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University class' charity poker tournament

2007-11-28 11:42:09

A charity poker tournament is being held this weekend by the University of South Dakota's poker class, it has been reported.

The annual event is the culmination of a semester-long course entitled Poker and the Meaning of Life, according to Poker News.

Charity SeSac will benefit from the tournament, which will be held at Pro's Bar and Grill in Vermillion.

Entry is free although students would like contestants to donate $5.

The university course, which consists of two weekly seminars, examines how poker can relate to real life and almost act as a metaphor for it.

It is run by Steven Ward and Doug Peterson who started it three years ago. It seems quite unusual that such a class is run at a college where there is not even a poker club.

Famous alumni from South Dakota's university include Noble prize-winning physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence and TV host Pat O'Brien.