GPSTS

The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) views poker as a game of skill, and uses it as an educational tool. The legitimacy they argue it deserves thus serves as a powerful voice in the fight for legalizing all forms of the game, including online poker.

Founded by Harvard Law Professor and Berkman Center founder Charles Nesson, the GPSTS has four programmatic goals:

• encouraging the continuing development of chapters at universities across the world;
• conducting academic seminars, panel discussions and lectures that explore poker as a means to teach strategic thinking and related public policy issues;
• sponsoring team poker matches between law, business and other professional schools;
• and holding academic conferences to focus on the educational applications of poker strategic thought and related fields.

Poker, by their account, can be used as a powerful teaching tool at all levels of academia and in secondary education.