Re: Doping (use of performance-enhancing drugs) in Poker
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We are all aware that Caffeine (a stimulant) is the most popular performance-enhancing drug among tournament poker players, ingested primarily in the form of energy drinks. The amount of caffeine present in 2-3 cans of energy drinks (equivalent to about 5 cups of coffee consumed per hour) is sufficient for a poker player to fail an WADA/IOC-administered drug test if that drug test were administered to tournament poker players.
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I'm not sure what those ratios mean, but you have to drink about 20 cups of coffee the morning of an event in order to test positive. If you chugged a red bull on the starting line of the Olympic 100 meters you'd be fine.
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1. Sleeping pills, as a "downer" for players after a long day at the tournament table
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Sleeping pills like ambien are not IOC/WADA banned substances.
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