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Message: [QUOTE="PoKeRFoRNiA, post: 1285116, member: 51710"] Why is it that when some people say poker is a sport, they sound like an inactive people who never played any sports in their lives. I played in basketball and tennis team during high school and also bboyed as my hobby when I'm not in school. If someone says poker is a sport, they really sound like a person who never played a real sport in their lives. Because if they really played a sport or done something active in their lives, they wouldn't say poker is a sport. Sports take lot of time and dedication to improve their skills and their level. But poker does NOT take time and dedication to become better once they become veteran and know how to play. For instance, in sports, whoever trained harder to build their skills and perform their optimal level will ALWAYS beat the person who has inferior skills. But same does NOT apply for poker. Just picture yourself playing against Lebron James. Lebron James will ALWAYS beat me on any given day. Same does not apply for poker. Phil Ivey can try all he wants but there will be days when I can crush Phil Ivey. The hell, I can crush him tomorrow if I want to. There's no training required to get better hands or get good cards or control of outcome. But if I were to play Lebron James any day, Lebron James will crush me in basketball anytime I play him. If poker is a sport, then Monopoly board game, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Counter-strike, should be considered a sport too. They're not any different from poker. Monopoly requires as much skill level as poker, and as much luck as poker. No matter how well you manage your money in monopoly, if you keep rolling the dice where you constantly land on your opponents properties where most people dont' land while your opponent luckily dodges EVERY of the properties you've bought, then you'll lose, just like poker, how you'll lose even when you have the best hand every single time. Poker doesn't qualify for mind sport as well. Chess, Backgammon, starcraft require intelligence. Poker doesn't require intelligence. In chess, backgammon, starcraft, if you clearly suck and have no strategies, you'll clearly lose every single game. In poker, you'll lose in a long-run but you can still win tournaments and big pots. If I played against Anand in chess, I'll clearly lose every single game, if lucky, then a stalemate but I highly doubt a stalemate. If I played against any professional starcraft players, I'll lose every single game. But as for poker, NOBODY can beat me every single game. I'll beat anyone, including Phil Ivey. I can beat Phil Ivey at least 25% of the time if we played 100 games(not 100 hands).Anyone can beat Phil Ivey at least 25% of the time. We can all agree that Michael Phelps is the best swimmer in the world and nobody can currently top him. But can we all agree that Jerry Yang was the best poker player of 2007 and nobody could've topped him in that year? Can we agree that Jamie Gold was the best poker player in the world during 2006 and nobody was better than him during his time? Poker has too much luck and variance to be considered a sport. [/QUOTE]

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