This reminds me of a story about a year ago when Walter Browne signed up for a poker event and the National Open (chess) in Las Vegas. He unexpectedly won over $58K in the poker event, but he couldn't be in two places at once. He had to skip the chess tournament.
http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2007/06/browne_cleans_up_in_vegas.htm
Originally posted by tonytiger41"Retired" chess player... Poker... Could it be!
read at the uschess.org site that a retired chess player made the "final table" at the world series of poker. finishing first will mean multi millions, while last place at the final table still means hundreds of thousands.
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Originally posted by exigentskythe two take-aways: 1) young chess players are opting out of chess for poker; and 2) poker cash payouts are higher compared to chess.
Of course chess players do many things but Poker is a completely different game and I don't see the relevance. Yes, Poker is probably more financially lucrative due to the lower barrier of entry, but as a game it has never attracted me like chess.
Originally posted by WulebgrOver here in the UK first it was sudoku & over the past couple of years there are now far more books about how to play Texas hold 'em than there are about chess in any bookshop.
In the bookstores, the poker guides are next to and crowding out the chess books