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Is Poker a Sport?

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    #32
    kingtubby
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭kingtubby


    Not sure if I'd call it a sport but some people who make big money in the game deserve serious respect for their skills and determination.

    Take for instance Randy "nanonoko" Lew.He plays up to 24 tables of mid to high stakes online poker simultaneously and has made millions of dollars in the process.His winrate is extremely consistent.The amount of concentration and high level thinking to do this is truly amazing and playing for hours at this rate must be both mentally and physically exhausting!


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    #33
    membersonly
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭membersonly


    Poker? I barely know her! :cool:


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    #34
    Deus Ex Machina
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    It's not really a sport. It's more a war. It's a war mate.


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    #35
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users Posts: 19,148 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    How come Boards.ie doesn't have a poker 'home game'?

    Pokerstars.com will facilitate it.

    There used to be many many Boards poker games. The poker forum was THE irish poker forum.

    But then a load of... stuff..... happened and now the whole community have moved on! The poker forum here is all but dead!


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    #36
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    If poker is a sport, its female equivalent.. Bingo, will also have to be a sport


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    #37
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    If poker is a sport, its female equivalent.. Bingo, will also have to be a sport

    Not so.

    Good poker players are skilled at the game. Bad poker players lose their money to them.


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    #38
    Warper
    Registered Users Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    Its akin to Chess - a mental sport. Does all sport have to be physical? Is it better to be able to throw something far than to master someone intellectually? What is sport?


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    #39
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users Posts: 19,148 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Warper wrote: »
    Its akin to Chess - a mental sport. Does all sport have to be physical? Is it better to be able to throw something far than to master someone intellectually? What is sport?

    I'd say sport = Physical

    Game = Mental


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    #40
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Not so.

    Good poker players are skilled at the game. Bad poker players lose their money to them.

    true, there's a little bit of decision power in poker while there's none in bingo. Still, two games with random draws where success depends entirely on what cards or numbers your opponents have.. Enter probability theory (exit me because it drives me nuts)


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    #41
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users Posts: 19,148 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    true, there's a little bit of decision power in poker while there's none in bingo. Still, two games with random draws where success depends entirely on what cards or numbers your opponents have.. Enter probability theory (exit me because it drives me nuts)

    You're entirely under playing how important decision making is. it's the most important thing. It's all about maths, odds, probability, stack sizes, yours and your opponents, position, table image, again yours and your opponents, playing styles, playing against the man mentally..............

    it's a very complex game. it's easy to learn to play yeah, but it takes a LONG TIME to become good at it. Anyone who doesn't understand just what it takes to become a poker player has never tried it. And those who rely on it being a game of just random draws are the ones the good players love to see sitting down at their table ;)

    In fact, this year Poker was added to the World Mind Games. A variation whereby players sitting in particular seats get dealt the same hand as the person in their equivilant seat at different tables (For example: The guy sitting in Seat 8 at Table C will have the same hand as the guy sitting in Seat 8 on Table A). The luck element is removed as players are scored on how better they played the hand than their counter parts.


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    #42
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    The luck element is removed as players are scored on how better they played the hand than their counter parts.

    Luck is removed in traditional poker in the long run too.

    Wait... that seems like a daft game because players will..

    1. be up against different opponents
    2. have different styles TAG v LAG for example
    3. Might have different chip counts or bank rolls
    4. have skill measured in the short term

    :confused:


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    #43
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users Posts: 19,148 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Luck is removed in traditional poker in the long run too.

    Wait... that seems like a daft game because players will..

    1. be up against different opponents
    2. have different styles TAG v LAG for example
    3. Might have different chip counts or bank rolls
    4. have skill measured in the short term

    :confused:

    The captain of the team was the proprietor of the club I play in. He explained it all on the forum for the club here

    Apologies if this doesn't show up withouth registration.


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    #44
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Apologies if this doesn't show up withouth registration.

    Just read the thread and it seems like a strange and complicated concept.

    I'm guessing it didn't take off? Haven't seen it on the TV and I watch a fair bit of poker.


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    #45
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users Posts: 19,148 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Just read the thread and it seems like a strange and complicated concept.

    I'm guessing it didn't take off? Haven't seen it on the TV and I watch a fair bit of poker.

    December was the first time it was tried and the event was non-televised.

    A good way of showing the skill involved though.


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    #46
    kieranfitz
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭kieranfitz


    no, its on the list with golf and darts, Id nearly stick pool/snooker on there aswell


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    #47
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Is on-line Monopoly a game or a sport?


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    #48
    GamesDontSuck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭GamesDontSuck


    I play poker. I enjoy playing poker. Its not a sport tho. Its a game. A mental/thinking game.


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    #49
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    DeVore wrote: »
    Having played against the lady, I can tell you it is highly distracting. :)

    Did you pok'er?


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    #50
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users Posts: 19,148 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Lyle Blue Globe wrote: »
    Did you pok'ere?

    They had some fun........ until the flop!


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    #51
    massdebater
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    Degag wrote: »
    Jennifer Tilly has a huge rack it has to be said.

    She has a top pair alright.


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    #52
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    true, there's a little bit of decision power in poker while there's none in bingo. Still, two games with random draws where success depends entirely on what cards or numbers your opponents have.. Enter probability theory (exit me because it drives me nuts)
    You haven't played much poker have you? Theres a reason the same faces show up regularly at final tables in big tournaments.

    Can't think of many professional bingo players either!


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    #53
    Trevor Kent
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭Trevor Kent


    As the great Doyle Brunnson said "Poker tournaments are a lottery, its just the good players hold more tickets than everyone else"
    So there is chance, luck involved but if your good you will win more often than the average Joe Soap.

    As for it being a sport......na, although it is exhausting mentaly


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