There are some very sharp minds committed to the game of poker, and none more so than those involved in a new society that has been formed in the US.

Charles Nesson, a Law School Professor at Harvard, one of the world’s premier seats of learning, has formed the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society. The Society views poker as a game of skill that can be used as a teaching tool at all levels of academia and in secondary education.

The concept is to use poker to teach basic life skills such as strategic thinking, geopolitical analysis, risk assessment, and resource management.

Nesson and the GPSTS hope to create an open online poker community that will draw the brightest minds together, both within and outside of the conventional university setting, to promote open education and Internet democracy.