Should Poker be an Olympic Sport?

[analudias]

This is a good question...poker requires strategy, intelligence, study your opponents, understand how the game is going on...like other sports.
So, what´s your oppinion...should poker be an Olympic Sport?
Remember that: prizes will be medals, worldwide fame, but no money (you will receive money only if your country´s olympic committee or your country´s government do that).

 

[Rui Ferreira]

Would be excellent

It would be great, skateboarding turned because not poker
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[VictorOd]

Tournament poker is a sport already in some countries. It's a game of skill after all. But Olympic sport? I don't think so.

 

[SPANKYSN]

Sounds reasonable, but how do you determine the weight classes???? LOL

 

[FastOne]

I don't consider poker a sport, so my answer is no.

 

[Germanets]

I don't think that it is good idea to make poker Olympic game. For me - Olympic sport is about physical conditions and physical competition, not about thinking) For example - chess is also not an Olympic sport. Another think that for me will be is not good for poker to be Olympic - Olympic games held once in 4 years(for specific sport). Winning or lousing is really serious think - not a level of winning yearly or monthly tournament - it's about working for 4 years. You will have only one chance in 4 years to get Olympic poker gold medal. And what will you think about poker, when you or your idol player will get bad beat?)
In my opinion - poker is more about long distance, not about one-time win. So we can't give all players the same chances for winning, and I have no idea how to do it in any short-term competition.

 

[ADRI7HO]

Would be super good if it was an Olympic sport out of poker. (Slowly, E-Sport will become an Olympic game, so poker could become an Olympic sport.)

 

[redmast]

The idea is certainly good and I support, but professionals are not allowed to the Olympic Games.

 

[FastOne]

The idea is certainly good and I support, but professionals are not allowed to the Olympic Games.

Actually, professional athletes are allowed to participate in the Olympics. As far as I know the only sports where professionals are not allowed are boxing and wrestling.

 

[ataraxyan]

I think it is possible to be an Olympic sport some day with chess and go. Because AI demonstrated poker is not just a gamble but a strategical game using brain. If it's just a gamble with out any relationship with strategy, AI couldn't beat human.

 

[roger perkins]

Come on people poker an Olympic sport? Then can we make beer pong one too? Oh and jello wrestling?

 

[lcid86]

Don't Olympic sports require physical exertion? Lifting, running, jumping, or some other physical activity?

 

[57noona]

No I don't think poker should be an Olympic Sport. I think Chess would be an Olympic Sport before poker ever was. And no I don't think Chess should be an Olympic Sport either. To me these games are games of the mind. Where Olympic Sports are games of the body. Granted you do a lot of thinking in most sports. But poker and chess are not physical at all therefore I believe that they are not sports.

 

[UnknownJebrone]

Of course not

 

[99TERRANCE99]

Chess isnt so cant see how poker would be

 

[Johnny78B]

No, no way. I like poker very much, this is my favorite game but including poker to the Olympic Games is really incredible. Sport is Sport, Poker is Poker. There are a lot of Championships and Events for poker so should be good enough.

 

[antonis32123]

Poker is a great game , why not ?? I would like them to add it some day to the Olympic schedule , expend a little the meaning of the sport and add it . There are some useless games , which are considered as sports and are being played in the Olympics , especially during the Winter Olympics , poker has so many fans when these strange sports have fans counted in the fingers of a dozen of people , or one person , lol

 

[Michel_11]

In my opinion not, despite all the strategic issues of the game, I don't consider it a sport. But I also don't consider chess a sport and it's considered ...

 

[namvidnee]

Poker is a sport. Therefore, it should be an Olympic sport

 

[maxmaster10]

poker is sport like a chess ( mental games) so, i guess yes!

 

[orchidra]

Come on people poker an Olympic sport? Then can we make beer pong one too? Oh and jello wrestling?

They have just included break dancing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, so I suppose anything is possible. However, I don't think poker will ever be included in the Olympics.

 

[Shay]

Itd be great!

 

[OzExorcist]

Kind of a moot point - the Olympics wants to keep as much distance between itself and gambling as possible, so even if they did consider "mind sports" (like chess) you'd still never see poker added.

 

[HungryLyan]

I definitely say it's no and poker is not considered to be sport at all. Where is the physical ability in poker?

 

[Nel1523]

From my point of view, no