GPSTS Lecture and Discussion Series
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We seek to create a course that demonstrates two things primarily: (1) the value of poker in teaching strategic thinking for use beyond the card table, in business, law and life; and (2) the value for education, both face to face and online, of the huge interest in poker, not only among university students, but also among prospective students in the larger population beyond.
In our course we will study poker as history, game theory, entertainment, education and law. We will read great books, watch great films, and play some great poker.
Ours is an adventure in teaching and learning in cyberspace. Join us.
Imagine Classrooms
on the net consisting of different pst's each able to watch a video, in synch or a-synch, and relate to each other and to us through QuestionTool, SecondLife, FullTilt, YouTube, Facebook
build poker university as a demonstration in integrated face to face and distance education
execute an algorithm of interrelated spaces
smooth out the production steps and their interfaces with each other
- record digital video
- onto a portable hard drive
- open in final cut pro and edit
- upload to a server on the net
- link to and from our virtual environment classrooms
Poker Teaches
- lecture: Strategic Thinking: Introduction to Poker as a Strategic Game
- groups
- learn to play one card war
- form into groups of eight agreed upon a time to play and talk
- register and obtain a password for your group
- learn to play one card war
Strategy in One Card War
- charlie and andrew talk lessons of one card war
- Andrew leads discussion driven by the question tool
- how to think about
- chips
- position
- strength
- how to think about
- the idea of strategy
Play Poker
Howard Lederer, Brandon Adams and Andrew Woods
- analyze the final hand in The Cincinnati Kid: What was the kid's mistake?
- analyze in the final hand in Rounders: What hand can Teddy possibly have been playing? What was his tell?
- a lesson from the professor- - Howard Lederer: Poker is a Strategic Betting Game
- listen to:
- read Chris Furgeson's Strategy
- Play it on FullTilt
History of the Growth of Tournament Texas Hold'em
Before ONLINE
- charlie talks with Crandell Addington and Doyle Brunson to tell the history of hold'em
- charlie talks with Jeffrey Pollack and Jim McManus about the history of the World Series of Poker
After ONLINE
- charlie talks with Mike Sexton to tell The PartyGaming Story: Part I - Before UIGEA
Law's False Criminalization of Poker
- Mohammad's Wisdom: Mohammad's Word
- Common Law: Does Skill Predominate Chance
- Meaning of the Legal Standard
- Addictions to Games of Skill and Games of Chance
- The Law of Harvard
- The Law of Massachusetts
- Lottery Statute
- Interpretation by courts
- Interpretation by the Massachusetts Attorney General
- Proposed Criminalization
- Lottery Statute
- The Law of the USA: There is No Federal Law against Online Poker
- Wire Act
- Interpretation by Federal Courts
- Interpretation by Attorneys General
- UIGEA
- Wire Act
- The Law of Nations
- Charmin' Betsy
- WTO
- charlie talks to tbd to tell The PartyGaming Story: Part II - UIGEA and After
Poker as Theory
Programming Algorithms, and Computer Coding
- Flatland, Edwin Abbott (to loosen your ability to see in different dimension)
- Flatland, Edwin Abbott (to loosen your ability to see in different dimension)
Poker as Language, Metaphor, and Preparation for Business, Law and Life
- Strategy in Poker, Business & War by John McDonald
- Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation ?, (Chap.1)
- Grossman, New Tack Wins Prisoners Dilemma
- Francis Beer, Games and Metaphors
- Baird, Game Theory and Law (Chap.1)
- Apostolico, Poker Strategies for a Winning Edge in Business
- Lubet, Lawyers' Poker
- Schreiber, Poker as Life
- articulate metaphors for each of the parameters of the Henstra Zwan program drawn from business, law and love
Poker as a Strategy for Education
Annie Duke:
I would love to teach such a class. I would talk about poker as a tool for teaching proper decision making under conditions of uncertainty.
Some of the main points would be:
1) Understanding the relationships between decisions and outcomes, that they are not one to one where good decision= good outcome and bad decision=bad outcome. That under the kind of decision making problem poker presents the decision must be evaluated somewhat independently of the outcome…that a bad outcome does not always mean a mistake and vice versa. This applies well to understanding things like drug use or drunk driving, for example.
2) Poker as the paradigm for teaching strategies geared toward making decisions easier for ourselves going down the road. Understanding when decisions will be too difficult so we choose to opt out by a fold or an all-in. Understanding when those moves are ok. Understanding strength of position in relation to whether we must offer first or second in a negotiation. Etc.
3) poker as the ideal game for understanding good decision making strategies because of the quick feedback loop
4) Sunk Cost bias as it relates to poker and beyond.
Poker as a Strategy for a Developing Nation
in development for Jamaica
