For informational purposes, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research institution and an American University specialized in the fields of science and technology located in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Boston. This University is internationally recognized for the quality of its teaching. To give you an idea, 72 students at this University have won a prestigious Nobel Prize. Of major contemporary intellectuals like Noam Chomsky are part of teachers!
Today it MIT fact talking about him since that it delivers a new type of course online poker!
Those who saw the movie 21 will probably recall that a group of young people of MIT student in mathematics was attempting to put a program in place to beat casinos at Blackjack. Today's Poker that they attack.
Courses will be given by a former student of the Institute and Dr. It also (of course) is a poker player and he won the Grand Prix de Paris in 2007. His name is Will Ma!
To date, 200 students are enrolled in this course.
The themes that will be covered in this course are the themes dear to poker: psychological, mathematics, tactics and probabilities. Examinations will be held on PokerStars in the section of the Home Games. Parties to the money are not legal in the United States, but the fact to play for money is not. Prizes will be awarded to top students (equipment poker, subscriptions to Cardrunners, etc).
All the results of these Home Games will be studied carefully.
Among the other test that students will have to pass, the creation of a "bot" poker will be part of the lot! Indeed, candidates will be required to create a bot which will be tested in the closed circuit (bots are illegal online poker sites) and the best bot and most effective will see its creators rewarded $ 30,000.
Hope that such courses will show the interest of poker to monsieur and madame tout-le-monde and that they will serve to make it clear to people that poker is more than just a simple game of chance. Poker is a complex game that can develop other important aspects taught in schools. It is through this awareness that passes the legalization of the games to the United States.
The future will tell us if other universities will take this example with, for example, poker lessons given at UQAM, taught by Jonathan Duhamel, Dess, Caz or Tiltman!
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