Will poker ever really be considered a sport?

PokStorm · Jun 23, 2020

What is certain is that there are situations in poker that increase your heart rate much more than a sprint of 100 meters

Transcendence · Jun 23, 2020

I don't put poker as something special, for me, Poker. It's just easy and fast money making

tihomir_kula · Jun 23, 2020

A great part of poker is formed by luck,so poker will never be treated as a sport.Physical power and skill are not so important in poker.

diago726 · Jun 23, 2020

Poker is science, art, and sport.

1nsomn1a · Jun 23, 2020

if poker ever has a chance to be considered a sport, it will be more related to offline poker, because what happens online will never deserve to be considered a sport.

oscarhuka · Jun 23, 2020

DS3 said:
No it will not. It takes a huge amount of lobbying for any sport to make it into the Olympic Games with some only admitted temporarily and others removed when losing popularity.

No serious person or body is going to lobby for poker to become an Olympic Sport.

New disciplines debuted at the youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018:

Young people looking for sports, personal and social growth, debuted 8 disciplines: karate, sport climbing, break, speed skating on wheels, futsal, kiteboarding, beach handball and BMX Freestyle.

Poker today is increasingly dominated by young youth.

Why not ??

DS3 · Jun 23, 2020

oscarhuka said:
New disciplines debuted at the youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018:

Young people looking for sports, personal and social growth, debuted 8 disciplines: karate, sport climbing, break, speed skating on wheels, futsal, kiteboarding, beach handball and BMX Freestyle.

Poker today is increasingly dominated by young youth.

Why not ??

I noted new sports entering the Olympics.

But why not check in with Mike McDonald at Poker Shares and ask him to give a line on 'will poker become an Olympic Sport?' and see what odds he'll give you.

Zvezda kz · Jun 23, 2020

I Live Poker said:
In my opinion it will never be, because in a sport the main factor is skill, which is achieved with a lot of discipline and repetition. What doesn't happen in poker ... there is no point in practicing studying, making the right move when the luck factor or "bad luck" has a very high weight on the player's performance. So I find it very hypocritical on the part of people who live on the basis of marketing, to be nurturing dreams, investing time and money in something that doesn’t depend exclusively on technique and performance. of the main characteristics of the "sport" mainly individual. except for some team sports ... but you never say Nadal was champion 3 times but was lucky, Or tennis player was champion against nadal but it was lucky ... Or Nadal was unlucky and got the vice championship. The answer will always be played badly and lost, it wasn't right ended up making mistakes ... So poker has an advantage over the sport, an amateur can become a champion exclusively by luck overnight. And definitely it doesn't happen in any "fair" sport, it is this factor that makes poker so unfair and frustrating.

Yes, I also consider this factor one of the main against poker as a sports discipline.

brunonick269 · Jun 25, 2020

IntenseHeat said:
Not saying that I disagree with you, but we all remember Jesse James Silvia. That dude tried so very hard to bluff his whole stack off so many times. Time after time, he hit two and three outers to suck out when he got picked off. I'm just saying.

And youre not whrong too, but every sport have this things. Do you already saw Itonya movie?? She try so hard for all seasons to be first even doing somethind that nobody else can do and yet she can. Every sport have his ups and downs. Every sport have the "lucky" or the variation, in his way.

ntf1125 · Jun 25, 2020

I feel that a sport is athletic (= physical skills). Therefore, Poker isn´t a sport.

brunonick269 · Jun 25, 2020

IntenseHeat said:
According IMSA, the International Mind Sport Association, both chess and poker are considered mind sports. I don't think that a sport and a mind sport are the same thing. They certainly have different definitions.

According to Chess.com, chess is not a sport. So I guess whether poker or chess are sports depend on who you ask. If you ask me, I say that, according the dictionary definition of sport, neither poker nor chess is a sport.

Youre not wrong to think that each one have different definitions, but chess.com and the dictionary are just opinios of a plataform and of a writer. IMSA are the organisation who control what is or not sport, they are not some people who think chess or poker is a sport. They are responsable for define the game wich have enough complexity to not be just a game but a game with so many tatics and strategy that have to count habilities first and not lucky.

Serg77 · Jun 25, 2020

I think the reason is why poker won't be a sport because players aren't in the same condition. I mean some have nice hands due the tournament and some non of them. Every hand increase you probability to win but not grantee that. You can do everything excellent but lose because of accidental 2 on the river (for example)

Serg77 · Jun 25, 2020

Your tournament results don't show your professional level.

JoeDurt · Jun 25, 2020

I doubt it!

I Live Poker · Jun 25, 2020

Very good answers can't be counted! hahahahah!
Look, someone said that sports are lucky, poker is an individual sport, you can't compare with a football or basketball team, compare with table tennis, tennis, golf, boxing is never luck it can be a bad day, some injury, lack of preparation, psychological state. but when mike tison lost to hollifield, it was not hollifild's luck.Or when you make a mistake even if you are the favorite, but you never get lost playing in the best form with the best play there the opponent goes and luck ....

