Introductions and a question

IronDoc

Hi gang! I'm glad I found this site. I used to play poker a lot as a 12/13 year-old for NHL Power Players (gives my age away) and am now just returning to the game.

I spent a many of the intervening years over the chess board. I know Harrington was a good chess player (unsure of his rating but have read that he had attained a master rating) and became one of the best poker players for sure.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how your "chess brain" transfers to poker skills? Clearly in chess you need to be able to memorize endless opening variations...and in poker there is an element of memory work also...would appreciate a discussion on this.

Thanks,

IronDoc

literation

Really just starting out here but I made some reference to this at...

http://pokerforum.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=1915&page=2&pp=10

Alpha Wolf

I don't know about chess, but I am positive the years of playing backgammon helped my to become a successful full time poker player. I am sure chess skills would help the same way.

IronDoc

I was watching the WPT on CITY here in TO yesterday and the final table had 3 backgammon players.

cardsrusa

Hello all

Thought I would stop be and post a quick hello and introduce myself to the form. I am the new poker room manager at the GBH. Lee's new sidekick. Talk to everyone soon.

RAM_Eh

Welcome to the fourm.

You went way back to 04 to get this post.

I have a question about December TOC. Has the blind structure been set yet?

With such a high buy in, I would hope it would be similar to the Canadian Poker Open. 10K in chips, 1 hour blinds?

I know it is a rebuy, 1K gets you 3000 chips, $500, gets you 1500......

Rob.

Unknown

Hi everyone, can't wait to check out all the posts and talk about poker.

Bobsi38127

The link on here that literation posted didn't work for me, in a nutshell they are both analytical, strategic games. Both games are about you vs. another person, knowing are they timid or are they aggressive? Are they an Amateur or are they experienced? These tidbits of information basically determine an effective strategy of how to think ahead and to be the one with all the chips, or else how to minimize short term losses and to maximize the long term win.
In Chess: Losing a Pawn to take their Queen w/your knight
In Poker: Flopping the nut Boat in EP w/a 2 heart board against a player with a poor concept of board reading and checking it for them to hit their 3rd needed heart. They take the lead on the turn when they hit, or else if they miss, keep it cheap and hope they draw, at any point they hit they'd most likely bet a lot or else all of it
In terms of memorization of starting hands its good to know how valuable hands are theoretically, but its more than just an arbitrary formula. Knowing what your opponent values when he raises, and knowing what he values when he calls basically sets your hand criteria. If your opponent overvalues low PPs like 2-7 don't be afraid to play more paint, if you know hes a slowplayer be wary of checks. Poker has luck, and you a lot of the time play more than 1 person, but really are both tough games to master.

ny_giantss

lr444 wrote: »

Hi everyone, can't wait to check out all the posts and talk about poker.

nor can I. i love this game. go TONY G