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On January 22 2009 20:48 Sicks Macks wrote: It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge...

chess?

what the fuck is scrabble?

On August 26 2009 19:47 Baal wrote: Show nested quote + On January 22 2009 20:48 Sicks Macks wrote: It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge... chess?

Dan Harrington is chess master and even wrote a book (after that he was crushing backgammon and (guess what) wrote a book - eventually he crossed over to poker (and wrote books ldo)). But he's the only one I can think of (chess).

On August 26 2009 19:47 Baal wrote: Show nested quote + On January 22 2009 20:48 Sicks Macks wrote: It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge... chess?

i always had the impression that out of those, chess had the largest number of crossover players to poker...could be wrong though.

Well it makes absolute sense, i think we dont see many and the few we see are old farts who suck at poker for nowadays standards like the formentioned Dan Harrington because Chess is not a game that famous for young people and young people are just destroying poker because old people with careers dont have the time and learning abilities young ones do.

theres this crazy cash game player that plays at wynn a lot named Drasko who is the FUKIN MAN but is a sick sick sick chess player

he will be the one to lead the chessers

On August 26 2009 20:05 Baal wrote: Well it makes absolute sense, i think we dont see many and the few we see are old farts who suck at poker for nowadays standards like the formentioned Dan Harrington because Chess is not a game that famous for young people and young people are just destroying poker because old people with careers dont have the time and learning abilities young ones do.

I seem to recall some 2+2 wells that mentioned competitive chess as a starting point. Can't remember who though.

On August 26 2009 22:09 FrinkX wrote: theres this crazy cash game player that plays at wynn a lot named Drasko who is the FUKIN MAN but is a sick sick sick chess player he will be the one to lead the chessers

HAHAHA fucking drasko life

that guy is sw33t

deldar is a sicko.

lol baal just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist. there's probably lots of people who know elky, rekrul etc. as poker players who don't know about their starcraft background. i don't even care about chess really but you're seriously underestimating its popularity.

On August 27 2009 03:22 bigredhoss wrote: lol baal just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist. there's probably lots of people who know elky, rekrul etc. as poker players who don't know about their starcraft background. i don't even care about chess really but you're seriously underestimating its popularity.

lol when did i say they didnt exist at all? it makes a lot of sense to switch from chess to poker, and its the most famous listed game however it seems its not so common as it "should" be.

On August 27 2009 04:31 Baal wrote: Show nested quote + On August 27 2009 03:22 bigredhoss wrote: lol baal just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist. there's probably lots of people who know elky, rekrul etc. as poker players who don't know about their starcraft background. i don't even care about chess really but you're seriously underestimating its popularity. lol when did i say they didnt exist at all? it makes a lot of sense to switch from chess to poker, and its the most famous listed game however it seems its not so common as it "should" be.

Chess

Also Ylon Schwartz...though I dunno if he's any good...

oh baal you silly goose, my point was that it doesn't seem like there's as many as there should be to you because you're not part of the chess "community", just like someone who's not part of the starcraft community may not be aware of the starcraft players turned poker players.

TRIPLE WORD SCORE

On August 26 2009 19:51 longple wrote: what the fuck is scrabble?

scrabble = Alfapet

deldar owns my soul

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eldar

New Scrabble world champion owes it all to 'carrels': Word meaning a cubicle desk helps Australian player to take the title

That's kind of cool :0

deldar hsdb so solid.