Interesting question and some valid answers given! Poker is as competitive and popular as most sports out there. Just because it is a form of gambling shouldn’t detract from it’s sport status.
I agree with the Jack Daniel too. It’s all about having natural physical ability rather than mental ability.
Chess for instance is like poker in that it’s about mental prowess.
Thats why snooker is also considered a sport even tho it’s not very taxing. It’s about the physical ability to hit a ball at the correct angle and in the correct way.
Would not matter either way, but just in case, loose some weight and try and see the difference. Watch WPT where this aussie guy, that sorta looks like a gaming pc lan guy I know, thought I don’t think he a sporting guy, he works at mines though. But he is quite overweight, and he ended up winning a poker tour challange himself. It’s all about the mind, and that’s what sport people would do anyway.
Even if I play quite a bit of poker myself, I would have to say that poker is not a sport. A sport is where you physically activate yourself and no sport could include sitting down for hours and hours.
It is too obvious that poker is not a sport. I could never stress this enough. Lowskank above is all too right, Mental activity and concentration are used in absolutely everything, yet we don’t name toenail cutting and curtain pulling sports do we?
Being able to be in a mental strain, to bluff your opponents etc. Is a life skill, its called lying, being brave and guiltless. All things good to have, but not at all required for sporting.
Simply, a sport is a game requiring physical prowess and activity, poker holds mental strain and perhaps the bigger tournaments tire you out, but that does not at all make it physical, it makes the players tired and uncomfortable. Go to church for that if you like too, but I don’t see many professional churchgoers bragging about their sporting skill.
Poker is not a sport, go to hell all who think the opposite.
i agree with the comment above mine and also to the other comment above that one so all you disbelievers take a look at that and just give up. Poker is a sport
Lowskank there are plenty of fat guys playing sport- John Daly among other fat golfers, about half the pro dart players, wrestlers etc. etc. Being fat does not stop one being a sportsman
7/9/2008 at 9:26pm
Interesting question and some valid answers given! Poker is as competitive and popular as most sports out there. Just because it is a form of gambling shouldn’t detract from it’s sport status.
7/9/2008 at 12:20pm
I agree with the Jack Daniel too. It’s all about having natural physical ability rather than mental ability.
Chess for instance is like poker in that it’s about mental prowess.
Thats why snooker is also considered a sport even tho it’s not very taxing. It’s about the physical ability to hit a ball at the correct angle and in the correct way.
7/7/2008 at 3:51pm
Of course poker is a sport.
Poker is a type of card game, so as any other game it’s implies
competition, so it’s form of sport.
6/25/2008 at 2:03pm
i dont think sooooo,but do link me up
6/13/2008 at 8:50am
Would not matter either way, but just in case, loose some weight and try and see the difference. Watch WPT where this aussie guy, that sorta looks like a gaming pc lan guy I know, thought I don’t think he a sporting guy, he works at mines though. But he is quite overweight, and he ended up winning a poker tour challange himself. It’s all about the mind, and that’s what sport people would do anyway.
3/14/2008 at 11:07am
Even if I play quite a bit of poker myself, I would have to say that poker is not a sport. A sport is where you physically activate yourself and no sport could include sitting down for hours and hours.
3/4/2008 at 1:34pm
NOOO ITS NOT!!!!!
10/8/2007 at 6:15am
It is too obvious that poker is not a sport. I could never stress this enough. Lowskank above is all too right, Mental activity and concentration are used in absolutely everything, yet we don’t name toenail cutting and curtain pulling sports do we?
Being able to be in a mental strain, to bluff your opponents etc. Is a life skill, its called lying, being brave and guiltless. All things good to have, but not at all required for sporting.
Simply, a sport is a game requiring physical prowess and activity, poker holds mental strain and perhaps the bigger tournaments tire you out, but that does not at all make it physical, it makes the players tired and uncomfortable. Go to church for that if you like too, but I don’t see many professional churchgoers bragging about their sporting skill.
Poker is not a sport, go to hell all who think the opposite.
9/20/2007 at 2:37am
i agree with the comment above mine and also to the other comment above that one so all you disbelievers take a look at that and just give up. Poker is a sport
8/15/2007 at 3:40am
Lowskank there are plenty of fat guys playing sport- John Daly among other fat golfers, about half the pro dart players, wrestlers etc. etc. Being fat does not stop one being a sportsman