Re: Intelligence and How it Rates (Comment on Ten Smartest)
I think nerve is underestimated. An intelligent person can know odds, probability, and strategy backwards and forwards, but especially at NL, if you are too timid to pull the trigger, the knowledge does you little good.
With any kind of stake that matters (and that might be pennies, or it might be thousands), it is hard to go all-in, or call a big raise, even if you conceptually know those plays are correct. The top players can do it with ease.
Frank
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