Harvard lawyer wants to legitimize poker
31 Oct 2007
AMBRIDGE, Mass. -- As reported by the Associated Press: "A Harvard Law School professor best known for defending the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and for helping parents sue chemical companies in a case popularized by the film "A Civil Action" has a new cause: poker.
"Charles Nesson wants governments to relax restrictions on poker players. He has formed the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society with some of his students to promote poker as a fun learning tool and to redefine it as a game of skill, rather than a game of chance.
"'I'd like to legitimate poker as an educational instrument,' Nesson said. 'It's a great way to learn and practice the skills of seeing what things look like from another person's point of view.'
"Locally, Nesson wants to loosen Massachusetts' limits on small-scale poker tournaments..."
Harvard lawyer wants to legitimize poker
is republished from CasinoCityTimes.com.