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Niels Sprong. 'Sense maker' and discussion leader of the course. Holds a BA in Social Sciences and an MA in European Studies on Society, Science and Technology from Maastricht University. Currently working for UNU-MERIT and doing an MSc in Environment and Resource Management at VU Amsterdam. Likes to play card games and talk about card games. Synthesis of the tutorials: http://blogs.p2pu.org/poker/

Peter Wächtler. Grew up in Namibia, studied media technogy in Germany and then moved to Cape Town, South Africa where, he works as a freelancing programer. Winning poker is not his strong point, but getting an idea of the what lies behind the game of poker seems to be very rewarding. Blog: http://blogs.p2pu.org/repiet

Michael Penman works for Europe’s largest university, The Open University, supporting distance and open learning by students and by offender-learners. That work has made him interested in educational technology and blended learning. He worked for five years as a commercial and civil mediator and developed an interest in poker then, but did not play until recently. http://blogs.p2pu.org/michael_penman

Fabian Rump. As a student of computer science at the University of Bonn, Germany he is interested in strategic and abstract thinking. He is not the best at winnig a poker table but he likes the way of seeing poker as a "closed system" that may follow certain rules which could help people in other "real life" situations. Blog: http://blogs.p2pu.org/fabian89

Dennis Riedel. Studied computer science and media in Wiesbaden, Germany. Works as project manager and web developer in Barcelona, Spain. Curious about strategy and psychology in poker and drawing connections to other areas like business and social interaction. Missing a poker face.

Blog: http://blogs.p2pu.org/dsriedel

Andrea Hildreth loves living in the San Francisco California Bay Area.  She is currently working on an MS in Instructional Design and Technology with the career goal of encouraging schools to adopt a technology-friendly attitude, or a technology-welcoming attitude, or a less-hostile-toward-technology attitude, or a technology-is-not-the-enemy attitude, or easing up on the "you can't bring that in here" attitude, or . . .  She wonders if poker can be a tool for teaching economics, which is her academic passion and one of the areas she considers to be extremely unsuccessful at engaging students in the learning process.  Blog: http://blogs.p2pu.org/poker4learning