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Make poker an Olympic sport, beg players

By Ellie Tzortzi

Athens - Poker aficionados claim their sport is getting a raw deal from the Olympics and are campaigning for a place at the table at the Athens Games.

A group calling itself "Poker in Athens" have said they will not take the exclusion sitting down and have upped the stakes with an online petition calling the bluff of the sporting world.

The group's website (www.pokerinathens.org) says they are "passionately dedicated to bringing poker to the 2004 Games," and demands that poker be given the respect shown to games like chess and bridge.

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