Poker players can take advantage of free courses to become card sharks
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently announced that two poker courses have been added to the MIT Open Learning program. The courses are offered for free and are open to the public. Anyone looking to improve their poker skills and gain additional insight into the game can take one of the country’s top institution’s online courses.
Options for this year’s course include “Poker Theory and Analytics” and “How To Win At Texas Hold’em Poker.” The former has been offered at MIT for several years and takes the game beyond the tables, focusing on the game’s key elements and combining them in connection to investment management and trading.
Besides improving poker skills and tournament strategy, students will “develop the basic foundation for decision-making in poker.” “Homework” for the course also includes tournament play.
Business professor WIll Ma teaches “How To Win At Texas Hold’em Poker” and has several admirable poker skins on the wall, including over $680,000 in live tournament winnings. The coursework examines the mathematics behind the game, variance, preflop ranges and more. Students will also compete in an online poker league.
The MIT Open Learning program gives educational opportunities for lifelong learners worldwide, with courses containing study materials, notes, lecture videos and more. Additional courses recently promoted include subjects like thermodynamics, classical music and learning conversational Italian.
“The mission of Open Learning is to share knowledge,” declared MIT Vice President for Open Learning Vijay Sarma. “We want to make sure that learning isn’t this thing we keep, but people can take and do something with it – for their lives, for their enjoyment, for the fulfillment of their ambitions, their dreams.”
