Tikay Please Read! Poker Training Visual Aids

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Wow, what a question!

Easy answer first. As Indestructable notes, the 3 or 4 "specials" I recorded as "Poker Bowls" for Pokerzone are on the PokerZone Website I believe. We recorded one in Repton Gym, in the very same Boxing Ring used in Lock, Stock & da de da de da. These shows were all sponsored by Sporting Odds.

They also produced CD's (or was it DVD's?) of each show. For the last show they sent out by mail 60,000 CD's. I was in their office a while later, & there were boxes of these CD's everywhere, dozens & dozens of boxes of them. "Why so?" I asked. "We don't know" they said, "but 17,000 were sent back as "return to sender". Peeps don't know what they were missing, eh? So if you wanna CD, just say.......

The really odd thing about those CD's is that I must have had - literally - 5 or 6 hundred e-Mails to my Sporting Odds e-addy from peeps saying "thanks, it helped me a lot". Who'd have thunk that?

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OK, how to teach poker?

In a way, you can't - you can only teach basics, hand rankings, & stuff like starting hand criteria, position, the "gap" concept iin calling v raising, board recognition, bla bla bla. 

And table behaviour - betting in turn, handling chips so you don't look like a numpty, handling your cards ditto (newbies tend to pick them up), watching tricks, as it were

Poker is so personal, every situation is really "it depends". Complete idiots can win at poker, though in the longer term they'll lose of course. It reflects peoples personality, generally. I believe this last point strongly, it's a bit like the old adage that a dog looks or behaves like it's owner.

Flushy - aggressive personality, aggressive, "throw caution to the wind" player.

Red-Dog - solid, assesses every situation carefully, only bets BIG hands. Or he tries to make people think he does......

Jen - gets inside YOUR mind, plays YOUR hand not hers.

Rob Yong. Fearless, "any two", because he believes he can get you off any hand.

Me - overly cautious, fence-sitter, better not Raise/Call "just in case".

This is peoples personalities coming out at poker.

And it's why, in my humble opinion, you can NOT learn poker out of a book. It's a personal thing. So just the basics really. Let THEM learn it, you just "guide", be their fairy wheels, then let them go.