haha.. and this is where the argument generally leads. It's skill based and competitive, but there's no real physical activity?!
when i get a bad beat i punch the table, does that count? poker tournaments require a lot of mental endurance, that's physically demanding if you ask me.
Too right! Anyways, we should be happy with bad beats dcristo.. they tell us that we played right and someone else played it wrong.
It will only count as sport when beating and punching each other involved, if not it just a game with mind skill...
Poker is gambling for some, a part time investment for others, and a full time job for millions of people worldwide. If poker is just gambling, then millions of people are professionally lucky? People that make comments like are grossly uneducated on the subject.
It's not gambling for everyone though. In one sense yeah you're wagering money on an uncertain outcome - like with a stock market or any other uncertainty. But you don't have to be too switched on with maths and general knowledge to put the edge back in your favour. You're not playing against a house with fixed odds. You play poker against other players, and set your own odds. The better players will always win. Some players are so consistent they can roughly work out what they will eanr each week/month/year. Like I said, millions of professional players aren't professionally lucky. Gambling assumes that you're more likely to lose in the long run, not make a living