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I guess I'd be cheating for saying I looked up the definition while Ant and I had that discussion

In a nutshell, though, a sport is a competition with fair play, and a game can be "anything goes" - Take Poker or Russian Roulette for example.

Russian roulette, isn't fair-play, because here you really want your opponent to be killed, and looser will always die.

....That was my point. I'll make it clearer then:

Sport - Fair Competition

Game - "anything goes" (i.e. Poker/Russian Roulette)

What about card *games*?
And all games are about fair competition really, you shouldn't cheat at them, and sport players still really want to win. If I understood what you meant correctly, anyway.

Vurn wrote:What about card *games*?
And all games are about fair competition really, you shouldn't cheat at them, and sport players still really want to win. If I understood what you meant correctly, anyway.

My point right there: Card Games are easy to cheat at, especially if you're playing against a new player. Poker may be shown on ESPN just because it's difficult to cheat with a hundred cameras around you.

Just because you shouldn't cheat doesn't mean you can't.

Sports, same thing could be said about cheating, but if you're playing a sport, you probably know the rules beforehand - It's difficult to cheat at Chess or Soccer (for example) in that aspect.

But bluff is kind of cheating, but in poker you do it almost always.
Many card games (i.e. bambuko, cygan) consist of cheating.

I don't consider bluffing "cheating," it's not like you took the card out of the deck and made the hand you need to win - You just keep betting more at your own risk.

I was playing poker with guys from my school like a month ago, and one girl was playing with us. We have a talk about rules before, and she said "I want bluff, I don't want to cheat", we laughed her up.
True gentlemen indeed.

Rooster5man wrote:I guess I'd be cheating for saying I looked up the definition while Ant and I had that discussion

Well looking it up kind of ruins the point, because I wanted to know the ideas *you guys specifically* have about these things.

Well, it sort of helped I got the definitions because I never really considered "game" and "sport" to be in the same category after learning Chess is considered "more than a game" (i.e. Sport.)