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I don't know if you recall the late snooker player Bill Werbeniuk: -
Alcohol consumption
Werbeniuk was noted for the copious amounts of alcohol he consumed before and during matches – at least six pints before a match and then one pint for each frame. In total, he drank between 40 and 50 pints of lager per day.[1][3] Doctors advised Werbeniuk to drink alcohol to counteract a familial benign essential tremor.[4] Later in his career he also took propranolol, a beta blocker, to cope with the effects of his alcohol consumption on his heart.[5]Bill was also famously reported in the UK tabloid press as successfully claiming the cost of 6 pints of lager before every match as a tax deductible expense.[2]
Some of Werbeniuk's most famous feats of drinking include: 76 cans of lager during a game with John Spencer in Australia in the 1970s;[1] 43 pints of lager in a snooker match/drinking contest against Scotsman Eddie Sinclair in which, after Sinclair had passed out following his 42nd pint, Werbeniuk was reported to say "I'm away to the bar now for a proper drink";[6] 28 pints of lager and 16 whiskies over the course of 11 frames during a match against Nigel Bond, in January 1990 – after which Werbeniuk then consumed an entire bottle of Scotch to "drown his sorrows" after losing the match.[1]
Manc_Ronnie-
Yeah that dude, what a beast he was. My pool playing probably peaks somewhere between the second and third pint and then goes into a long, slow decline
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I was diagnosed with benign essential tremor at 17 and advised that alcohol would help. I have been drinking constantly since then but can’t say it’s really helped. I clearly need to double my dosage to 40-50 pints.
Jimmy_Fingers
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Ha exactly this. Both pool and cycling are enhanced by either two pints or tramadol