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[QUOTE="DS3, post: 6054308, member: 407846"]
Okay but you now seem to be digging a hole deeper with the Olympics thing.

A reminder, this issue has been raised before (poker at the Olympics) and just because ex-Olympians now play poker does not make it a more sensible idea.

You and some others seem to think poker will become an Olympic sport and I do not, simple, lets see what happens in the longer term.

Finally, regarding sports and the idea of fewer and fewer people taking the games seriously - again you miss the point. The IOC itself adds and then drops games from the Olympics as it sees fit and has done so for over 100 years. They have a variety of reasons for doing so.

I have also said in the past it is notable that those who call for poker to become an Olympic sport have seldom if ever given it any serious thought. Did Neymar for example discuss whether it would be professional or amateur players? Because it surely would not be for money (certainly not allowed) rather than just chips and prestige.

And how would tournaments be staged exactly....would they allow open fields of thousands to suddenly show up and participate? Highly unlikely. So what would be the format? A very limited number of player representing country playing each other? So far when this has been attempted (international competitions) commercially it has enjoyed little success. Further poker in the Olympics advocates never seem to have contemplated the idea of host countries not accepting poker as gambling is prohibited in their country.

Did Neymar discuss any of this?
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