Focando-se na análise dos discursos de um jogador brasileiro, em paralelo aos de uma jogadora americana, busca-se entender, primeiro, como 👍 a noção de "esporte" é construída para abarcar e qualificar o poker profissional, distanciando-o dos jogos de azar; segundo, como 👍 a noção de "profissão" se enquadra como causa e consequência do movimento de "esportivização" do poker; e, terceiro, como a 👍 categoria "perícia" desenvolve-se para caracterizar não apenas o jogo-esporte-em si, mas também a identidade do jogador, em um movimento classificatório 👍 cíclico.

Focusing on the analysis of a Brazilian player´s discourses, in parallel with the ones of an American player, the aim 👍 is to understand, firstly, how the notion of " sport " is developed to embody and qualify professional poker, distancing 👍 it from games of chance; secondly, how the notion of " profession " is framed as cause and consequence of 👍 the movement of poker´s sportivization; and thirdly how the category " expertise " is drawn up to characterize no only 👍 the game – sport – itself, but also the player´s identity, in a classificatory cyclic movement.

Abstract: This study seeks to 👍 discover the logical process that professional and semiprofessional players build up in order to professionalize their poker player careers and 👍 to classify the game as a sport, counterposed to games of chance.

Focusing on the analysis of a Brazilian player´s discourses, 👍 in parallel with the ones of an American player, the aim is to understand, firstly, how the notion of " 👍 sport " is developed to embody and qualify professional poker, distancing it from games of chance; secondly, how the notion 👍 of " profession " is framed as cause and consequence of the movement of poker´s sportivization; and thirdly how the 👍 category " expertise " is drawn up to characterize no only the game – sport – itself, but also the 👍 player´s identity, in a classificatory cyclic movement.