Lena M · Jun 25, 2020

I Live Poker said:
In my opinion it will never be, because in a sport the main factor is skill, which is achieved with a lot of discipline and repetition. What doesn't happen in poker ... there is no point in practicing studying, making the right move when the luck factor or "bad luck" has a very high weight on the player's performance. So I find it very hypocritical on the part of people who live on the basis of marketing, to be nurturing dreams, investing time and money in something that doesn’t depend exclusively on technique and performance. of the main characteristics of the "sport" mainly individual. except for some team sports ... but you never say Nadal was champion 3 times but was lucky, Or tennis player was champion against nadal but it was lucky ... Or Nadal was unlucky and got the vice championship. The answer will always be played badly and lost, it wasn't right ended up making mistakes ... So poker has an advantage over the sport, an amateur can become a champion exclusively by luck overnight. And definitely it doesn't happen in any "fair" sport, it is this factor that makes poker so unfair and frustrating.

Hello.
I do not think poker is a sport. Poker is very similar to sports, but frankly, it is gambling. Of course, an amateur can become a champion for one night, but an amateur will never be able to become a professional in one or even a hundred nights.

BlackJesus · Jun 25, 2020

With texas hold'em certainly not. However, I am thinking it possibly could be with other formats, where skill is truly tested, especially HORSE or 7 card stud. But, emm, given how small player pool play those, it is obvious you can't organize a serious competition to make it a sport.

IntenseHeat · Jun 25, 2020

brunonick269 said:
Youre not wrong to think that each one have different definitions, but chess.com and the dictionary are just opinios of a plataform and of a writer. IMSA are the organisation who control what is or not sport, they are not some people who think chess or poker is a sport. They are responsable for define the game wich have enough complexity to not be just a game but a game with so many tatics and strategy that have to count habilities first and not lucky.

I don't think you understand the distinction between a sport and a mind sport. Mind sports are mental-skill games like chess, checkers, backgammon, and various other strategy and board games. Sports go back more than three thousand years. IMSA has only existed for fifteen. It is not now, nor has it ever been the arbiter of what is and isn't a sport. It only decides which mental-skill games, which it refers to as mind sports, fall under it's purview. It isn't even the arbiter of what falls into the category of mind sports. It only decides which ones it concerns itself with for purposes of competitions that it oversees. But there are many other mind sport groups and organizations, many of which consider such activities as speed reading, computer programming and even speed texting to be mind sports. But they all make a clear distinction between what is a sport and what is a mind sport. You are the only one that doesn't seem to.

brunonick269 · Jun 27, 2020

If it wasnt sport the name it woulb be IMGA, international mind games asociation or something.
Sports mid are sports. Just like motocross or another. Mind sports are all sports. Why they call sports if have no asociation with the real sport??

IntenseHeat · Jun 27, 2020

brunonick269 said:
If it wasnt sport the name it woulb be IMGA, international mind games asociation or something.
Sports mid are sports. Just like motocross or another. Mind sports are all sports. Why they call sports if have no asociation with the real sport??

Purely for marketing purposes.

When the mind sport concept originated back in 1997, the founders of the original Mind Sports Organisation acknowledged that most of the activities were extremely sedentary in nature and thus run counter to the definition of sport. However, the use of the term sport is suggestive of a certain level of competition. So it was decided that, from a marketing standpoint, the use of the term sport was preferable for the purposes of attempting to raise interest in and increasing the popularity of these mental-skill competitions.

mclaughlinph · Jun 28, 2020

I think poker is a sport. In the context of playing competitively for a prize. For the sport of it. It obviously isnt a traditional or commonly thought of sport that involves physical exertion. But it does take many of the factors that athletes need in there respective sports. Like patience, skill, focus, and practice. But I think it is more appropriate to say poker is a sport but poker players are not athletes.

slais_pro · Sep 9, 2020

I think that poker will become a sport someday, because there is everything here, competitions, training, defeats and victories!

Pokerstudy · Sep 9, 2020

It is a mind sport, and calculating hundreds of algebraic equations for hours is just as exhausting as playing golf or any other sport really, if not way more. Nobody ever really takes into account how much stamina you need to play long poker sessions using your mind, because they/people/rail birds consider it "easy" physically... it is actually not.

BTW there have been many studies that show that the body does not really need sleep/rest physically, but the brain does actually need rest..so tiredness/exhaustion/exertion is very subjective at best.

Just because we are not playing football/rugby/hockey and being asinine by physically ruining our bodies, does not mean we are not playing a sport

Railbird defined
https://www.casinoanswers.com/online-poker/beginners/railbird-definition.php
also as Johnathan Little says in his book, the 'Peanut gallery' hahaha good stuff
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/peanut+gallery

Shrops · Sep 9, 2020

No

I love the game of poker but no it's not a true sport.

Nathan Williams · Sep 10, 2020

Probably not, but then again, I don't spend too much time worrying about what the general public thinks about the game

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