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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 4047255, member: 23910"] This is a topic that comes up every now and then, and I have the same reply every time. Poker won't ever become an Olympic sport, for a whole bunch of reasons. Here's just the biggest ones: 1: Poker isn't a sport 2: Poker is gambling, and the IOC [B]hates[/B] gambling. It doesn't want gambling within a hundred miles of their precious Olympic games. 3: Even if the above weren't the massive roadblocks that they clearly are, who is going to actually [I]do the work[/I] to make poker an Olympic sport? Real sports don't get to be in the Olympics just because someone things it'd be fun. Those sports have to actually lobby the IOC to get included (or to not get cut - think about wrestling a few years ago). That lobbying requires international governing bodies for the sports in question to do the work, ones that have funding and manpower. No such thing exists for poker. [/QUOTE]