Re: Ability to Predict a Players Skill based on Intelligence.
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...a list of skills needed to play poker? I will just throw something out there to build on.
1: Self Control - Emotional Indifference
2. Basic Math - Understand simple probabilities
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Here's a few random thoughts:
Memory. This is twofold; remembering how particular players play in different situations; remembering individual hands. I'm reasonably good at both of these, whereas I often find players can't recall hands they played against me.
Sadism. You mentioned emotional indifference, but I think it may be slightly more subtle than that. I'd say many good players have a slightly sadistic edge. Let's face it, playing winning poker is not a very nice way to go on, is it. Or perhaps it's a substitute whereby one's sadistic instincts can be expressed in a vaguely socially approved or subliminal fashion.
The logic which leads to making good deductive reads. Not only the ones that go, 'he must have the A of diamonds, King of hearts,' but also where you eliminate hands, so, 'he can't have top pair'. I'm fairly sure this improves considerably with experience.
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