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[QUOTE="ean, post: 1299750, member: 60706"]
Not a "sport", as there is no athletic action involved.  But then that would make NASCAR boardering on "not sport" status also.
 
Poker is a "competition", maybe more along the lines of Chess.   But poker has maybe a 25-30% "luck" factor, which is of course a lot higher than Chess would have or the "_ball" sports.   
 
Being on ESPN means nothing, because ESPN is "Entertainment and Sports Programming Network", so poker comes under the entertaining competitions.
 
The real problem poker has is in getting people to understand that inspite of more of a luck factor than other things, it is still more about SKILL in the long run than about the luck.
 
Look, even football, basket ball, etc. DO HAVE a luck factor!   A ball gets lost in the sun, bounces an odd way at wrong time and costs a game, etc.   The thing is that those are very small luck factors, like 1% or less.   So the chances of you or I getting lucky and  beating Tiger Woods is very small.
 
Poker has a very appreciable luck factor, and that's why on occasion, a lot of average players can occasionally beat the pros.
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