Rusty, I think it's time to use your mod powers.
idk what there is to argue. Unless someone does a chess propbet against a high stakes player, bet some x million he can't get x rank at chess, what's the point?
Also lol @
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Now have fun trying to prove that Hellmuth, Tony G and the like have and IQ above 110.
Did anyone say that they are the smart poker players discussed?
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So it's absolutely not a given that a GM would be able to remember poker hands as well as he remembers chess positions, because the types of patterns present in poker hands are different from the types of patterns present in chess positions.
fwiw, the similariy between poker and chess is the use of logical reasoning, and the way a poker player remembers hands will be fairly similar to the way a chess player remember moves, through the reasoning and plays of the opponent and his own response, so I imagine there is a fair amount of relevance between remembering poker hands and chess games.
I mean, as a stud player, I have terrible static memory, but I can still remember most relevant folded door cards by aligning it with the 3rd street action and such, whilst multi-tabling. Rusty would probably be a better authority on this though, maybe it IS remembering every single folded card, but I generally remembering it street by street, decision by decision and replay the entire thing quickly to find out what's folded if I needed to.
Last edited by Nostalgica; 03-10-2010 at 02:15 AM.