Well steroids has invaded just about every sport under the sun and now that poker has become a feature has steroids' evil era of cheating tarnished the professional world of poker too? This is a funny question but it is not at all ridiculous. The first analytical discussion and an obvious question you might ask yourselves is whether steroids or human growth hormone could somehow furnish professional poker players and edge the way they do baseball's fastball pitchers and cater hitters. Could they actually merit being taken by poker players looking for a dishonest edge? This argument can be broken down into two parts: physical and mental. Physically it's rather obvious that the muscle-bound effects of either steroids or human growth hormone will do absolutely nothing to help poker players win at the tables. But when speaking of "physically," I'm talking about turn size and power not stamina or the ability to stave off sleep and headaches. Which brings us toward the other more integral argument about steroids in poker: the mental side. It turns out that the conclusion there is rather straightforward as well. Anabolic steroids are not going to do anything much to give a cheating poker player and edge in the games--unless of course he plans on strong-arming his money back from a fellow player who beat him out of a big pot. But as much as we might not desire to admit this there are certain "poker steroids" out there. I am not talking about steroids in the anabolic sense; I'm talking about other kinds of performance enhancement drugs. There are several but the one at the forefront is called provigil (generic name Modafinil). Provigil is a drug that keeps you awake. It has legitimate medical uses and has also been used by the military to increase the performance of its pilots and soldiers in contend situations. Provigil enhances short-term memory and lets users be awake for extended periods. In bunco it keep you awake alert and sharp three necessities in the world of winning poker. What is poker about and what does provigil have to do with it? Maybe nothing maybe something maybe soon to be something more although I hope not. Poker itself is about gaining and exploiting edges against your opponents. Usually study observation analysis and experience which are all naturally occurring processes that everyone has the capacity to practice coupled with the ability to mentally sustain our applied knowledge in these areas are what achieves these advantages and thus even though some.
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