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Partnership places GPSTS at the cutting edge of strategic gaming as a rehabilitation tool under difficult conditions.

The GPSTS has always believed that poker specifically, and strategic gaming generally, are useful as teaching tools, and that under the right conditions, strategic games can help change lives. This summer, GPSTS founder and president Charles Nesson decided to put that idea to the test, and in the most unlikely of places: the Tower Street Adult Correctional Facility in Kingston, Jamaica. By partnering with Students Expressing Truth, Jamaica's most successful and innovative charitable reform organization, the GPSTS is making it its mission to show that strategic gaming not only teaches, but heals.

From The Harvard Crimson:

HLS To Go "All In" Versus Yale

Published On Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:19 AM
By CHELSEA L. SHOVER
Contributing Writer

On the eve of Nov. 17, while much of the Harvard community is gearing up for "The Game" against Yale, a handful of law school students will be prepping to play a very different sort of game against the same rival.

The public hearing at the State House on the Massachusetts Casino Expansion bill was packed — standing room only — but GPSTS founder and president Charlie Nesson stayed around until 9:30 PM to speak out in opposition to the bill, which will criminalize online poker playing if passed.

Nesson was also party to an interesting exchange with Deval Patrick, who was first to testify at the hearing.

You can read his testimony after the jump.

At 8:30 this morning, a contingent of supporters from the Harvard Law School chapter of the GPSTS joined members of the Massachusetts Poker Players' Alliance at a rally in front of the State House to protest Governor Deval Patrick's casino bill. Charlie Nesson, founder and president of the GPSTS, addressed the crowd about the dangers of criminalizing online poker, which a provision in section 15 of the bill would make punishable by fines of up to $25,000 — and two years' imprisonment.

(Blog entry by Josh Goldstein, found here.)

Don't worry if you missed our recent Poker, Law and Diplomacy event at Fletcher. (Editor - see flyer for this event: Tufts University GPSTS Event)

Invitation to the Poker Players Alliance Policy Forum
October 24, 2007 10:00 am–11:00 am in Rayburn 2200

hold'em poker
the story told by cradell addington of its start in texas
the formation and travels of the texas road gang
gathering in vegas
start of tournament play

Click To Play

we exist
now we move

As a quick update on the GPSTS Activities coming up:

Oct. 1 — HLS PSTS officially approved by student government as official Harvard Law organization. Initial launch with 62 members.

Oct. 15 — GPSTS, in association with the HLS PSTS and Professor Charles Nesson hosts Howard Lederer and Crandall Addington to discuss life lessons taught by poker in a session called Poker: A Game of Truth in Life and Law at Harvard Law School. First of discussion series of poker talks.

Focus on trade journals in both general disciplines e.g., American Lawyer; WIRED. Rather than issue press release, send private letter to the editors inviting them to send someone to sit in. Also write to legal project in the think tank world, such as Overlawyered.com at Manhattan Institute, Center for Constituional Rights etc. Invite them to send fellows/associates to the class. They'll write about in their own publications and blogs.

exciting there last night, going around the room, listening to players we've got, sitting at round tables, just the right size for kids to meet and talk.

this is my evidence. this is why harvard law school is a good place to be. chet's video of the event now to go to rochelle, meet me at berkman at ten and we'll go to the editing deck, andrew a star among stars, we are producing, then to elizabeth and her team dean and paul irish, and bang, we are up on the net. i showed them our chip set, cc on the back of our global strategic thinking society. gpsts.org

dinner after with anne peretz and fern.