doping in poker

[TruePoker CEO]

you die..... a definite -EV.

[silkyjonson]

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NO because it doesn't matter. No poker player has an advantage while on drugs. Anyone else at the table can take them, who's stopping them. I take adderall all the time and can say it only helps for long sessions but its hard to be on adderrall and staying in one place for 10 hours.

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The paragraph above is a good example why not to use amphetamines.

[kindergartencop]

my winrate doubled since i started juicing. steroids give me the strength and confidence to put in all my chips. i just feel so [censored] powerful at the table now i know i cant be stopped. i think soon steroids will be more prevalent in poker than in baseball tbh.

[brandofo]

I always play on LSD just to be safe.

[degeneratum]

well i wrote a long response to this but when i though i had submitted it, i was only previewing.
As someone who has used adderal for the last 6 years i can definitely attest to it not being viable longterm. It's extremely addictive and is responsible for my 30 hour marathons followed by 4 day vacations at least 2x a month. I dont know if OP was serious or not, but testing for speed in poker is lunacy. one, its an invasion of privacy, and two, the game is voluntarily played. Come try to impose that rule on anyone with even a half a ball. having said that, my friend who basically mentored me during sophomore year when i was just learning happened to write for the school paper. after 6 mos. i was beating him in our HU SNGs like 70% of the time. I picked up the paper one day on my way to class, to find an article by him suggesting that adderall was a performance enhancing drug and should be banned from poker.

Cliff notes: while adderall/ritalin may be useful in sustaining short term awareness and probably increases your brains raw processing power threefold, it IS too good to be true. amphetamines damage the ability to learn new tasks and I curse the day I started taking them. But I do owe them credit for poker being my sole income stream for the last 3 yrs.

[kerr]

OP should be dope tested

[shmergle]

No, certain posters should be dopiness tested.

[augie_]

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its hard to be on adderrall and staying in one place for 10 hours.

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someone's never taken adderall! obviously this question is dumb, it's just a fricken game of cards. but i am 100% confident a player on adderall has a significant advantage.

[ReptileHouse]

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Have you ever seen a man drink his own urine?

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This post needs more love.

[Anamul]

When asked, a while back, why He did so well in the 2001 (I think) WSOP ME - Mikey said He was on Speed for the whole Tournament!