This April, the International Federation of Poker will be accepted as an esteemed member of the International Mind Sports Association. This means the game of poker will be recognized as a “sport” by the International Olympic Committee, included amongst other games of skill such as chess or Go. Other mind sports nominees this year include Go Fish, Fifty-Two Pickup, War, and Up the River, Down the River.

The good from this recognition comes in the form of poker being deemed a game of skill by a world-renowned organization, an argument which can be heralded across all the courtroom debates of luck versus skill for legislation purposes. The bad will be the pasty, unkempt, anemic internet players coming out from behind their keyboards thinking they’re going to win Olympic gold for picking off a river bluff, standing up to raise their hands like a true champion, only to find their legs muscles have atrophied from playing sit-and-gos for the past month and their chubby bodies come crashing to the ground like a drunken chip stack.

This doesn’t mean that one day they’ll be testing players for doping if it’s been noticed in World Series of Poker broadcasts they’ve been tossing larger stacks into pots with considerable less effort on their hands and wrists. You also won’t find player doing wind sprints while holding the poker hand rankings card. As ludicrous as it is to even slightly mix or confuse the realm of poker with athleticism, after all the discord brought between American internet players and their elected officials from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, anything that pleads the case in our favor is welcome with open arms.