Poker Class?

[willw9]

I'm going to be a freshman in college next year, so forgive my ignorance.

What class ties in most closely with poker? I'm speaking in terms of an "elective" btw, a minor class I can select in order to explore a secondary interest like cooking or dance or something like that. Do they have straight up Game Theory classes at any universities? If not, what would be a close equivalent?

[Dan.]

I can't imagine any university not having a game theory course in either the econ or math departments. In the case of Northwestern, we have multiple game theory courses in both departments.

[chisness]

too bad the econ one doesn't seem to run

[XxGodJrxX]

Statistics?

[Tiburon]

i'm an HS senior and i'm taking stats & probability, which has a lot of concepts related to poker. We're currently in a unit where we learn about expected value

[Reef]

there's a gambling theory class here in WA but there are tons of pre-reqs

[lennytheduck]

I took a Game Theory class here at Pitt. We talked about poker a fair bit. Unfortunately if you are already a fairly experienced poker player you're not really going to learn anything new. If you're totally unread it will help; I'd probably just read Theory of Poker instead of taking the class.

[armPitt]

I also took a game theory course at Pitt. Which one did you take?

[T50_Omaha8]

I'd recommend probability

before that class I didn't have much of an idea of how to calculate exact probabilties of certain events (flopping a straight, etc) by hand, now I can do it in a flash.

[rakes.a.beach]

I just wanted to say I understood outs/ev before I took any stats/game theory class.

I'm an BizEcon major so I've taken a year of stats, AP stats in HS, and have learned a bit of game theory in my intermediate micro classes. I don't think any of them really helped me understand the game significantly more.