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Message: [QUOTE="Odysseus101, post: 3328926, member: 211309"] Maybe someone is keeping a tally? A sport is the competitive combination of fitness and skill. Poker is a competitive combination of skill and luck. If the physical component of a competition is irrelevant or very minor to the success of the competitor, it's not a sport. I wouldn't call chess, darts, or bowling sports because while being fit will help the player to a small degree, fitness is hardly a component of the competition to the point where one player's fitness is likely to give that player any edge over the competition. I think that people are hung up on poker being a "sport" because they hope someday that it will be in the Olympics. Which would be absurd. If poker is a sport then pretty much everything competitive is a sport, right? [/QUOTE]