Not sure that I understand your question.
If someone drinks too much, they will liekly fall down and then be possibly under the table.
As you suggest, to drink somemone under the table is to out-drink them, to be able to drink as much as them and suffer a lesser effect, for example to not be so drunk as to be under the table, when they are.
It's used rather figuratively to mean a lesser amount of drinking.
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So in this sense in yellow, it means that one small drink and the writer would be drunk.