Tvorets said:
Poker is a sport that involves chance.
Sport is a competition that involves skills that can be used in combat.
Poker is not physical? Player needs to be well physically and mentally - needs to be rested and hydrated - needs to be able to sit for extended periods of time (not unlike Luge....need to be in one basic position).
Good luck !
My personal opinion is that I think that poker is a gamble, but many believe that poker is a sport and now in Ukraine people and the administration have signed contracts and poker is now an official sport, but now let gamblers play sports!Tvorets said:
Poker is a game of chance?
Poker is a sport, and hability and knowledge are factors that determine who will be among the best in a tonight, the luck factor has a small percentage in poker.
Phil Ivey is a professional poker player who has won several titles at the wsop, which proves that skill and knowledge are factors that determine who will win or be among the best.
Gambling is a game where skill and knowledge makes no difference, the player can win 1 or 2 times, but in the long run he will lose. In the great majority of the times is a game where the probability of winning is small, like a roulette, the more you play, the more you lose, the nickel hunting is another example of gambling the machine is programmed, and it is possible to program for it win 100% of the time, and of course this does not happen, the percentage is mostly between 60% and 80%, the more you play the more you lose.
Poker is a sport, and hability and knowledge are factors that determine who will be among the best in a tonight, the luck factor has a small percentage in poker.
Phil Ivey is a professional poker player who has won several titles at the wsop, which proves that skill and knowledge are factors that determine who will win or be among the best.
Gambling is a game where skill and knowledge makes no difference, the player can win 1 or 2 times, but in the long run he will lose. In the great majority of the times is a game where the probability of winning is small, like a roulette, the more you play, the more you lose, the nickel hunting is another example of gambling the machine is programmed, and it is possible to program for it win 100% of the time, and of course this does not happen, the percentage is mostly between 60% and 80%, the more you play the more you lose.
Is poker a sport or a game of chance?
Exactly one year after its founding, on April 29, 2009, the International Poker Federation (IPF) achieved its highest goal: the recognition of poker as a mental sport.
The International Mind Games Association (IMSA) acknowledged on the 29th that poker is a mental sport. The decision was announced in Dubai, where the association's Annual Congress takes place. Poker now joins the other four "Mind Sports": Chess, Bridge, Checkers and Go.
Here is a list of the richest poker players, which proves there is nothing to do with gambling.
Antonio Esfandiari, total earnings: US $ 23,439,917.
Sam Trickett, current earnings: $ 18,717,124.
Daniel Negreanu, Total earnings: $ 18,252,229.
Erik Seidel, total winnings: $ 17,602,056.
Phil Hellmuth, o total de ganhos: $ 15.805.950.
The game is a game in which to win or lose, does not depend on the skill of the player, most of the time the mathematical odds are used to define the prize, the lower the probability of the hit, the higher the prize.
If you bet money on someone, face or crown, you have 50%, chance to win and 50% chance to lose, every time the coin is played the bet is $ 1, if you play 100 times, your profit or the injury will be close to zero.
In games like roulette, the chance to hit a random number is 2.70%, against 97.30% of the casino, it is a game that the more you play, the more you lose.
Who does not want to join a game where the chance of you winning is 97%, that's why casino billings and billions of dollars.
Games of chance are games created with studies of mathematical probability, in which the player has a very small chance of winning
Exactly one year after its founding, on April 29, 2009, the International Poker Federation (IPF) achieved its highest goal: the recognition of poker as a mental sport.
The International Mind Games Association (IMSA) acknowledged on the 29th that poker is a mental sport. The decision was announced in Dubai, where the association's Annual Congress takes place. Poker now joins the other four "Mind Sports": Chess, Bridge, Checkers and Go.
Here is a list of the richest poker players, which proves there is nothing to do with gambling.
Antonio Esfandiari, total earnings: US $ 23,439,917.
Sam Trickett, current earnings: $ 18,717,124.
Daniel Negreanu, Total earnings: $ 18,252,229.
Erik Seidel, total winnings: $ 17,602,056.
Phil Hellmuth, o total de ganhos: $ 15.805.950.
The game is a game in which to win or lose, does not depend on the skill of the player, most of the time the mathematical odds are used to define the prize, the lower the probability of the hit, the higher the prize.
If you bet money on someone, face or crown, you have 50%, chance to win and 50% chance to lose, every time the coin is played the bet is $ 1, if you play 100 times, your profit or the injury will be close to zero.
In games like roulette, the chance to hit a random number is 2.70%, against 97.30% of the casino, it is a game that the more you play, the more you lose.
Who does not want to join a game where the chance of you winning is 97%, that's why casino billings and billions of dollars.
Games of chance are games created with studies of mathematical probability, in which the player has a very small chance of winning
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Tvorets said:
I guess to some extend poker has characteristics of a sport, however in my opinion is not a sport as it does not include the physical aspect. It is a "game" like chess.
The contestants mental ability is far more important than their physical ability. In fact physical ability would be reasonably far down the rank of required skills in a game like poker. (Physical conditions can still give you an advantage over opponents in poker, however they would be more important in longer forms of the game like multi-day tournaments)
At the end of the day it comes down to your personal definition of sport. If you consider the above definition, the only word that doesn't make poker a sport is "physical".
Tvorets said:
What makes something a sport? By definition it isn't a sport. I would say poker is a game so I guess I would have to pick game of chance since those are the options.
Oxford Dictionary defines sport as "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or a team competes against another or others for entertainment"
Not much physical exertion in poker unfortunately. I would love it if I could get physically fit from just playing poker.
BullXT said:
Agree with most of this.
Poker has every reason to be considered an intellectual sport like chess. In poker, there is no exercise, but no one argues that billiards, golf, darts are not sports.People who do not know well about poker, it seems that he belongs to gambling. Luck factor of course is present, but only at short distances.The game is fun for money, but for example, most tennis tournaments have entry fees for participation, and the strongest wins them. We can discuss this topic for a long time, for me poker is a sport!
The point here is that performance is predictable. In a game of chance there would be no correlation in the winnings of players across successive periods, whereas there would be in a game of skill. So we know for sure that poker can’t be a game of pure chance.