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Title: The Olympics is a step closer...... Post by: TightEnd on February 25, 2010, 11:36:42 AM Press release and news articles......
The International Federation of Poker will be accepted as a member by the International Mind Sports Association in April. What this means is that the International Olympic Committee will add poker to a list of games including chess and Go - skill games. Don't get too excited - it's not going to be a new part of the decathlon in the Olympic games (but how awesome would that be?) however it will be a hefty blow to the argument in US courts that poker is a game of luck. "Poker is not like other casino games," says noted poker author and IFP head honcho Anthony Holden. "It's a social game where people are playing against each other, not the house, and a game where skill plays a bigger role than luck. There are 120 to 150 million poker players in the world and we deserve this recognition." Title: Re: The Olympics is a step closer...... Post by: kinboshi on February 25, 2010, 12:00:08 PM It's already part of the Mind Sports Olympiad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Sports_Organisation (I once beat Demis Hassabis - 5 times Pentamind champ - in a chess game) Title: Re: The Olympics is a step closer...... Post by: TheChipPrince on February 25, 2010, 12:08:19 PM (I once beat Demis Hassabis - 5 times Pentamind champ - in a chess game) Was he doing 4 other things at the time? |