Former US Chess Champ Jen Shahade plays Chess and Poker Multi-Table Video!
Hello chess blog friends, The UKIPT is holding the first official Chess and Poker combination tournament at this stop. In honor of this event Chess Master Jen Shahade took on three heads-up poker matches and three chess matches at the same time! To find out how many she won, you will have to watch.
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How chess helped Staszko in his poker!
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Hello everyone,
We've just got another update on chess player-turned-poker player Martin Staszko. It has just been announced that this year’s WSOP Main Event runner-up Martin Staszko, has just been signed on as the newest recruit to Team PokerStars Pro. The 35-year-old Czech pro earned $5,433,086 for his WSOP runner-up finish, plus a whole lot of kudos culminating in his now representing the world’s biggest online poker room.
Around 5 years ago the talented chess player decided to turn his attention towards playing poker and, as he explains:
“Playing chess taught me how to endure long sessions by the table. Chess also required much more preparation, which is not needed for poker. So compared to chess, poker playing is a piece of cake with much higher earnings.”
Here is our previous post on the champion.
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Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura plays poker too!
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We have grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura playing poker too! Check the photos at this link.
 Here are the grandmaster's tweets on his poker game.
- July 13: Got it all in with KK vs 88 preflop. Flop 8... sigh. Oh well. Back to chess.
- July 13: So card dead but fighting incredibly hard to stay alive. At 31K going into the dinner break.
- July 13: Not a very good first 2 hours. Got a straight cracked by a river flush. Down to 40K.
- July 13: Uh oh, the dealer at my table recognized me! July 13: Here we go! Day 2 of the Main Event at the Rio!
- July 11: I'm still alive in the WSOP Main Even, Hardly missing out.
You can read more poker-related tweets at the grandmaster's twitter page.Also see her personal blog at Labels: chess and poker, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura
Why chess players good at poker?
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hello everyone,
Chess Champ Tsinis Wins WSOP $1,500 NL Event
Ukrainian poker pro Arkadiy Tsinis has just won WSOP Event 38: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em, after overcoming a field of 2,192 players over three days to capture his first gold bracelet, as well as collecting the $540,000 first place prize. Here is the full article.
Meanwhile, PokerListings have just carried a very interesting article By: Matthew Showell titled 'Why Are Chess Players Winning at the WSOP?'
Indeed. It is an interesting trend. Do read the article.
Niner Ylon Schwartz
Competitive chess player Arkadiy Tsinis’s victory at the WSOP on June 25 only reiterated a trend we’ve seen develop over the last few years: Chess players make good poker players.
With the list of successful chess-to-poker transitions growing so is our understanding of not only why chess players have a leg up at the poker table, but why more and more of them are making the switch.
Ylon Schwartz spent thousands of hours studying chess long before he took poker seriously, but it was poker that awarded him $3.89 million at the 2008 WSOP Main Event.
Best friends with Arkady Tsinis, who won his first bracelet this afternoon, Schwartz proved the perfect person to shed light on the kind of opportunity poker presents to the skilled chess player.
A few main differences are key, the biggest of which being the amount of money up for grabs.
“There’s not a great living in chess unless you’re in like the top 20 in the world,” Schwartz told PokerListings.com beside the final table as his friend Tsinis conducted his winner interview with ESPN.
“In poker you can get lucky in one tournament and you’re a millionaire,” he added.
With online poker still available to most of the world, and live tournaments of all stakes becoming increasingly accessible, poker absolutely dwarfs chess in terms of the money changing hands on a daily basis.
The second and perhaps equally important factor is the head-start that a background in chess affords players at the poker table.
“The transition from chess to poker is pretty simple since chess is infinitely more difficult,” Schwartz said.
“You’re trained to sit and you’re trained to study and you’re trained to memorize things which are all applicable to poker,” he said.
While chess is certainly a noble pursuit, for many it simply doesn’t put food on the table.
“It’s cute to be a chess player and be broke when you’re in your 20s but when you hit 30 you’ve got to switch,” said Schwartz.
“As more chess players get sad and depressed they’ll have no choice but to switch over to poker like me.”
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'Chess players already have the skills needed to succeed in poker'
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It's always fun to know when chess players succeed in any other field too. Just goes to prove that chess players are not uni-dimensional boring people they are stereotyped as often. Here is a nice article from PokerListings which releases its list of Best Bets for the upcoming World Series of Poker.
This time they have analysed 'types' of pokers players. Their second group is that of chess players. The article says, "If there is a group of people more prepared for success at the 2011 World Series of Poker than chess players, PokerListings hasn’t found it. Two world-class female chess players dominated the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational in Los Angeles this year en route to making the final table. And while Almira Skripchenko and Dinara Khaziyeva didn’t win, they proved they’re poised for big things in poker.
He says chess players, and in fact anyone with a gaming background, usually come ready to play. “There really is (something fundamental about chess that makes chess players successful at poker) and I think that goes for all the gaming crossovers,” he told PokerListings. “If you have a gaming mind then you have a lot of the same foundation. It goes for Magic the Gathering, backgammon and chess.
“Chess players are bringing a lot of the competitive sports psychology with them. While backgammon is more of the math side, in my opinion chess is more of a bluffing game. Because the positions are so cloudy, it gets really messy. “It is a game of complete information, but it’s purely artistic at some points. So some people can be really bad at the math in chess and still succeed, which isn’t the case in poker these days. “And all the pressure elements at the higher levels of chess, how to put pressure on your opponents, is very similar to poker. Also knowing when to change your approach and change your strategy.”
You can read further at this link.
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Chess & Poker: IM Almira Skripchenko runners-up at WPT Celeb Event
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She knows her mind: Chess & Poker
Hi everyone,
This chess master has become a permanent link between chess and poker. IM Almira Skripchenko is the runners-up in Hand #102 with Davidi Kitai winning the WPT Celebrity Invitational! ($100,000),
Here is how the final calls were played.
Level 30: 60,000-120,000, 20,000 ante
Kitai moves all in, and Skripchenko calls with A2. Kitai turns over Q3, and Skripchenko is a slight favorite to double up here.
The board comes AJ3QK -- Skripchenko flops a pair of aces, but Kitai turns two pair, queens and threes to win the hand -- and the tournament.
These were the final standings
1st: Davidi Kitai - $100,000
2nd: Almira Skripchenko - $50,000
3rd: Dan Heimiller - $20,000
4th: George Rechnitzer - $15,000
5th: Damon Schramm - $10,000
6th: Dinara Khaziyeva - $5,000
You can read more here.
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Lady Chess Stars Dominate World Poker Tour Invitational
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Who's that girl? Almira Skripchenko of course.
Hi everyone,
This is some fun news.
Two World-class female chess players dominated the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational in Los Angeles this weekend en route to making the final table.
While Minnesota lawyer and model Damon Schramm grabbed the lead heading into the Mar. 2 final six, stars of the Chess world Almira Skripchenko and Dinara Khaziyeva both retain a shot at the $74,500 in cash and $25,500 WPT Championship Seat that await the winner.
The rest of the final table includes poker pros Davidi Kitai and Dan Heimiller as well as West Coast regular George Rechnitzer.
You can read the full report here.
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