I have played evey physical sport there is from Ice hockey, football, basketball, baseball to track and field , tennis and the list goes on.. lol... I believe a sport is qualified by competition, mental/physical talent,skill and those intangibles that can't really be measured.. That being said.. The only thing I can compare poker to is chess... in both cases they both lack the basic component of a sport.. physical ability.. unless you call sitting upright for more than a few hours a physical talent....lol But really poker takes an extraordinary amount of calculating all the while lying, acting, decieving and down right trickery.. with that I might believe it to be a sport.. because how many of us have the patience to perform those feats of daring for hours on end?....lol It's a mental sport in that regard... thats my two cents... ahh heck.... .. I'm all in ....LOL
I have very little patience .. thats why I am barely an amature I guess. |