Furgeson says have to be very intelligent! Is he right?

[Smoothcall]

I was watching the monte carlo millions episode and Chris furgeson said something to the effect of you have to be very intelligent to be atop the poker world. Is he right?

I disagree with this. There are many players that are atop the poker world who are not very intelligent. And many players that are very intelligent that are not atop the poker world. I believe it is more about instinctive play and fearlessness to act or there instincts that make players at the top of the poker world.

Players such as Layne Flack, Scotty Ngyuen, PHIL IVEY, Mike mattusow(not sure at top but a threat), Jonny Chan, Hoyt Corkins, and many others are people that wouldn't be considered very intelliigent people. At least in the sense that furgeson uses. As he went on to give his degrees and such. I'm not in any way knocking these guys. But to show that they are players that might not necessarily be very intelligent people that dominate the tournament poker world. Which makes me think its more about having an inate talent for having very good instincts and having the ability (or fearlessness) to act on these instincts. I guess in a way i may be arguing the old "how important is math" issue as well. Where these are non math guys atop the tournament poker world.

So what do you guys think?