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Greatest minds of all time? He'es definitely up there, but what about Newton, Socrates, Archimedes, DaVinci, Van Gogh, Shakespeare. All great minds, but they'd all suck at Poker. I'll take Richard Millhouse Nixon over any great mind any day in a poker game.

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here is why its Sklansky too, and I will use anecdotal evidence to support it. Michael Jordan was/is a phenomenal athlete, but he tried to play pro baseball. He was basically taught the basics, and maybe even a little bit more than the basics, but he couldn't even come close to hanging with people that had been playing for years. Its the same way in poker. As Bernie would say, you get out what you put in, and no one could possibly be a winning player right of the bat, no matter how smart they are.

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I like the analogy.

But don't you think that Einstein would grasp almost immediately the nature of the game and all the probabilities? Plus he would most likely understand the fundamentals of game theory right off the bat, too, which is important for HU play.

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Well, I said "one" of the greatest minds of all time, and I don't think that can be argued.

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I am sure he would pick all that up quickly, but in one session, very doubtful. Plus there is no telling how a bad beat would affect him. I think if someone as smart as him(or for that matter any of the "great" minds throughout time) spent several hundred hours studying poker, they would kill everyone at it. There are some things waaay to complex for me to truely grasp about gambling and for that matter poker. They would also be very analytical and decisive. But to be honest with you, who says Sklansky isn't all of those things already?

Re: Einstein versus......
 

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Greatest minds of all time? He'es definitely up there, but what about Newton, Socrates, Archimedes, DaVinci, Van Gogh, Shakespeare. All great minds, but they'd all suck at Poker. I'll take Richard Millhouse Nixon over any great mind any day in a poker game.

[/ QUOTE ]All of these clowns were Free Masons and in the Illuminati [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img], supposedly. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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All of these clowns were Free Masons and in the Illuminati [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img], supposedly. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Were? They discovered the secret of immortality centuries ago and they're still alive and still rule the world from behind the curtain.

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I am sure he would pick all that up quickly, but in one session, very doubtful.

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Ah... but this would be an incredibly long session, even if it was capped on every street on every hand.

Let's raise the stacks from 10,000 chips to 500,000.

With a bet limit of 10, that'd take like a year.

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Well, I said "one" of the greatest minds of all time, and I don't think that can be argued.

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Yeah, i think my post started off arguing whether Einstein was one of the greatest mind of all time, but then I stopped myself before saying something dumb. I don't blame you for the confusion.

Any way, if you want a real GreatesMindEver/Poker Player, I'll take Renes desCartes

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With a bet limit of 10, that'd take like a year.

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So, is your question really - Could Einstein learn to play poker (given enough time) as some great players? If so, probably.

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There's an Einstein exhibit, here in L.A. at one of our museums; I'm going to attend next week. I'll see if there's any information there to help answer the question. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I've heard that Einstein ended up at Princeton because Cal-Tech refused to pay him the $10,000/year he wanted as his salary. After all, who did he think he was, Einstein? [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]