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Poker is probably more advantageous to learn if you can get good at it; more money, more prestige and a focus on reading/bluffing others.

by philk 17y ago

yan 17y ago
Since when does Poker carry more prestige than Chess?
- starkfist 17y ago
  Since about 1996, when you could make a million dollars by winning the world series of poker.
  - yan 17y ago
    I guess we're not defining 'prestige' similarly. In my eyes, lots of money does not automatically garner prestige.
    - starkfist 17y ago
      I agree with you but I think the "prestige" of chess is largely confined to Russia and a few eastern european countries, and people originally from those areas. Most other cultures don't have the same history with the game.
      - yan 17y ago
        Hah, guilty. :P
- hugh3 17y ago
  Depends on whom you're trying to impress. MIT admissions? Be a chess champion. Girls in bars? Poker champion.
- moserware 17y ago
  Garry Kasparov made a comment recently that in the era of 3000+ ELO chess computers, poker seems like a good match for humans still beating computer for now given that both sides don't have complete information. This could explain why top chess players (and chess programmers like Rybka's Vasik Rajlich) are becoming more interested in poker. Details at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/?page=2 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che... Personally, I still prefer chess.
- philk 17y ago
  Chess has lost a lot of its prestige since the end of the Cold War. Poker, on the other hand, has grown in prestige since tournaments have offered much more lucrative payouts [1], been televised more widely and had lots of amateurs enter the field. [1] Even if "more money" doesn't give an event more prestige in your eyes there's a large number of people out there who are impressed by money.

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Poker is probably more advantageous to learn if you can get good at it; more money, more prestige and a focus on reading/bluffing others.

by philk 17y ago

Poker is probably more advantageous to learn if you can get good at it; more money, more prestige and a focus on reading/bluffing others.

yan 17y ago
Since when does Poker carry more prestige than Chess?
- starkfist 17y ago
  Since about 1996, when you could make a million dollars by winning the world series of poker.
  - yan 17y ago
    I guess we're not defining 'prestige' similarly. In my eyes, lots of money does not automatically garner prestige.
    - starkfist 17y ago
      I agree with you but I think the "prestige" of chess is largely confined to Russia and a few eastern european countries, and people originally from those areas. Most other cultures don't have the same history with the game.
      - yan 17y ago
        Hah, guilty. :P
- hugh3 17y ago
  Depends on whom you're trying to impress. MIT admissions? Be a chess champion. Girls in bars? Poker champion.
- moserware 17y ago
  Garry Kasparov made a comment recently that in the era of 3000+ ELO chess computers, poker seems like a good match for humans still beating computer for now given that both sides don't have complete information. This could explain why top chess players (and chess programmers like Rybka's Vasik Rajlich) are becoming more interested in poker. Details at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/?page=2 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che... Personally, I still prefer chess.
- philk 17y ago
  Chess has lost a lot of its prestige since the end of the Cold War. Poker, on the other hand, has grown in prestige since tournaments have offered much more lucrative payouts [1], been televised more widely and had lots of amateurs enter the field. [1] Even if "more money" doesn't give an event more prestige in your eyes there's a large number of people out there who are impressed by money.