Teaching poker at schools
Teaching poker at schools may be a very weird concept, mainly because it promotes gambling. It is very unlikely to find a school that teaches or supports gambling (many might think). You'll have poker101 at your freshman year and bluff tactics for your sophomore.
Students of course, are not allowed to gamble inside school premises but how cool would it be if you belong to an institution that allows students or even requires the subject "Poker" to be taught.
Primarily poker is for gambling, on some occasions played for leisure time. Playing at a poker table and stacking cards under school premises are just two different things.
I did a little research of my own and found that there is a university that supports gambling. Actually a professor from that university thinks that playing poker helps students succeed in life. Charles Nesson, one the known professors at Harvard University
Having poker as a subject or part of the curriculum is nowhere near the lines of possibility the way the world is shaping up right now. Well, in most cases.
As a matter of fact, because of this vast success of Poker and how it helped the youth in terms of monetary and their discipline, Poker is now being promoted to be a sport.
Compared to you normal gambling game, there is so much to learn than to earn in poker. A lot of popular players stated that the primary reason of them playing poker is the thrill of competing with others mind. It’s not something that you roll a dice and the player who gets the higher number wins. It’s simple yet very complex.
The tactics you use in this game can be compared on how you live your life. How you take risks and when should you slow down, how you control your emotions and avoid being impulsive, how you discipline yourself for every decision that you make and how to keep your composure in a very ill situation.
Should this be promoted in schools? What I can say is that, it will be a very big help to students. Schools would be able to tell them the consequence of being addicted to this game and how it would help you if you can control that addiction.
It started to be a gambling game but its status right now is more of a tactical board game, like chess which schools educate their students with. Students can play this without bets and it would be the responsibility of the school to make sure that they are playing this game primarily to learn and secondarily to earn.
Poker’s status is just magnified as a gambling game since it is played in casinos and such but if we would consider the skills, the strategies and the discipline that it offers, then we can consider this game as big help not just for students but for the whole community.
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