Playing at www.pacificpoker.com recently I heard someone arguing the point that poker should be considered a sport, because sports used to be considered what they are, due to the physical demands they have upon the body, but this perception of sport has changed somewhat in more recent years, take darts for example, there certainly isn’t any physical fitness required as it’s essentially just a game of skill in propelling a dart accurately, but still darts is considered a sport.

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So should people campaign for pokers recognition as a sport? The fact is that some people such as my friend that I mentioned, already do in a way, but I don’t think that players who feel that way about the game necessarily have a great belief in poker being as much a sport as say, tennis, or athletics, they merely want poker to have that same prestige and renown as an important stage, where people who have trained themselves to a level of excellence in a pastime, can prove their skill and have it recognised on a wider scale.

Personally that sentiment of wanting professional poker players to be held in the same high regard as athletes I feel, is a just one, and I would love to see the game given the same prestige as such sports, but I feel it’s unlikely seeing that physical greatness is a visible and tangible thing, where as psychological greatness cannot been viewed with such excitement, even though a player may have made an amazing read or play during a pacificpoker.com game, it simply isn’t exciting for someone to watch who knows nothing of the game.

For this reason I feel that poker willl never be seen in the same light as other great sports, and although I mourn that fact, I really shouldn’t. Poker isn’t a sport I don’t think, it’s a game, but it’s the greatest game in the world, and as an online poker player I’ll settle for that.

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