How do you sleep after making the FT (LC)

[AceofSpades]

I really have a problem sleeping after making it deep in a tournament or final table. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to change this?

[Bonified]

Me too. I could hardly sleep at all after winning a WSOP seat last week [brag, sorry] and it would probably have been even worse if I had whiffed it heads up. I try to take half an hour off from poker before going to bed, have some hot chocolate or something like that, but it is difficult and I'm interested to hear others' responses.

[cking]

i like to just walk around and drink some water, just kinda let myself relax

[swede554]

down a beer or sip on a drink

[NoahSD]

I solve all psychological problems that poker causes the same way. I talk to someone who doesn't play poker and explain the problem.

They usually are totally shocked by whatever I have to say. So, in this example it'd be "OMG you made $x in one tournament!!!" or "OMG you would've made $y more if a K hadn't come on the river!!" or whatever.

Inevitably, when they start telling me that poker is horrible and I should quit and/or poker is awesome and I should drop out of school to make $1B/year, I start to correct them and explain that this stuff is totally normal and it all balances out to a nice decent salary in the end, and that good poker players are able to deal with this stuff. In the process, I usually convince myself that this is true.. at least temporarily.

[nath]

i drink, or smoke, or take some pills, you know, pretty much how i chill out after anything

[Bond18]

Go to GNC, ask for melatonin. Seriously.

[ QUOTE ]
I try to take half an hour off from poker before going to bed, have some hot chocolate or something like that

[/ QUOTE ]

Try sipping something without caffeine, my friend.

In any case, instead of dealing with the sleep depravity, I instead just keep telling myself how balla it is that I just outlasted (enter number of runners) to win (enter number of dollars). 90 minutes later when I'm still wired, I simply don't give a [censored].

Plain a simple though, without some sort of external substance (which I am opposed to taking), you're really not going to be able to overcome the adrenaline rush of making a FT.

Just be happy you're not posting about a different issue:

I Sleep Really Well Because I Never Make Any FTs... Problem??

[NU Star]

So far this year I've had two final tables the night before midterms...in which case I don't sleep because I was playing poker instead of studying for my midterm... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[nath]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I try to take half an hour off from poker before going to bed, have some hot chocolate or something like that

[/ QUOTE ]

Try sipping something without caffeine, my friend.

[/ QUOTE ]
Since when does hot chocolate have caffeine?