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PokerMoments is a poker blog, not a political blog, and hence not generally in the business of making political statements. However, as Barack Obama moves past Hillary Clinton in the primaries, and could very well become the Democratic Presidential Nominee for 2008,…
I just read a brief piece about Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama in The New Yorker called Aces by James McManus. It was about Obama’s interest in the game of poker, even though he has been opposed to expanded legalized gambling. McManus points…
About a week ago, I wrote to the presidential campaigns of Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Dennis Kucinich, Fred Thompson and Ron Paul to find out about their views on poker (see here). Specifically, I…
I just contacted the online campaigns of John Edwards, John McCain, Dennis Kucinich, Rudy Giuliani, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, Fred Thompson, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney to find out two things: (1) Whether they play poker (I already know that Barack plays – see…
What do poker and presidents have in common? Presidents Roosevelt (both), Harding, Eisenhower, Truman, Nixon were all fans of the game (see here). Now I have just learned that Obama is a poker player (see here). In fact, he is the…
Recently there was a NYTimes article about a Harvard professor (Charles Nesson) and some of his students that formed a group that shows how poker can be used to teach cognitive skills. The name of their group is the Global Poker Strategic Thinking…
Chip Reese, considered by renowned poker players like Doyle Brunson and Barry Greenstein to be one of the greatest poker players who ever lived, died of a heart attack at the young age of 56. I knew nothing about Chip Reese, that…