Is a high IQ necessary to be a poker pro

[mackthefork]

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tell that to employers please, Im around 160-165 and I cant even get an internship. IQ means less than most people think

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Employers hate people who are smarter than they are, pretend to be dumb, and act amiably, also show naive enthusiasm, it always works in the movies. And if not there is always the back-up plan that they will think you are retarded and employ you out of sympathy. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Mack

[MicroBob]

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things poker players have in common:
a) when posting, everyone has a ROI of about 30%.
b) when posting, everyone has an IQ of 177 or more
c) when playing, it's everyones's "first time"

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d) they need to bathe more

[IronUnkind]

Neither Reese nor Ivey were in his top ten IIRC.

[MicroBob]

Okay. I was going off memory as best I could.


I could have sworn that Reese was though.
However, as mentioned before, I'm too lazy to go back and look it up.

[unfrgvn]

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However, as mentioned before, I'm too lazy to go back and look it up.

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My IQ is only 117, so I'm not to lazy to look it up. Unfortunately I'm too stupid to figure out the search facility. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[flo]

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The thing is, most people who say what their IQ is got it from some online tests, which I've noticed cause people to test higher than they really should be.

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I never saw anyone with a result lower than 130 in online tests.

[MicroBob]

here it is. not so lazy after my coffee

another poker/IQ discussion David takes part in



edited to fix the 2nd link

[unfrgvn]

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here it is. not so lazy after my coffee


another poker-iq discussion David takes part in


edited to fix the 2nd link

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Crap, I just found it for myself!
Here's one of David's 10 smartest non poker players:
10 smartest non poker player per DS

[MicroBob]

that's a nice addition.

Forgot about that one.


I think it's okay to bump these every once in awhile because this is the kind of topic that comes up around occasionally. And obviously a lot of people missed these classics the first time around.

[Burno]

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.People with 160 IQs build space shuttles, skyscrapers, stealth bombers and submarines, I think thats a tad more complicated than poker.

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This is idiotic, for reasons I think even you can understand.