Olympic event

[zasterguava]

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Next time you are in your local casino playing, take a look around your table/the room and tell me these folks are athletes.

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darts?

[Piemaster]

For those saying that poker is not a sport, how would you define a sport?

(Note, I am not saying that I disagree with you)

[zasterguava]

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For those saying that poker is not a sport, how would you define a sport?

(Note, I am not saying that I disagree with you)

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more skill than luck

[Wongboy]

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For those saying that poker is not a sport, how would you define a sport?

(Note, I am not saying that I disagree with you)

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Wikipedia:
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Used by itself, sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors. Sports are used as entertainment for the player and the viewer. It has also been proven by experiments that daily exercise increases mental strength and power to study.

Dictionary.com:
sport /spɔrt, spoʊrt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spawrt, spohrt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
6. an object of derision; laughingstock.
7. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
8. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
9. a sportsman.
10. Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
11. Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
12. Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
13. Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
14. Obsolete. amorous dalliance.
–adjective 15. of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport.
16. suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
–verb (used without object) 17. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
18. to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
19. to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
20. to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
21. to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
22. Botany. to mutate.
–verb (used with object) 23. to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
24. to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away).
25. Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.
26. Archaic. to amuse (esp. oneself).

[Wongboy]

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Fwiw, if it were to get chosen, the purest event with the least luck would have to be used (whilst still having a mass appeal) - a heads up deepstack PL holdem tourney where rounds are played best of 3 (at least) would be best imo.

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Why a tourney, and why only one game? I think we would want to find the best all-around player.

My vote is to have players playing 6 tables of HORSE (2 full ring, 1 6 handed, 1 heads-up, 1 SNG, 1 MTT); 3 tables of 2-7 TD (cash, SNG, MTT), and 3 tables of 5 card draw (cash, SNG, MTT). All 12 tables would be played simultaneously on 3 monitors, with the horse games offset so that all 12 tables would be on different games at the same time. This is the best test of true poker ability, IMHO.

[zasterguava]

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Fwiw, if it were to get chosen, the purest event with the least luck would have to be used (whilst still having a mass appeal) - a heads up deepstack PL holdem tourney where rounds are played best of 3 (at least) would be best imo.

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wwinner still wouldnt reflect best player to anywhere near the same degree as other sports
Why a tourney, and why only one game? I think we would want to find the best all-around player.

My vote is to have players playing 6 tables of HORSE (2 full ring, 1 6 handed, 1 heads-up, 1 SNG, 1 MTT); 3 tables of 2-7 TD (cash, SNG, MTT), and 3 tables of 5 card draw (cash, SNG, MTT). All 12 tables would be played simultaneously on 3 monitors, with the horse games offset so that all 12 tables would be on different games at the same time. This is the best test of true poker ability, IMHO.

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[Bonified]

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For those saying that poker is not a sport, how would you define a sport?

(Note, I am not saying that I disagree with you)

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Well, the commissioner of the World Series of Poker (and therefore the most important man in the world of poker) said poker was a sport "because it's on ESPN and the S stands for Sport".

Which puts it right up there with hot-dog eating. I haven't seen any dog-jumping this year though, is it out of season ?

[qwnu]

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Well, the commissioner of the World Series of Poker (and therefore the most important man in the world of poker) said poker was a sport "because it's on ESPN and the S stands for Sport".

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This is the correct answer. Poker is clearly a sport.

Also riding-lawnmower racing, which can be seen from time to time on ESPN8 - "The Ocho".

[stabn]

God op starts a retarded troll and somehow gets this many posts. 2p2 posters are getting dumber by the day.

[zasterguava]

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God op starts a retarded troll and somehow gets this many posts. 2p2 posters are getting dumber by the day.

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...and yet you, yourself, replied?