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The Henry Street team, which currently has eight to 10 members, is the only sanctioned high school poker club in the city, he said.
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Example: an information technology manager who had gone on a poker weekend with his old high school buddies.
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Malachi Riddick, now 18 years old, began playing poker with Mr. Engler in middle school as a way to overcome shyness during their counseling sessions, he recalled.
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Garner was the park's manager, after all, and his poker buddies included a retired cop and a school board member.
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Charles Nesson, the Harvard Law School professor who led the team that lost to the Henry Street School students, has become a leading proponent for poker in the classroom.
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It is a vision embraced by the club's founder, Maurice Engler, a former guidance counselor at the school who said he dreams of creating a network of poker teams across the city to akin to what's in place for chess.
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