Poker has a certain, perhaps nefarious, reputation. But The United States Poker Federation (USPF) and the United States Mind Sports Association are hoping to change that by giving people with
casino tans and players of other strategy-based games some pro-sports respect, along the lines of, say, the U.S. Golf Association and FIFA.
"The main objective is to promote poker as a game of
skill, a mind-sport, and to take it away from just being associated with casinos and gambling," said Peter Alson, president of the USPF.
"We are trying to reframe the game and reposition
it as not a gambling game but a game of skill," said Alson. "I think if we can do that, and I think we can, then poker will find a new audience." None other than the H-bomb (Harvard, of course)
is lending its academic heft to the proposition. Next: Casinos at Harvard's rathskeller?
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