Does anyone here play/excel in other games besides poker??

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I was just wondering if any skills from those games transferred over. I don't know much about chess. I used to play Scrabble a lot and had memorized how many of each letter there was and would subtract those already on the board/in my rack. Other than that, I can't think of any other skills that would transfer over.
 
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I was just wondering if any skills from those games transferred over. I don't know much about chess. I used to play Scrabble a lot and had memorized how many of each letter there was and would subtract those already on the board/in my rack. Other than that, I can't think of any other skills that would transfer over.
I used to be a reasonable chess player, played for my school team a couple of times, but I no longer enjoy chess, poker has replaced it for me.
 
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The only game I've tried so far is poker, who knows, maybe at some point I'll be interested in another one.
 
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i play chess, and yes you can use strategy in chess as in poker.
 
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As for card games, I've been playing only poker in recent years. Although I know other card games. But poker is the only type of game that really interests me. I don't play any other games, computer or board games.
 
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I was a chess champion in my province on several occasions. The patience and focus on each move carried over to poker, which makes me believe that I started playing poker with some skill.
Nowadays I continue to play chess but I no longer play it competitively.
 
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I was just wondering if any skills from those games transferred over. I don't know much about chess. I used to play Scrabble a lot and had memorized how many of each letter there was and would subtract those already on the board/in my rack. Other than that, I can't think of any other skills that would transfer over.
I play table tennis quite well. I've been playing for over 15 years and I play at a pretty good level. I don't consider myself a professional but I'm definitely competitive :)
 
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As a kid, I played chess, and was quite good at it...stopped playing for 20 years until I taught my son to play. There are some top poker pros who were chess prodigies, so I imagine the skills do translate to poker.
 
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I'm good at football, I play very well as well as poker
 
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Chess is pretty fun but it gets boring
 
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About 1,000 years ago I was a scholarship tennis player.
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I'm rated 822 in Chess and have recent wins over some 1200s.
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I won some local chess tournaments as a kid. But stopped playing when I was 15-16.

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Poker is 99% game of luck. It is nothing like chess!!! :cool:
 
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I like a lot of card games, here where I live there is a famous “trick” game I quite like to play it, I don't stand out, but I would say it's my second favorite game hahaha
 
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