Charles Nesson

January 24, 2008


 * wants to make on-line poker legal for everyone
 * wants to make it a teaching tool
 * teaches law at Harvard
 * believes on-line poker is better than sitting around a table with your friends and a deli tray
 * plays from his bedroom
 * may have a gambling problem
 * says poker is a game of skill
 * which is denial about his gambling problem
 * why not chess?
 * poker is quintessential American game
 * born on the Mississippi, the chocolate highway
 * betting is useful
 * uses chips, but not money in his classroom
 * tuition for his Poker University on-line
 * don't google "poker on-line"
 * wants to teach strategy
 * von Neumann
 * Nash
 * propositioned Dr. Colbert, who plays
 * wants to have the presidential candidates play poker on-line