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Harvard chooses the best students in the world to come here to learn. We see many of them become intensely interested in playing the game of poker. It behooves us to ask: What is to be learned from playing poker? What is to be feared? Can we mitigate the risks our fears represent.

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Poker Tournaments

Tournaments take place every second at PokerStars. With the world’s biggest online poker room, and the place of the biggest tournaments, PokerStars offer the biggest prizes. PokerStars advertise many different marketing codes which are available for players to get bonuses in their accounts. There are various tournaments options available at PokerStars. Below are a few:

  • Sit and Go: These tournaments do not have a specific start time. The tournament takes place when all seats are filled. Fifty50: The tournament ends when half of the players have been eliminated. Steps: A ‘tiered’ tournament where players can work their way up from the lowest step to the highest step.
  • Multi Table: Players begin with an equal and fixed number of chips. Players at various tables compete for each other’s chips. Once a player runs out of chips, they are removed from the tournament. As players are ‘removed,’ the remaining players are moved in order to keep tables balanced or full. The remaining players end up at the ‘final table,’ where the winner is determined. Shootout: A multi table tournament with a difference. Usually when multi table tournaments are played, players are moved from table to table in order to balance out the number of players at each table. The remaining players end up at the final table. In a shootout, this type of ‘tabling’ is not done. Players remain at their original table until only one player is left standing. The player that wins at their table, moves to another table. This process is continued against other players which also won at their fist table.
  • Satellites: The prize of a satellite tournament is entry into a bigger tournament.
  • Rebuy Tournaments: In a standard tournament, once you run out of chips you are out of the tournament. In a ‘rebuy tournament,’ players have the opportunity to buy extra chips throughout an event.
  • Bounty Tournaments: A special cash prize is awarded to the player who eliminates the ‘bounty.’
  • Deep Stacks: In these tournaments players begin with more chips than usual.

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Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society

  • prepare a comprehensive exposition and analysis of the legal status of poker
  • organize and execute a legal, political and media strategy to legitimate poker, including declaratory judgment actions and legislative initiatives
  • assemble, project and administer a curriculum of online and public media educational offerings relating to strategic thinking in poker and its metaphors in life, history, business, politics, international diplomacy, war and peace
  • organize and administer a fund to support social science, public health and game theoretic research in poker data and poker player population
  • organize intra and inter collegiate poker tournaments for the benefit of education and public service
  • organize conference gatherings in a variety of settings to consider issues and opportunities relating to poker
  • organize the generation and consolidation of a set of norms to guide behavior in the online poker industry and a process of self governance for continued consideration and affirmation of the norms SOBOBA CASINO

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  • organize a board of directors for these initiatives

UNIVERSITY Interest and Concern

We have an opportunity to research a magnificent digital data base opened to us by the online poker industry for purposes of research, to go unfettered where the questions lead, not channeled to any pre-determined result.

  • How great and how serious are the dangers of addiction? Are there signals of addiction that can be discerned and used to warn those at risk?
  • Does Poker encourage alcohol and tobacco abuse?
  • Is Poker women-friendly? What is the history and trajectory of female participation in poker?
  • Poker is a game of skill. Can we prove it beyond a reasonable doubt? Can measures be developed and empirical work structured relevant to the legal regulation of poker?
  • Does poker exploit poor people?
  • Is society losing its best minds to professional poker?
  • how democratic is poker? what is the distribution of players in the world by age by amount of stake they start with by race by religion?
  • how could we prove that playing poker makes you smarter?
  • how many are learning to win, either progressively losing less or progressively winning more
  • how many fail to learn and progressively lose more and more over time
  • what have people learned who have tried and quit the game?
  • should a game played and enjoyed globally online which offers people opportunity to improve intelligence, develop skill, make money, and learn to recognize its metaphors in many parts of life be subjected to prohibitory and regulatory jurisdiction of any one state?
  • should those of us with a global interest in poker consider developing a model charter for online poker environments to which governments would be invited and welcome to assent?

my interest is in developing an open poker university of the internet as an expression of what is best in American democracy. poker is a quintessentially American game. It is an extraordinarily constructive and educational game that people the world over find joy and profit in learning how to play and playing well.

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correspondence

On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Art Pfeiffer wrote:

> Hi Charlie, > > Since we spoke 2 weeks ago, I've had a chance to read the Berkman @10 special report and mull things over and would like to now update you on our current thinking regarding ThwartPoker (TP), The Berkman Center (TBC) and GPSTS.

