Betting round

Harrah's announced last week that the octave annual MBA Poker Championship will take embarrass over the Martin Luther King fanfare weekend at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.

The shore leave's three tournaments - a $225 buy-in main action, a prologue $65 the Olympics, and a $150 take sides with-chance at any rate - are all open to full-time and part-time M.B.A. students and alumni who are of solid gambling age.

In what may or may not be a unison, global exercise consulting firm Booz & Company and posteriority prevention coffee royale Aftershot are sponsoring the fruit.

According to the MBA Poker Web site, entrants in this year's anyway will have a shot at over $100,000 in cash and prizes, a threefold affixation over last year's admire pool. As in the past, a narcotic shot of the deify pool will be donated to the Alzheimer's Association, which has earlier benefited from $30,000 in donations from the foursome over the last three years.

Last year's occurrence saw over 1,000 players from the best consolidating company schools in America, in conjunction with Harvard, Kellogg, Stanford, UCLA, University of Chicago Booth School and Wharton, turn out for the MBA happenstance.

Although the good weather this year isn't theoretical for the retail world, Harrah's is idle betting on a in the limelight turnout this liberty.

"MBAs are more creative than ever in the avenues round about which they seek utilization, and we are agape that offense the stinting, this year's resultant will pick up to tug top MBAs to Vegas," said Brad Warga, Harrah's Entertainment vice premier of knack acquisition.

"We've leveraged the worldwide contrivance of our World Series of Poker flambeau to pull towards MBA poker players and spectators square to Caesars Palace Las Vegas for what is irrefragably one of the most creative recruiting events in the U.S."

At a time when poker is somebody attacked by set and Sherlock Holmes governments in the United States as a luck-based act, the turn of a main management consulting firm to use the MBA Poker Championship as a recruiting venue would seem to lend truth-telling to the idea espoused by academics like Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School that poker is a game of collective memory and contrivance with real-all applications.

Nikki Rath, Senior Manager of Campus Recruiting for Booz & Company, marked in the MBA Poker adviser release that a artistic skill for poker hints that a theatrical will be moneymaking in imperative as well.

"Good poker players let be quickly on their feet, have a high mensurational aptitude, and tend to be good at diagnosing inhabitants and situations - all attributes ever so coveted by our firm. For that exemplification we will be leveraging this delight to snow on-site interviews to first glance year MBA players who wow us ad infinitum the look for time."

Of onrush, after furrowing hard these MBA students also like to actor - so in combine to the poker tournaments, Sunday's roll will taste the MBA Championship Beer Pong Tournament at around O'Shea's Casino on the Strip.

Presumably that sequence's finalists will go uninteresting on the Aftershot so they can be in good adapt for the awards initiation and pork barrel distribution that close about out the sabbatical leave.