NPR: Sound Off: Poker Is Good for You

Sound Off: Poker Is Good for You

Lawmakers in Washington are considering whether to legalize online poker. Harvard law professor Charles R. Nesson stopped by our show today to tell us why they should. Basically, learning to make bets and read your opponents makes you explosively great or something:

"You put those two together and you have a dynamite poker player, or a dynamite lawyer, or a dynamite businessman," Nesson says. "You have dynamite."

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Laura Conaway

10:16 AM ET | 11-16-2007 | permalink

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Online poker is already legal because the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (UGEIA) does not apply to poker, only sports book betting. This is not common knowledge, but Professor Nesson must surely know it. So what he is doing and why is he doing it?

Sent by Preston Oaded | 1:00 PM ET | 11-21-2007

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