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Old 10-29-2004, 10:42 PM
KanigawaCards7 KanigawaCards7 is offline
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Default What games have money in them?

to my knowledge these are games that have a reasonable professional circuit/tournaments:
Poker- a lot
Chess- alot
Gin Rummy- comparitively little
MTG- comparitively little

what other games have money in them?And what kind of money are we talking
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Old 10-30-2004, 01:14 PM
Neil Stevens Neil Stevens is offline
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Default Re: What games have money in them?

There's money in professional go/baduk/weiqi, though it's hard for me to judge how much because it's all in South Korean Won and Japanese Yen.
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Old 10-30-2004, 01:23 PM
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Default Re: What games have money in them?

Mah-jongg is also frequently played for money (high stakes, too).
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Old 10-30-2004, 01:50 PM
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Default Re: What games have money in them?

backgammon which along with MTG is turning out some great poker players.
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Old 10-30-2004, 02:34 PM
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You can get together with Gus Hansen and play some high stakes Yahtzee!
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Old 10-30-2004, 03:03 PM
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Chess is not a field to enter for money.. trust me. Impossible to make money unless you're in top 1% of the playing field, in which case you still probably cannot make a living. To make a living at chess you have to be probably more around top .01% of all chessplayers.

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Old 10-30-2004, 06:36 PM
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Default Re: What games have money in them?

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Chess is not a field to enter for money.. trust me. Impossible to make money unless you're in top 1% of the playing field, in which case you still probably cannot make a living. To make a living at chess you have to be probably more around top .01% of all chessplayers.

-Jared

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Being a chessplayer, I would say much less. I am somewhere around 8th for my age group, and I doubt I would be able to make any decent living. It will probably pay for my college, but beyond that no. Only the very top few in the world get money, and those are people who study for 6 hours a day since they are a teenager.
For the GMS (very top, maybe top .01%) most of them struggle to make a living.
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Old 10-30-2004, 06:55 PM
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Default Re: What games have money in them?

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to my knowledge these are games that have a reasonable professional circuit/tournaments:
Poker- a lot
Chess- alot
Gin Rummy- comparitively little
MTG- comparitively little

what other games have money in them?And what kind of money are we talking

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Chess? I guess so, if by "a lot," you mean that there are at least ten people in the world making a living solely by playing in tournaments.
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