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Message: [QUOTE="PHAkash, post: 7236351, member: 1046130"] I believe that this question, as it was phrased, opens the door for poker to be seen as a game of chance. POKER IS NOT A GAME OF CHANCE! Here where I live, in Brazil, there is a decree-law (3,688, of October 3, 1941) that defines games of chance as: "those whose outcome depends exclusively or predominantly on luck, and not on the skill or strategy of the player." I believe that this definition is very close to reality, regardless of the culture and world knowledge in which you, the reader, are immersed. I believe that the big problem lies in the fact that people have a mistaken understanding that games of chance are games where the luck factor exists. Well, the luck factor is present in everything. If such a statement were true, life itself would be a game of chance. But it seems to me that things are not quite like that. Regarding whether or not it is a mind sport, IMAS (International Mind Sports Association) recognized poker as a mind sport in 2024. Still, there are debates about what constitutes mind sports. This debate is not limited to poker; it is a somewhat more generalized debate, also encompassing eSports and chess, for example. Those who disagree with the term argue that the term "sport" refers to "the methodical practice, individual or collective, of a game or any activity that demands PHYSICAL EXERCISE and skill, for the purposes of recreation, maintaining physical fitness and health, and/or competition; sport." (definition of the term in Portuguese). I believe that spoken language is alive, changing and transforming over time, with new terms and words emerging to define new things. Dictionaries are like a registry of language; they merely record the use of a particular word or term, stating the meaning with which these terms or words are used in everyday life, without defining how they should be used. Therefore, it's natural that words and terms, such as "mind sport," appear and are used with meanings somewhat different from those found in usage records, in dictionaries. [/QUOTE]

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