Poker Course at College

[PotLuckPete]

Hello, I'm an adjunct professor in the Continuing Education department at one of our local college. I'm concerning teaching in the continuing education department and therefore have the opportunity to introduce new courses fairly quickly without the need for exhausting committee reviews.

I was seriously considering putting together a series of poker gaming theory courses over the next 6 months. There are a number of instructors here that would be interested in teaching these classes.

Does anyone know of any recognized Universities that are using poker as way to either teach mathematics or gaming theory? I want to have as much ammunition as possible, espcially when "gambling" comes up.

[NewUser2006]

The University of Michigan has (or used to have) a course about Gambling Probability in the Stats department.

STATS 125 - Games, Gambling and Coincidences

Taught by Professor Robert W Keener in Winter 2005

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detai...rray=w_05_1520

[SamIAm]

I understood that UNLV had a "Mathematics of Gambling" category, too. I imagine it's more prob & stats than game theory.
-Sam

[Copernicus]

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Hello, I'm an adjunct professor in the Continuing Education department at one of our local college. I'm concerning teaching in the continuing education department and therefore have the opportunity to introduce new courses fairly quickly without the need for exhausting committee reviews.

I was seriously considering putting together a series of poker gaming theory courses over the next 6 months. There are a number of instructors here that would be interested in teaching these classes.

Does anyone know of any recognized Universities that are using poker as way to either teach mathematics or gaming theory? I want to have as much ammunition as possible, espcially when "gambling" comes up.

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I believe Brown has a math or IT course based on poker.

[JackStrap]

The teacher of this class was the wizard of odd himself (http://wizardofodds.com/) Micheal Shaklefort

[SamIAm]

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The teacher of this class was the wizard of odd himself (http://wizardofodds.com/) Micheal Shaklefort

[/ QUOTE ]Weird; I've never seen the Wizard do any real math, just a bunch of statistics and modeling. (The dude's an actuary; it's not his fault. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img])

Did you take the class? What did it cover?
-Sam

[Copernicus]

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The teacher of this class was the wizard of odd himself (http://wizardofodds.com/) Micheal Shaklefort

[/ QUOTE ]Weird; I've never seen the Wizard do any real math, just a bunch of statistics and modeling. (The dude's an actuary; it's not his fault. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img])

Did you take the class? What did it cover?
-Sam

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An actuary who went into academia? Definitely his fault.

[toms2866]

The Univ of Alberta uses poker (and other games) as a vehicle for teaching math and AI.

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/

[econophile]

Jonah Gelbach at University of Maryland teaches a course on the economics of gambling.

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