I have a very odd cure to alcoholism

I suppose you could mark this down as "trading addictions" however the "new addiction" hasn't caused me life problems like Alcohol and becoming a twice honored exalted D Dub club member under my belt has.

Ok so I'm not saying this will work for everyone. Probably won't in fact for 99% of you, but there are a variety of factors leading this to "cure" my alcoholism. I should probably get this off my chest to begin with I'm Autistic, I think people should know this before dealing with me or something I post because I'm already an odd character to begin with, if I rub you the wrong way thats ok because I rub a lot of people the wrong way, you're not alone.

#1 I am extremely careful with money, at least when I'm not spending $2,000 on lawyer fees for victimless non-violent DWI charges that caused society exactly $0 damage to life and property, while my brother totals a car texting and driving and faces no penalty because under the code of law, totaling a car while texting and driving as well as destroying city property (ran over a street sign) in the process of totalling a 3 week old car is deemed "responsible driving" by our society when compared to the horrible victimless non-violent crime of a short drive to a fast food restaurant at 1 am when no cars are on the road anyways and being caught DWI. Anyways, If there is one thing I have always been GREAT at in life, it's been managing money. I have the managing money potential of being wealthy some day IMO, I'm 29 now but the future looks bright as ever and I have never been short on cash, always lived within my means, I've always had investments backing me up no matter how meager my earnings, I always put cash aside and for the most part never spend money frivolously, I only spend it on items I truly will enjoy, get use out of and get more than my moneys worth out of (such as a new PC build currently).

#2, I like to gamble. I freakin LOVE the casino. Odd isn't it? Someone who is careful with money but loves the casino, and loves to gamble? This doesn't add up so far. Well heres the deal I found the ONE game in the casino, that you can reliably win at, however I don't play in the Casino (yet) I play online.

#3 Online Poker. It just works for me. I use to abuse alcohol on a near daily basis for around 2 years, 2 years ago. My liver probably hated me for it, I"d drink 7 alcoholic beverages easily, but sometimes I'd drink a 5th in a SINGLE sitting (actually probably not that impressive to my fellow alcoholics if you're really known what alcoholism is all about) GO STEEL RESERVE!. Ok so my first year at Online Poker, I blew about $1,000 playing microstakes $.05bb and $.10bb tables. This is pretty impressive to blow $1,000 playing the lowest possible stakes, but most of it can be attributed to playing drunk as well as general n00bishness.

About 2 years ago, not long after I got my 2nd DWI, I woke up from a drunken stupor, and noticed that my poker account was missing about $90 in it from the day before. I had figured out exactly what happened by retracing my steps. I got totally shitfaced blackout drunk, logged onto my PC, and blew $90 of real money on my poker account. And I had drank a $5.50 5th of vodka the night before, and that 5th of vodka from the night before wound up costing me $95.50 instead of the $5.50 I had paid. For some reason victimless non-violent DWI's that caused society exactly $0 in damage to life and property and are a complete double standard when compared to equally or much more dangerous forms of #######5 sober driving (street racing, texting and driving, cellphone while driving, eating while driving, driving while sleepy, etc. etc.)don't cause me to feel shame, guilt or regret/remorse even when the final tally of the legal fees adds up to multiple $thousands, but losing $90 in my poker rubbed me the WRONG WAY as my inner-miser in me said I should have never lost that money to begin with.

From that day forward, probably just over 2 years ago, my drinking of alcohol, abusing it, drastically dropped off. I came to find that even when I was playing over tiny amounts of cash, $10, $20 pots at 5nl or 10nl ($.05bb/$.10bb) if I wanted to have any remote chance of not losing massive amounts of cash, I needed to remain sober.

I'm not a recovering alcoholic, I've defeated the addiction to the point that if I do drink, it's a single beverage, I have a single Tequila sunrise, but I never abuse it. If I have one true weakness when it comes to alcoholism its only cheap bum alcohol (because I am extremely careful with money after all and would never waste $40+ on alcohol for one nights drunken haze). I would much rather be playing my poker games, making inconsequential amounts of $$ than sit at home with little to do with an alcohol buzz, that will get me royally ###$ if I happen to decide I feel like driving that night.

From that $30 poker bankroll from 2 years ago, I'm up to around $1,200. Granted I'm making about $.10 an hour at this rate, but hey, whatever keeps me from blowing $8 a night on cheap bum alcohol to get constantly shitfaced drunk works for me, even if I was a losing player.

Well, as long as you only lose small amounts of money during one pay period it sounds fine. I would only say to be on the look out for the habit to worsen.
Regarding DWI's I see your point up to an extent but I also have a cousin who was paralyzed from the neck down by a drunk driver accident. I can't say it's true for you but most people have driven drunk many times for each conviction they had. I agree about the texting while driving though, I won't ride with someone doing that.

No I don't lose. I'm closer to a professional gambler than most. lookin at my roll now,I got $1627 in the account and my initial deposit over a year ago was $30. When I get to $1800 I'll have a 6000% Return on Investment, which is pretty impressive for only using $30 out of my own pocket. My biggest investment has been time more than money.

As for drunk driving, I think ALL FORMS OF BAD DRIVING are evil and should require jail time. I want to see not just drunks go to jail, texter and drivers, heroin addicts behind the wheel, people who street race, yap on their phone, ESPECIALLY ROAD RAGERS, THEY ARE WORSE THAN DRUNKS BEHIND THE WHEEL, People who eat while they drive, you know the kind of stuff that makes me mad when I see it happening when I'm driving but I can't do anything about it nor can a cop because none of those horrible driving habits result in arrest and jail time. I think all Americans who have bad driving habits even if they're sober, not just drunk driving, should be getting arrested, penalized heavily with $thousands in legal fees, and spending time in prison for years if they're a repeat offender.