Do You Consider Poker a Sport?

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i dont class it as a sport, sport is something you use energy playing, poker is a pastime in my opinion
 
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Poker is such a good sport that should be an olympic sport! With money awards and medals!
 
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Live poker requires driving skills !
 
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Put it right up there with backgammon and chess. I consider poker a game. I suppose a video gamer trying to convince others that playing the xbox a sport is s dimilsr discussion.
 
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typos happen........obv........I think poker is a sport....depends on how you look at it
 
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I think anything that has to be classified in "sport" is in the eye of the beholder! :D
 
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As usual, opinions are divided)
My opinion is that if there is no physical activity that is not a sport
What about archery, dart, pool, snooker not exactly physical activity
 
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Here the true about why poker is really a top demanding Sport. I went 3 months ago seeing my doctor and he says to me that I need to exercise more, so I began to play more hours of online poker everyday since.

It was very demanding at a physical level, struggling with so much pain in the back, joints and tendons in the hands, in the first weeks, very difficult and hard to don´t give up. But I survive and now I start to get in shape and can play even more hours and grind more and more and feeling everyday much more healthy in all kind of way$!

Is really a good sport poker... no doubt :boxing:
 
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i think, the poker is lifestyle, not sport.. :)
 
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Sport=effort fizic. Poker=math, concetration
 
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Just today, because I was running late, I had to speed walk the whole parking lot to get to a tourney......

necessary

And is fishing a sport?
 
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yep, and the exercise you have to make to in 5 min. tournment break go to the bathroom, pick up food and drinks and seat again at the tables!!! Really hard sport!!!
 
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And is fishing a sport?

Not to derail the thread, but I see fishing as a sport, yes. Fishing actually can involve quite a bit of physical exertion, and the wrong technique with the fishing rod can make you lose the fish. Believe me, I've been out fishing for shark and I've caught a near 150 pounder. Took me about an hour to get him to the boat. Believe me when I say that by the time I landed him, I was EXHAUSTED.
 
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Not to derail the thread, but I see fishing as a sport, yes. Fishing actually can involve quite a bit of physical exertion, and the wrong technique with the fishing rod can make you lose the fish. Believe me, I've been out fishing for shark and I've caught a near 150 pounder. Took me about an hour to get him to the boat. Believe me when I say that by the time I landed him, I was EXHAUSTED.

No, I agree. Sport fishing. Makes sense. They are not all little guys. And even some of those require physical exertion.
 
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Hell haveing a job is a sport. something your dedicating your day too, stretching, eating high octane energy bars and gaterade, not to mention your body so worn out at a table you can get a massage. pokers a sport
 
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Without doubts it is not a sport, it is a game of another characteristic, that it does not enter like a sport
 
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a sport ...??ok we love poker but it's a game
 
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Mike Sexton said: Of course, in terms of mental stress, do not think that any sport can compete here.
 
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that sport is sport but also is a great fun: D
 
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Poker is not worse than chess or backgammon, for example. Of course it's a sport.
 
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