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[QUOTE="RocwX, post: 4887663, member: 263681"]
I have a hard time trying to understand the concept behind these "mind sports". I understand that there is a lot of skill involved and you get prizes according to your performance, just like regular sports such as basketball or football. But the same is true for other competitions like MasterChef and The Voice. Are those sports as well? I think I tend to associate physical prowess with the concept of sport.

In any case, let's say poker becomes widely accepted as a sport. Even then I doubt it would ever be a part of the Olympics because it's definitely not consistent. In individual sports like Judo or Fencing you can see that the best athletes at the Olympics are basically the same from the last world championship. The best players will almost always perform very well and there is basically no way a low ranked player would come out of nowhere to get the Gold medal, which could very well happen in poker. A possibility would be to hold several tournaments with the players getting points according to their results on each of them. It would help but not solve the problem.

Also, people above noted that every sport takes luck and that's true, of course. But in poker you could very well see the fight for the Gold and Silver medals happening through a preflop all in flip like a pocket pair vs two overcards and you can't say any of them made a mistake by going all in with those hands. That's not really what the Olympics are all about.
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