Rolling up for the McGregor show

For many observers it’s simply not a sport and will never be considered one, no matter how much more popular it gets with each passing year. 

Yet it still found its way on to the front pages of the sport sections in Las Vegas all week.

This is not the Ultimate Fight Championships...but poker. The World Series of Poker kicked off here earlier this week with a prize fund that topped $60million. The series is a process of whittling down almost 6,500 competitors to just nine, a process that won’t be completed until November.