Tuesday 30th October 2007 Kids to learn poker skills in school
Poker queen Annie Duke has signed up to the board of a developmental non-profit organisation, hoping to teach children using lessons from the game of poker.
The Decision Education Fund in Palo Alto was formed to try to help children to make more productive decisions in their lives.
Where Annie Duke fits in, the poker pro herself explained to the San Hose Mercury: "Poker is this incredible game of skill that really is the ultimate decision-making problem.
"Lots of people frame [poker] as a math or a probability problem," she said. "But I really do frame it as a decision-making problem. I talk about different alternatives."
Working in schools at a national and local level, Duke will partner the foundation and help them to solve problems using skills learned from poker.
Duke is a well-versed tutor, having played professionally since 1994 and won $2 million in the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions.
The poker pro is also a mother of four children aged from five to 12, and she explained that she uses poker to help decide how to discipline and teach them.
"When my children do something wrong, we don't talk about how 'you shouldn't do that because I'll punish you.' We'll talk about 'what were your other alternatives?'," she told the newspaper.
Students at the schools involved in the programme seem enthusiastic about the cool rating of saying they are allowed to play poker in school.
Source: Direct News
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