Poker, close to become an Olympic sport in 2012
The International Association of Mental Sports (IMSA), has announced the aim to accept the International Poker Federation as member in its future meeting, to be held in April.
With this decision, the International Opympic Committee will have to acknowledge poker automatically in its list of games of skill, such as chess or bridge. “It is a great advance for poker to achieve the same status than chess or bridge”, said the President of the International Poker Federation, Anthony Holdem.
Maybe we are before a great advance in the fight to legalize poker in those countries in which it is illegal, because COI recognition may be used as a great argument in any new judicial process, defending it as a game of skill different from any other casino game...
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He can see the cards
By knowing the hole-cards of his opponents, POTRIPPER wins this $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em tournament on Absolute Poker.