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[QUOTE="makisaa, post: 4892461, member: 150372"]
There are a few threads in the past and now about the relation between Olympics and poker. The translation for Olympics from the Greek is not accurate. There are no Olympic "games". Game is a sirious event but it is something different, it is something simpler. The direct translation from Greek is Olympic races (Greek: olympiaki agones-Ολυμπιακοί αγώνες). It is a personal fight. You have to prove your skills alone, which adds the element of honor. It shows and proves the value of human kind. It is the real spirit of Olympics. So poker it is a personal fight, but there are and the factor of luck and the money too. You cannot put luck or money as a basic factor, when it is about proving your skills and your honor! That is why poker is a game and cannot be in the Olympics. Normally all the games like card games, or like football, basketball, volleyball they are exciting games but they are just games and should take place separate from Olympics! They are away from the real spirit of the Olympics. Of course the today Olympics are not exactly Olympics with the " addition" of games and worst the addition of money interests! What are your thoughts?
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