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Message: [QUOTE="PoKeRFoRNiA, post: 1284278, member: 51710"] So tell me, if you were to play against any NBA player 100 games of 21, you'll be able to beat him once? Poker is NOT a sport. People don't even consider my hobby a sport. My hobby is breakdancing. If it's something where anyone (fat, lazy, disabled, unintelligent all at the same time) can do and beat any professionals, then it's not a sport. Not anybody can join Professional leagues of sports, such as NBA, NFL, MLB, World Champion of Chess. But anybody including my 58-year-old mother who stays home all day as a house wife can enter World Series of Poker and beat any professional poker player on any given day while she won't stand a slim chance against professional sports player such as Ichiro Suzuki, Hines Ward, Lebron James, etc. I can teach my mother how to play poker for 1 month and she will beat anyone anyday due to variance in poker. Sure, she'll get eaten up by Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu but that's during LONG-TERM period if they play 50,000 hands. My mom can still crush them anyday on days where she gets good run of cards. But 1 month of training isn't even close enough to beat any professional sports player. Even if I were to teach my mother how to play basketball, she won't even be close to beating any NBA player, not even Korean minor league basketball players(prolly worst professional basketball players in the world). I honestly think poker is overrated to be considered a sport. If poker is a sport, then you might as well accept monopoly board game, tetris, dance dance revolution, rock-paper-scissors, yo-yo, counter-strike, stock market as sports too. Poker is a game of skills, but not a sport. I've trained physically for years in basketball and bboying and when bboying can't be considered as a sport due to its roots and the category it goes under, which is dance, I'll never consider poker a sport. I got love for poker since I relate lot of things in reality to poker, but poker is not a sport. There is a difference between a GAME and a SPORT. Poker is a game of skills but it's not a sport. If I were to write any sports achievements or activities I've done in college applications or job applications, I will gladly write about how I was in varsity basketball and tennis teams. But I will not be able to mention local casino's biggest multi-table tournament ranking. If poker is a sport, I would tell my student to write their poker accomplishments under sports activities/achievements in college application. [/QUOTE]

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