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What are your favorites of the following?
1) Drink (non alcohol OK)
2) Color
3) Hobby

Do you still play chess? In your opinion, what is most similar about chess and poker? What is the most different?

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

What are your favorites of the following?
1) Drink (non alcohol OK)
2) Color
3) Hobby

Do you still play chess? In your opinion, what is most similar about chess and poker? What is the most different?

1. I drink the hell out of grape Propel and cherry Juicy Juice (100% juice). On a related note, I haven't had alcohol in about 10 and a half years. I have a very hard time stopping once I start, and the vast majority of my run-ins with cops have been because of this.

2. My favorite colors are grape purple and sour apple green. Actually they're not, but girls ask that question a lot, and those are fun answers when you give them with a strong frame. Chicks frequently bring up remembering me tell them that years after the fact. My actual favorite color is black which is much more boring as a concept but much more appealing in concrete application like lingerie, car color, etc.

3. Building furniture is my favorite hobby. If I could live in the middle of nowhere near a lumber yard and just work in the mornings and spend the rest of my day building shit to sell at a flea market on the weekend for the rest of my life, I would be happy.

I don't play chess in any serious fashion, but I do play regularly online kind of dicking around playing fast games. Chess and poker are very similar in that you put a ton of time, effort, money and work into it to get anywhere, but you don't really get anything back out of chess in terms of money unless you end up landing a job as a teacher by some fluke or make it to the top like 0.000001% of players aka like top 50 in the world and can get sponsors.

In terms of the nature of the games themselves, stylistic play is a much bigger deal in poker than it is in chess. While chess players definitely have specific styles to some degree once they have developed enough as a player, it's not nearly as helpful to know what type of player you're facing as it is in poker. In poker, knowing how your opponent plays is a really major issue for obvious reasons, but in chess it's not all that important because style isn't directly tied to the strength of the player.

I feel like a good example is MMA. There are people who tend towards different styles, but that's independent of their overall skill level.

Thanks for the questions.