I’ve played both chess and poker competitively, and while chess is pure logic and strategy, poker adds the psychological layer of reading opponents and adapting on the fly. What’s interesting is how AI is evolving in both games. In poker, tools like Poker Bot AI are becoming game-changers, helping players analyze hands and improve real-time decision-making. Unlike chess engines that show you the best move, poker AI deals with uncertainty and incomplete information, which feels more “human”. Both games are deeply skill-based, but poker offers a unique blend of logic and psychology.
Chess VS Poker
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Getting better at both requires similar hard work. I feel like it’s harder to study poker, because you often get mixed feedback. You might go all in with a better hand and then lose by the river. The solvers are the best you’ve got, but best players themselves don’t always listen to them. The variability makes it difficult
Victor231513 wrote:
Poker is a game of skill and psychology, where you need to understand the odds, make strategic decisions, and read your opponents. It's about bluffing, managing risk, and knowing when to hold ‘em or fold ‘em. The unpredictability of poker, especially in a casino or online environment, adds a thrill that chess doesn't necessarily offer.
Agree about the thrill thing, I think its exposure to variance. But then, in chess, you could say that you get the same variance, just in a different way; please let me elaborate: every chess player gets "variance" when they reach the mental limit of thinking or seeing X moves ahead, because past that there is just uncertainty. We could also call It luck btw but some pple may get angry bc the term luck has a bad reputation in chess. So basically: the more moves you can think ahead the less variance you may encounter against any opponent assuming he is the same elo or lower , the lower the less. And we could go deeper here into game theory and entropy past the point of uncertainty
Chess is better because people get addicted to casinos and loss all they life savings while chess isn’t in casinos and yes you could loss money if your are betting money. And one more thing don’t play at a casino play with your friends because some casinos cheat while chess you cant really cheat.
marqumax wrote:
Getting better at both requires similar hard work. I feel like it’s harder to study poker, because you often get mixed feedback. You might go all in with a better hand and then lose by the river. The solvers are the best you’ve got, but best players themselves don’t always listen to them. The variability makes it difficult
Ok lets dissect this, to make It clearer. Assuming that with 'mixed feedback' you mean short term variance, if i understood well : you are saying that its harder to study poker because the short term variance delays the winning gratification (assuming you play many enough hands in a big enough sample, with a winning strategy, to make an upswing chart). - Somewhat agree about that specifically if money is involved, but some people are able to make It manageble for them
About the solvers and variability that comes from using them or not statement : imo , nowadays, the solvers spoiled the game to the point of making a clear difference between somebody using them and somebody not. Being the clear winning side the ones who use them(talking about online mainly, live is becoming like online slowly too tho)
Ok let me start a discussion somewhat worth of thinking about. Poker Texas nl VS chess.Which one is better and why ?