{"id":6535,"date":"2010-05-02T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T14:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2010-05-02T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T14:57:06","slug":"poker-has-been-declared-a-mind-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/02\/poker-has-been-declared-a-mind-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker has been declared a mind game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Mind Sports Association has declared that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compatiblepoker.com\/poker-rumors\/poker-declared-a-mind-game\/3678\">poker is a mind game<\/a>.\u00a0 That means poker will be played, along with other mind games including chess and bridge, in the World Mind Sports Games in London in 2012.\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s very cool and maybe it will help change the perception that poker is nothing but a form of gambling comparable to craps and roulette.\u00a0 Good poker players have to know expected value, pot odds, and implied odds.\u00a0 They have to be able to count cards that are &#8220;outs&#8221; toward winning a hand and convert the outs into percentages.\u00a0 They have to understand the importance of position at the table.\u00a0 They have to know how to project a table image that misleads the other players.\u00a0 Many of them master multiple games, including Hold&#8217;em, Omaha, Razz, Stud, Draw, and others.\u00a0\u00a0 Poker is most definitely a mind sport and I&#8217;m glad to see it getting recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Mind Sports Association has declared that poker is a mind game.\u00a0 That means poker will be played, along with other mind games including chess and bridge, in the World Mind Sports Games in London in 2012.\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s very cool and maybe it will help change the perception that poker is nothing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/02\/poker-has-been-declared-a-mind-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poker has been declared a mind game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6537,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions\/6537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->