I don't follow professional poker. Are PEDs a thing?

My friends and I are considering starting a new hi limit poker tournament circuit in the US. Millions in payouts per tournament (think Triton++) but some conditions:

1. There will be drug tests. You can’t be on any drugs including any performance enhancing drugs like Ritalin or…

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I don't follow professional poker. Are PEDs a thing?

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Some players will utilize an ADHD medicine to heighten their brain power.  Even if these players have prescriptions, other players protest.

Gambling is gambling.  These people are crying foul now cause poker passed them by and they didnt keep up with the solvers etc. They think the solution is to drug test.  They should just retire in the sunset and walk away because they can't accept that they can't keep up with people who actually study and learn.

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as someone who has taken adhd meds in the past I guarantee it would have made me sooo much worse at poker (of course I am already not that good so whatever but honestly we need more things to complain about) 

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Right. No. If I had internalized more of the strategy I'm sure it would be helpful. I'm just tired of always demonizing the wrong damn things. All the time. It's exhausting.

As someone who has a legal script for addy i can tell you, it absolutely helps me LMAO but the point is, this isnt poker's mainstream problem.