Need good introduction for my speech on Texas Holdem

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Audience = Mostly 19 + 20 year olds.

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Majority don't know anything about Texas Holdem

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You sure about that?

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majority of the class are girls. so i'm making an assumption.

but even if the majority knows, there are still a few people in the class who won't know. (my speech topic is a beginner's guide to holdem.)

[PinkSteel]

Girls won't care so much for the "make a bundle playing this game" angle.

But they will buy the popularity angle. I don't have the exact numbers for this one, but I'm sure you can find them on the web pretty quickly:

"What is the biggest prize money event in the world today? Anyone know? The Kentucky Derby? The Super Bowl? The World Series?

On June x of this year, so-and-so won what they call the Main Event, the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Texas Hold'Em tournament, part of the World Series Of Poker, staged in Las Vegas. He played for x days, and he took down $x million for first prize out of a total of $y million in prize money, making this poker tournament the biggest prize money event in the world.

Poker is THE game these days, and among poker players, No-Limit Texas Hold'Em is referred to as the Cadillac of poker games. I'm going to show you how it's played."

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hm.. my angle was more like:

"You've probably heard your friends talk about it. you've probably seen it on tv. but you dont quite understand what's going on. Well, I'm here to show you how to play texas holdem."

but that sounds boring. It needs more excitement. and i guess the $ angle is better.

[LondonBroil]

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Audience = Mostly 19 + 20 year olds.

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Majority don't know anything about Texas Holdem

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You sure about that?

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majority of the class are girls. so i'm making an assumption.

but even if the majority knows, there are still a few people in the class who won't know. (my speech topic is a beginner's guide to holdem.)

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I would start out with something along these lines...

"In the poker game of life, women are the [censored] rake"

...of course then go on to explain what the rake is.

[Nicholasp27]

give em a bad beat story

everyone loves hearing those [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[stigmata]

Suck them in with something like "xxx won the largest ever pot in the history of poker, worth $1000000. In 10 minutes, your going to understand the theory behind the audacious move he did to achieve this".

This will keep them interested while you go through the boring part of explaining the rules and (very) basic strategy. Not sure about the class size, but it might be worth bringing along some chips/cards to play a couple of practise rounds (whilst you continue talking/directing the game). Audience participation is very good for keeping people interested, even if it is only a few people.

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Suck them in with something like "xxx won the largest ever pot in the history of poker, worth $1000000. In 10 minutes, your going to understand the theory behind the audacious move he did to achieve this".

This will keep them interested while you go through the boring part of explaining the rules and (very) basic strategy. Not sure about the class size, but it might be worth bringing along some chips/cards to play a couple of practise rounds (whilst you continue talking/directing the game). Audience participation is very good for keeping people interested, even if it is only a few people.

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it's a quick 5min speech. i'm not going into strategy. i'm just going to explain that each person gets 2 cards, and there's 5 community card, preflop/flop/turn/river, plus hand rankings (high card, pair, 2pair, ..., royal flush)

[crosse91]

Hi, i'm mike jones and i make 143 dollars an hour. If you're asking how or calling [censored] on me i'm here to tell you how. Iplay poker.

The basics of the game are pretty simple....

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Suck them in with something like "xxx won the largest ever pot in the history of poker, worth $1000000. In 10 minutes, your going to understand the theory behind the audacious move he did to achieve this".

This will keep them interested while you go through the boring part of explaining the rules and (very) basic strategy. Not sure about the class size, but it might be worth bringing along some chips/cards to play a couple of practise rounds (whilst you continue talking/directing the game). Audience participation is very good for keeping people interested, even if it is only a few people.

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it's a quick 5min speech. i'm not going into strategy. i'm just going to explain that each person gets 2 cards, and there's 5 community card, preflop/flop/turn/river, plus hand rankings (high card, pair, 2pair, ..., royal flush)

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Find a WPT clip of Mike Sexton explaining the game, and combine it with a Bravo Celeb. Poker Showdown clip of Dave Foley going through the hand rankings. You got your script.

FWIW, are you judged heavily on the delivery aspects vs. content? If not, I might leave the hand rankings out in favor of something else (talk about all the different shows that have been spawned; the previously unknown players who've won some of the big events (Moneymaker, et al.)

[MrBlueNose]

Tell them you are MIKE SEXTON