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Message: [QUOTE="This Fish Chums, post: 5080085, member: 359399"] Comparing poker to chess and saying that because chess is an intellectual game and poker involves chance that poker is not as intellectual as chess is a mistake. Just because part of poker involves luck does not mean all of poker is luck-based. I would argue that poker pros have to develop more skills than a chess master has to develop. Not only that, but the fact that the poker pro has to find some way of accounting for and winning in spite of bad luck makes could be considered a mental skill on its own. Now, I wouldn't say poker players are smarter than chess players, or that either of them are smarter than the typical highly intelligent person who plays neither (perhaps not wasting time playing either is a sign of higher intelligence itself), but to claim poker is not a game of intelligence would be a tad naive. Even my complete fish style of playing requires some level of intellect. I hope? :dontknow: [/QUOTE]