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Message: [QUOTE="WiredKs, post: 5032197, member: 380787"] If chess and poker were personified it would look a lot like Einstein and Freddy Mercury. Although the veneer has some similarities, in its greatest form chess is absolute order and poker is absolute chaos. There's no way to analytically rate one better than the other because they are such disparate disciplines. All of the GTO stuff going on is an effort to push poker down an intellectual hole it doesn't fit that well in. No one has ever responded to a Sicilian defense with "I don't think he has it this time" and no one has ever blitzed a bishop think their opponent would "lay down" his king. If you'll allow a couple more mixed metaphors (because I think I'm being clever), there have been occasions where a player has sacrificed a rook in order to set up a "squeeze play" on a "later street". ::groans from the gallery:: [/QUOTE]