Quote Originally Posted by Gau
I watched a few minutes of the WSOP this weekend. Those people work so hard. Sitting at a table, playing cards for 25 hours in two days. Oh my god. :rolleyes2

If that's a sport, and they are athletes, then all of us are athletes. I'm sure most of us have sat and played video games for 25 hours in the span of two days at least once in our lives. And that takes a lot more energy. Moving your fingers and hands. Card players just sit there and play cards..
You're forgetting that the definition of a sport never mentions the word "athlete." But that's the literal sense...and by that, Poker and even videogames are a sport.

The connotative defintion would throw Poker out as a sport, as well as videogames because they require little physical activity, endurance, and agility.