/ Editor / 05 November 2007 / Leave a comment

SAYS Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson "I like poker because it's a way of thinking. People who are into poker have a lot of trouble holding on to absolutes. To me, it's a way of thinking liberally and seeing what the world looks like from another person's point of view."

Poker is empathetic.

Neeson is, as mention elsewhere on this site, partnered with the student-led Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society. See seminars such as "Poker: A Game of Truth in Life and Law" and "Law as Rhetorical Poker".

Of course, real poker players may consider their time better spent playing the game then talking about it as means to solving geopolitical relations.

But the poker plays like it. Some of them. "I've been trying to get someone's attention about this for years. Poker is a microcosm for life," says Crandell Addington, founder the World Series of Poker.

As he tells the Boston Globe, in poker, as in life, "the first skill you must develop is discipline. Critical reasoning, money management, strategy building, tactical implementation of strategies - all are useful for entrepreneurs."

Howard Lederer, a poker player who has attended a poker seminar, says: "There's no game that mimics life more."

Perhaps not. Although, in real life buy-ins come with a contract to pay back the capital with interest, and the winner gets to buy their own bracelet...

Tags: Game Of Life, Poker