POKER TEACHES
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POKER TEACHES strategic thinking in work and play, life and law
initial offerings by professors nesson and lederer
with Andrew Woods and Kevin Wallen, Annie Duke, Brandon Adams, Ken Stalter
participation invited by pst societies around the world (formed or in formation)
accompanied by bilateral pst discussion and play ( e.g., cambridge v. cambridge)
culminating in face to face invitational tournament and conference
we study poker as history, game theory, entertainment, education and law
we read great books, watch great films, and play great poker
Ours is an adventure in teaching and learning in cyberspace. Join us.
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- thanks to my daughter rebecca for her inspiration and guidance in all dimensions of this enterprise. thanks to my daughter leila believing in my aspiration. thanks to fern, my partner in all things.
We seek to create a course that demonstrates (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 good books, watch and talk about good films, and learn to play good poker in the various poker games of life.
Learning to be Stupid, Learning to be Smart
where are you along the path of learning
- Flatland, Edwin Abbott (to loosen your ability to see in different dimension - what seems complicated in one dimension may be simple when seen from another)
- buy a journal book, find a pen you like to write with, keep a journal for this course, or if you choose, keep a digital journal
- in your journal - what is your passion, what is the question driving your life
- learned stupidity and the plight of public education
- integrated media education offers freedom from geo-location
Beginning Poker -- Strategy in One Card War
- charlie and andrew teach and 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
We will tell the story of poker.
- the challenge of learning
- the stages of learning
Poker as a classic framework for contests of courage and intelligence.
- 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
- read and talk about
- watch and talk about
- feedback
Presidential Poker
with Jim McManus:
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
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
Jamaica
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
