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Article: Competing in Games, not Sports

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  1. grapsfan grapsfan is offline Head Curmudgeon

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    Sep 29th, 2008 (9/29/2008 2:30am)

     
  2. LarsonLarsen LarsonLarsen is offline

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    Sep 29th, 2008 (9/29/2008 1:36pm) in reply to grapsfan

    <p>Not to be nitty, but the word "athelete" comes from Greek and means "one who competes for a prize".</p>
    <p>Poker players atheletes? You decide.</p>
  3. lordxixor101 lordxixor101 is offline

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    Sep 29th, 2008 (9/29/2008 1:49pm) in reply to grapsfan

    <p>Larson, I think your missing the real point of the article here.  It isn't to decide whether poker players are athletes (who cares, you do not need to be in the shape to play professional poker as you do professional sports), but that there is no offtime in poker, you need to be on the ball from the time you approach the table, until you stand up to leave.</p>
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    Sep 29th, 2008 (9/29/2008 2:22pm) in reply to grapsfan

    <p>No, I get the point of the article and it was a great read. I was just tossing that out there, I dont really know why.</p>
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    Sep 29th, 2008 (9/29/2008 2:37pm) in reply to grapsfan

    <p>I made a post about this article.</p>
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    Sep 29th, 2008 (9/29/2008 2:44pm) in reply to grapsfan

    <p>its a game not a sport!</p>
    <p>imo thats obv.</p>
    <p>people who assume its a sport are just trying to feel better about playing it instead of going to the gym.</p>
    <p>however, i do have to agree that it takes a lot of physical efforts to play in a 12 hour multi tble tournament...</p>
     
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    Sep 29th, 2008 (9/29/2008 3:36pm) in reply to grapsfan

    <p>game (noun)  a competitive activity involving skill, chance or endurance ----hum... is this vocab trustworthy, graps? I mean, a game is not always a competitive activity, not at all. Sry, I am not english and this is no level: maybe that vocab is like the bible to you people and what do I know. I think I had same moment as larson's lol wtf forgive me people</p>
     
  8. dgillis dgillis is offline Moderator

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    Sep 29th, 2008 (9/29/2008 8:43pm) in reply to grapsfan

    <p>Once again, great article. Played baseball for most of my life and honestly I noticed that I was doing that a while back, made an adjustment and feel like my game is improving because of it. </p>
     
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