The World According to Boutros Naim
Boutros Pierre Naim is a man of will.
The Lebanese-born, poker-playing Monaco resident �� and PokerStars qualifier to the EPT Main Event this week �� once quit his investment banking job on a whim because his company moved offices from one part of London to another. It increased his commuting time and Naim wouldn��t stand for it.
��For me,�� he says, ��this was basically a no-go.�� So he moved to Monaco.
But when he was in his 60s and living in the principality, Naim found himself missing his son, who had moved to Massachusetts to attend Babson College. Naim decided to move nearby and applied to Harvard University �� not to seek a degree but simply to take courses on subjects like economics, the history of the Ottoman Empire, and meta-ethics. He applied for admission through the same process as any other student, leading to some bureaucratic-themed amusement.
Read the full article by Jason Kirk at the PokerStars Blog.