Is anyone out here good at chess/poker?

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14 Jun 2011, 4:48 pm

I used to play a lot of online poker. I worked for an online sportsbook/ casino/ poker operator and my life revolved around gambling. I would not recommend gambling to anyone. A lot of people where I worked had serious debt problems.

My grandfather taught me to play chess, but I did not have the discipline to learn to play well. Random chess sounds more fun.



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14 Jun 2011, 5:17 pm

I won a kids chess competition when I was a kid



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14 Jun 2011, 5:45 pm

I was ok at chess but I always found it boring. As far as poker, I am very good at poker because I don't rely on tells at all(unless someone is being thunderingly obvious about their hand.) I have always viewed poker as a mathematical game. I can usually determine what the best move is mathematically and because I'm right more often than I'm wrong, I'm a profitable player over the long term.



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15 Jun 2011, 2:15 am

I used to be a very good Chess player, but haven't played it for some time, now...
I am okay at 21 (Poker), but don't play it much, either.


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15 Jun 2011, 3:12 am

i'm pretty proficient with texas hold'em (poker) becouse the ffact that my face doesn't show my real emotions, i got a powerful poker face; getting skilled in showing the emotion you think you are supposed to can be used too to throw your 'opponent' in the wrong direction.

as for chess; i'm decent, but only becouse i play at random, confusing better players, and becouse i can keep an overvieuw of the entire board at once.



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15 Jun 2011, 3:47 am

In my youth chess was my favourite passtime....



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15 Jun 2011, 4:43 am

I used to love poker online.


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15 Jun 2011, 1:48 pm

I love poker and am pretty good at it.



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15 Jun 2011, 3:14 pm

never really been a that good at chess, but I'm ok at poker.


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15 Jun 2011, 8:35 pm

I played 3 dimensional chess a few times