Will gambling make it as a sport?

In recent years there has been an undoubted explosion in the number of people playing poker all round the world. For concrete proof of this, one only has to look at the record numbers who attended last year's World Series of Poker in Las Vegas as well as the growing popularity of online poker in countries where it is permitted.

In fact the game has become so popular that there have even been suggestions that it should be classified as a sport. What's more, seven years ago poker was <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/poker-accepted-mind-sport/" target="_blank">accepted as a mind sport</a> by the International Mind Sports Association, and this decision has been officially ratified by Brazil. Meanwhile in China the Beijing Municipal Bureau of . . .