If you play poker long enough you're bound to hear the stories about casinos pumping oxygen into the air to keep you awake. This is all crap — a rumor started when a Vegas casino carried through an experiment during the 80's. I'm not absolving them of all their sins. They are still guilty of turning the A.C. down quite low; the human body stays more alert at colder temperatures. Yet, 62 degrees Fahrenheit is still not the core cause for why your eyelids rarely drift shut while sitting at the felt.
The real reason why you can't sleep in a casino, the reason you can stay awake forever, is that your brain is never allowed a moment to rest. Look here! No, no! Look here!!! Flash! Flash! Cherry, Cherry, BAR!! NO! Damn!! What now?!? Flash! LOOOOOK!!! What's this? What on earth is that?!? To be a successful poker player, one has to block all of this out. Put it out of your mind or the distractions will take over and soon enough you'll find yourself just another railbird making up some bullshit story to your friends about how your quad aces ran into a Royal Flush. Don't let in the lights and sounds. Like the word problems from your sixth grade math class, work out what the unimportant, unnecessary information is and discard it. In time you will see the numbers necessary to solve the problem.
-strongmonty
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they do that in stores though, keep it cold so you want to buy clothing, play music and spray perfume that make you subconsciously spend more money, and don't they play music on slot machines that never resolves until someone wins?
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