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Originally Posted by Dr. Meh
Poker is exciting and your body is having a normal physiological response. The concern I have is that you are unable to come down from that response. How long do you stay in that heightened state?
Oh not for long. When I'm in a big pot is the only time, when the hand is over it takes about 5 seconds to come back down to normal. The weird stuff tends to happen after the session that makes me think my body is having a strong adverse chemical reaction (even during upswings) and lasts about a day or two.
While this is probably normal to some extent, there are people out there who have this figured out. I remember in these old poker shows they had a heart rate monitor on the players and some guys had no change at all even during a big hand.
I hate that feeling I get though, because it's excitement but feels sorta dirty or negative at the time and afterwards.