Charles Nesson

From Wikiality

January 24, 2008

• wants to make on-line poker legal for everyone
• wants to make it a teaching tool
• teaches law at Harvard
• believes on-line poker is better than sitting around a table with your friends and a deli tray
  • plays from his bedroom
• may have a gambling problem
• says poker is a game of skill
  • which is denial about his gambling problem
• why not chess?
  • poker is quintessential American game
    • born on the Mississippi, the chocolate highway
• betting is useful
  • uses chips, but not money in his classroom
• tuition for his Poker University on-line
  • don't google "poker on-line"
• wants to teach strategy
  • von Neumann
  • Nash
• propositioned Dr. Colbert, who plays
• wants to have the presidential candidates play poker on-line