For years, the general population has stressed the importance of higher education over games of chance like poker. However, some people might rethink their position after reading a recent article on the Forbes website entitled “Why Poker Is Better Than Business School.”
The article starts off by stating that the average business school is going to set people back around $100,000, while it only costs poker beginners $3 for a pack of Bicycle cards. Actually your first online poker deposit is going to cost a little more than this, but the point is still well made, and one that Forbes writer Jeff Bercovici thinks people should seriously ponder.
Bercovici also sat down with Peter Alson, who’s the president of the United States Poker Federation, to back this point up in a video interview. One of the best quotes from Bercovici’s chat with Alson was when the U.S.P.F. president said the following when asked if poker was better than business school:
I am not a business man myself, but I know that all the businessmen I know who play poker would say that they actually learned more from playing poker than they did from business school because the game itself plays out like business in terms of how you can read your competitors, and assess their relative strengths and weaknesses – and take advantage of them. All of these things poker teaches in ways that business school can’t.
As an experienced poker player, you’re probably not going to learn much in the way of poker strategy from this video, but it’s definitely good for the general public to see clips like this. After all, some non-poker players have a negative perception of the game, and don’t really think that it can be beaten.
