Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Age: 47 Gender: Male Posts: 569
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.
Joined: 1 Jun 2011 Age: 42 Gender: Male Posts: 1,279 Location: Las Vegas
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.
Joined: 4 Apr 2011 Age: 37 Gender: Male Posts: 2,665
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.
Joined: 18 Feb 2011 Age: 37 Gender: Male Posts: 546 Location: Under your bed.
15 Jun 2011, 3:14 pm
never really been a that good at chess, but I'm ok at poker.
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