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oscarhuka
Rock Star
Silver Level
New disciplines debuted at the youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018:
Young people looking for sports, personal and social growth, debuted 8 disciplines: karate, sport climbing, break, speed skating on wheels, futsal, kiteboarding, beach handball and BMX Freestyle.
Poker today is increasingly dominated by young youth.
Why not ??
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DS3
Legend
Loyaler
I noted new sports entering the Olympics.
But why not check in with Mike McDonald at Poker Shares and ask him to give a line on 'will poker become an Olympic Sport?' and see what odds he'll give you.
Zvezda kz
Legend
Bronze Level
Yes, I also consider this factor one of the main against poker as a sports discipline.
brunonick269
Rock Star
Silver Level
And youre not whrong too, but every sport have this things. Do you already saw Itonya movie?? She try so hard for all seasons to be first even doing somethind that nobody else can do and yet she can. Every sport have his ups and downs. Every sport have the "lucky" or the variation, in his way.
brunonick269
Rock Star
Silver Level
Youre not wrong to think that each one have different definitions, but chess.com and the dictionary are just opinios of a plataform and of a writer. IMSA are the organisation who control what is or not sport, they are not some people who think chess or poker is a sport. They are responsable for define the game wich have enough complexity to not be just a game but a game with so many tatics and strategy that have to count habilities first and not lucky.
Serg77
Rock Star
Silver Level
I think the reason is why poker won't be a sport because players aren't in the same condition. I mean some have nice hands due the tournament and some non of them. Every hand increase you probability to win but not grantee that. You can do everything excellent but lose because of accidental 2 on the river (for example) 
I Live Poker
Legend
Platinum Level
Very good answers can't be counted! hahahahah!
Look, someone said that sports are lucky, poker is an individual sport, you can't compare with a football or basketball team, compare with table tennis, tennis, golf, boxing is never luck it can be a bad day, some injury, lack of preparation, psychological state. but when mike tison lost to hollifield, it was not hollifild's luck.Or when you make a mistake even if you are the favorite, but you never get lost playing in the best form with the best play there the opponent goes and luck ....
Look, someone said that sports are lucky, poker is an individual sport, you can't compare with a football or basketball team, compare with table tennis, tennis, golf, boxing is never luck it can be a bad day, some injury, lack of preparation, psychological state. but when mike tison lost to hollifield, it was not hollifild's luck.Or when you make a mistake even if you are the favorite, but you never get lost playing in the best form with the best play there the opponent goes and luck ....
Lena M
Legend
Loyaler
Hello.
I do not think poker is a sport. Poker is very similar to sports, but frankly, it is gambling. Of course, an amateur can become a champion for one night, but an amateur will never be able to become a professional in one or even a hundred nights.
BlackJesus
Visionary
Silver Level
With texas hold'em certainly not. However, I am thinking it possibly could be with other formats, where skill is truly tested, especially HORSE or 7 card stud. But, emm, given how small player pool play those, it is obvious you can't organize a serious competition to make it a sport.
IntenseHeat
Legend
Bronze Level
I don't think you understand the distinction between a sport and a mind sport. Mind sports are mental-skill games like chess, checkers, backgammon, and various other strategy and board games. Sports go back more than three thousand years. IMSA has only existed for fifteen. It is not now, nor has it ever been the arbiter of what is and isn't a sport. It only decides which mental-skill games, which it refers to as mind sports, fall under it's purview. It isn't even the arbiter of what falls into the category of mind sports. It only decides which ones it concerns itself with for purposes of competitions that it oversees. But there are many other mind sport groups and organizations, many of which consider such activities as speed reading, computer programming and even speed texting to be mind sports. But they all make a clear distinction between what is a sport and what is a mind sport. You are the only one that doesn't seem to.
brunonick269
Rock Star
Silver Level
If it wasnt sport the name it woulb be IMGA, international mind games asociation or something.
Sports mid are sports. Just like motocross or another. Mind sports are all sports. Why they call sports if have no asociation with the real sport??
Sports mid are sports. Just like motocross or another. Mind sports are all sports. Why they call sports if have no asociation with the real sport??
IntenseHeat
Legend
Bronze Level
Purely for marketing purposes.
When the mind sport concept originated back in 1997, the founders of the original Mind Sports Organisation acknowledged that most of the activities were extremely sedentary in nature and thus run counter to the definition of sport. However, the use of the term sport is suggestive of a certain level of competition. So it was decided that, from a marketing standpoint, the use of the term sport was preferable for the purposes of attempting to raise interest in and increasing the popularity of these mental-skill competitions.
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mclaughlinph
Rock Star
Silver Level
I think poker is a sport. In the context of playing competitively for a prize. For the sport of it. It obviously isnt a traditional or commonly thought of sport that involves physical exertion. But it does take many of the factors that athletes need in there respective sports. Like patience, skill, focus, and practice. But I think it is more appropriate to say poker is a sport but poker players are not athletes.
Pokerstudy
Legend
Bronze Level
It is a mind sport, and calculating hundreds of algebraic equations for hours is just as exhausting as playing golf or any other sport really, if not way more. Nobody ever really takes into account how much stamina you need to play long poker sessions using your mind, because they/people/rail birds consider it "easy" physically... it is actually not.
BTW there have been many studies that show that the body does not really need sleep/rest physically, but the brain does actually need rest..so tiredness/exhaustion/exertion is very subjective at best.
Just because we are not playing football/rugby/hockey and being asinine by physically ruining our bodies, does not mean we are not playing a sport
Railbird defined
https://www.casinoanswers.com/online-poker/beginners/railbird-definition.php
also as Johnathan Little says in his book, the 'Peanut gallery' hahaha good stuff
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/peanut+gallery
BTW there have been many studies that show that the body does not really need sleep/rest physically, but the brain does actually need rest..so tiredness/exhaustion/exertion is very subjective at best.
Just because we are not playing football/rugby/hockey and being asinine by physically ruining our bodies, does not mean we are not playing a sport
Railbird defined
https://www.casinoanswers.com/online-poker/beginners/railbird-definition.php
also as Johnathan Little says in his book, the 'Peanut gallery' hahaha good stuff
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/peanut+gallery
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