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Harvard Endorses Gambling Edit
"Poker Teaches Survival Skills"


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Harvard Endorses Gambling -
"Poker Teaches Survival Skills"
Published: Sep 19, 07
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Arizona State University students looking for poker action have found their fix online and in private tournaments. In Pennsylvania, the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity holds an annual March Madness tournament as well as regular private events. No one seems worried that the risky behavior is leading to addiction.

There is no proactive discouragement to student gambling; in fact, according to Harvard University Professor, Charles Nesson, “Poker’s history in America dates back to the mid-1800’s, but has experienced a recent spike in popularity due to the televising of tournaments,” Poker News quoted. 

“It is a hobby to many, a job to some and it can be, in the proper context, an excellent learning tool to teach children a number of different skills. Though just a game, poker teaches survival skills and encourages the development of good instincts. A good poker player learns to size up the competition quickly and decide where potential risks lie.”

Maybe this will inspire someone to write, “Parents Anti-Texas Hold’em Strategy For Dummies.”

At the State of Play Conference, held in Singapore in August 2007, the newly formed Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society demonstrated the benefits of teaching poker to children at a local school. The Society now takes this initiative to schools in Jamaica and Boston, Massachusetts. In each of these places the Society will conduct a poker teaching session that will engage students and teach them a wide array of skills in an innovative and interesting way. The Society will also show parents and teachers how to teach poker to young people so that they can be involved in the process with the kids. (pokernews)

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