Poker Forum

Every year throughout the World Series of Poker, at least one Starbucks coffee cup is sitting on each of the hundreds of tables filling out the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino. Members of the poker media strategically avoid their coffee runs during tournament breaks to avoid suffering in the Starbucks line that stretches out the door. Then there’s the Poker Kitchen with its seemingly never-ending supply of energy drinks that are consumed by the hundreds every day.

Countless articles exist convincing us why we should, and why we should not, have caffeine in our diets. Whether it’s Red...