affects various behaviors of drinking players at any stage (pre-flop, post-flop, turn and river) and drinking gamblers are less likely to give up than non-drinking gamblers, but more likely to all-in, bet, check, raise bet, and call one’s bet at any stage.

Keywords: Alcohol; Gambler; Gambling behavior; Poker game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23844-4_17

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