> We first contacted you in May having learned of your interest in poker as a metaphor for strategic thinking some months earlier from your NPR and Colbert interviews. At the time we saw TP as a natural TBC research project for teaching and improving strategic thinking though in our initial email we mentioned GPSTS. When we spoke you indicated that such a project by TBC would, in effect, raise too many red flags within Harvard because of TP's association with poker and therefore gambling. Our conversation then shifted to discussing a possible affiliation with GPSTS to develop curriculum for PokerStrategy.com to use. However, upon reflection we believe that in working with you to help realize your dream of a real poker / game of skill curriculum, we will need to have access to the resources and research environment that TBC can uniquely provide.

> As you know to properly and effectively study and explore the strategic thinking aspects of TP from all relevant perspectives requires a robust pedagogic and research environment(Oneida casino online casino games,LG washing machines). The right infrastructure needs to be in place; one that has the necessary servers, computing equipment, networked software systems and technical expertise and personnel to support such an endeavor. Given the multifaceted nature of such an undertaking, we want to be able to build on a body of experience acquired from other projects and call upon a broad and diverse faculty to impartially direct, manage and participate in all of the varied activities for developing such curriculum. It is also invaluable to have on hand a large number of talented and highly-motivated students who have the time, energy and interest to pursue the truth wherever that might take them. These are some of the reasons we feel that TBC is the appropriate and necessary venue for this study. Also we are not in a position to finance such an undertaking nor to pursue a grant adequate to the task. We believe the same is true for GPSTS. >

> Let me briefly discuss some of the relevant issues. While you've described TP as poker's conceptual complement it is important to keep in mind that it is a very different game on two fundamental levels, functional and legal. First, introducing choice adds a whole new dimension to poker. Choosing your desired cards and blocking your opponents dramatically alter game play. Second, random dealing, the chance component of poker and a necessary element of gambling is replaced by player card-selection to make TP a game of skill..

> Functionally, choice in TP operates two ways. First with player card selection, the card(s) each player receives are based entirely on the interaction of their choices. No outside force beyond their control intervenes. There are TP forms based only on this feature. It allows players to both improve their hands and block others. It has major strategic thinking ramifications that so far have not been explored in any systematic or comprehensive fashion. Second there are also TP forms that combine betting choices (just like regular poker) with player card selection. Choice is the essence of strategic thinking, that is, exercising one's skill and judgment to consistently make the best choice based on the available information at hand either in competitive situations or in concert with others, or in both. We believe it is not so much poker per se but games of skill and choice, especially under time pressure, that can serve as effective tools for teaching and learning strategic thinking,

> Legally, there is a mobile version of TP called Holdem Poker+ (HPP) that awards prizes and charges a $3 monthly subscription. It was released by Verizon in April 2004 and later by Cingular and other major carriers after careful review by their respective legal departments. I believe Arthur Jonath demoed it for you. By the end of 2006 HPP was rated a top 25 mobile game across all categories by research firm M-Metrics. We have merchant accounts for fee-based tournaments on our website that award prizes. In January 2007, PayPal, after an extensive review by its legal department agreed our tournaments were legal and reinstated our merchant account. This occurred months after Congress passed and the President signed into law the Safe Port act with its poorly-conceived UIGEA rider intended to prevent merchant accounts from processing Internet poker transactions. We also have a written legal opinion from I. Nelson Rose that I believe David sent you. All of these events provide a sound basis for presenting TP to TBC as a non-gambling card game in the same vein as Bridge or Hearts.

> I was intrigued by your August 2007 Singapore presentation on You Tube about your experiences teaching CyberOne Law in the Court of Public Opinion utilizing Second Life. I understand that you will be teaching a second course with the same format this fall. I believe this is the perfect venue for presenting, exploring, experimenting with and analyzing various important aspects of TP to develop useful curriculum for teaching and improving strategic thinking. One approach would be to structure a mock trial course extended to Second life around key TP legal issues such as whether or not TP is a game of skill and as such does not violate federal gambling law and that of most states. Other study topics could include some interesting TP patent issues. Within such a framework various TP forms would be examined and experimented with to determine how strategic thinking is employed and how it relates to TP being a game of skill (Playing TP is perhaps the best measure of its skill-based nature in line with the Kentucky court case Mark Twain wrote about in his 1870 article entitled "Science vs. Luck" pal casino parx casino pechanga casino). This research would serve as the basis for developing appropriate curriculum. There are also game theory and AI aspects of TP that are worthy of interdisciplinary academic enquiry. A possible class assignment could research significant historical events that resulted from major game theory acts such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and analyze their poker-like vs TP-like attributes.

> Charlie, I have only touched lightly on some of the germane issues. There is much more to discuss. We are very excited at the prospect of working with you on such a fascinating project that we believe both of us agree would produce far-reaching useful results. Please consider my comments above as one starting point in an ongoing dialogue. I look forward to more extensive discussions between us to properly and fully explore these matters.

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