Poker 101 Added to Harvard Curriculum
It consistently amazes me how the mainstream media can report a story, but clearly not understand what makes it newsworthy.
If you scan through the first five pages of most newspapers today, you will see an article about the "groundbreaking ideas" of Harvard Law professor, Charles Nesson, who announced that "Poker should be seen as an educational tool that can build strategic thinking skills" at an Internet conference in Singapore yesterday.
And I quote: "It teaches life skills, it teaches numeracy, risk assessment, resource management, and it teaches a lot about psychology... [Poker] teaches you to rely on yourself, assess the situation yourself and make the play," Nesson said.
Nesson is building a "global poker strategic thinking society" that will offer poker workshops to schools and sponsor inter-collegiate poker tournaments. Read More...
If you scan through the first five pages of most newspapers today, you will see an article about the "groundbreaking ideas" of Harvard Law professor, Charles Nesson, who announced that "Poker should be seen as an educational tool that can build strategic thinking skills" at an Internet conference in Singapore yesterday.
And I quote: "It teaches life skills, it teaches numeracy, risk assessment, resource management, and it teaches a lot about psychology... [Poker] teaches you to rely on yourself, assess the situation yourself and make the play," Nesson said.
Nesson is building a "global poker strategic thinking society" that will offer poker workshops to schools and sponsor inter-collegiate poker tournaments. Read More...
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Poker.de Rakes in a $957,937 Pot
PartyPoker purchased Poker.de (.de is the German country code) for $957,937 at DOMAINfest in Amsterdam.
While the price tag may seem steep, PartyPoker regularly pays out between $75-$150 CPA to affiliates per registered sign-up, and it says that Poker.de already generates more than 1,000 uniques per month. Assuming relatively conservative conversion rates, it should recoup its investment over the next five to six years, in terms of dodged affiliate commissions per registered sign-up. Read More...
While the price tag may seem steep, PartyPoker regularly pays out between $75-$150 CPA to affiliates per registered sign-up, and it says that Poker.de already generates more than 1,000 uniques per month. Assuming relatively conservative conversion rates, it should recoup its investment over the next five to six years, in terms of dodged affiliate commissions per registered sign-up. Read More...
Cuban Cigars by FedEx
Our staff visited Argentina this past week. For anyone who is into duck or dove hunting, Cordoba, Argentina cannot be beaten.
After a long day of shooting (two of us shot over a thousand shells in an afternoon!), we smoked some fine Cuban cigars with an American hunter. I asked him where he purchased the cigars, noting that they were of very fine quality for an airport duty-free shop, and he told me that he bought them from StrictlyCuban.com, a Kiwi firm that ships Cubans to Americans. Read More...
After a long day of shooting (two of us shot over a thousand shells in an afternoon!), we smoked some fine Cuban cigars with an American hunter. I asked him where he purchased the cigars, noting that they were of very fine quality for an airport duty-free shop, and he told me that he bought them from StrictlyCuban.com, a Kiwi firm that ships Cubans to Americans. Read More...