Poker 101 Added to Harvard Curriculum
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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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