Harvard supports Poker
The New York Times today has a great piece on the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society and its leaders Professor Nesson and Andrew Woods.
The group, founded at Harvard Law School, is exploring the use of poker in teaching strategic thinking. Lessons learned at the table speak to the same skill sets that power cognitive processing intensive occupations like the law, business, etc.
Poker can be America’s best foot forward in the world. Quintessentially American, invented on Mississippi river boats, spread throughout the frontier, played by presidents, generals, soldiers, diplomats, bankers, lawyers, people of every variety, online poker lets the world play. Poker could offer a far more friendly and engaging American face to the globe in cyberspace than our bombs and guns and legalized torture.
Charles Nesson
Happily, they sound very supportive of legalizing online poker. I hope to see them at the Full Tilt because at least one of them sounded like a total fish…for now. Check out their YouTube’d first meeting below.
