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Educated people are always a little condescending about their education. If you like poker, just study hard and play hard. Don't worry about ur god given intelligence, you cannot change it.

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True, but if you don't have it, poker's going to cost you a lot of money. I expect smoothcall would actually score highly on IQ tests if he's been successful as suggested here. He just hasn't been trained in the mechanics of the written word and has trouble expressing himself as a result.

In his original post, I think smoothcall misconstrued two statements Ferguson made as relating to one another because they came from the same source. He's gotten a lot of flack for it, but that's because he's continually fought back (fuel on the fire...).

Smooth, just in case it hasn't been made obvious, I think Ferguson was listing his degrees to show the ways he's developed his intelligence, not to suggest he's intelligent in the first place.

Gary