Poker players are both gamblers and sportsmen, the gamblers are most likely playing cash games, looking for that QUICK buck, while the sportsmen are tournament players willing to wait for that buck.
Go try to win the WSOP and tell me that being in good physical condition doesn't help.
Having to be at your utmost mentally for hours on end for over a week straight is physically grueling...
Go tell a professional chess player that competitive chess isn't sport.
It's one of my biggest problems with the whole Black Friday nonsense in the "land of the free." Professional golfers play for millions of dollars. Professional golfers are, almost to a man, degenerate gamblers.
It doesn't really bother me if people call it a sport or a game, but we live in a world where driving a car is considered sport... and so is League of Legends... so yeah.
Go try to win the WSOP and tell me that being in good physical condition doesn't help.
Say wut?
And John Daly used to play golf and Butterbean used to fight.
All I said was being in good physical condition is helpful because a long event like the WSOP *is* physically grueling. Your brain is just what is being exerted the most.
Like I said, though... I'm not one of those people who gets irked if you say poker isn't a sport. I understand that viewpoint as well, for sure.
It's poker, it transcends definition...:icon_rr: