WSJ: Harvard Ponders Just What It Takes to Excel at Poker

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Anyone else think the idea of a poker university is BAD? Why do we want to educate poker players?! God no.

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But you know what - when people say that playing cards for a living is like drug dealing (which is what a poker pro claims his father thought of professional poker playing when he told his father he was dropping out of college, according to a bio on him which I read the other day), my response? "I didn't write the rule that money is what makes the world go around. That was Adam Smith or Ayn Rand or maybe Liza Minelli, but money IS an essential fact of life. Just like sex." I'm not sure exactly why running sanitation services or manufacturing arms are considered more respectable than playing poker for a living, but it's true. :shrug: