Outline Of Informative Speech: How I Learned To Play Poker
Poker Speech Outline Poker Informative Speech
Specific Purpose: Inform the audience that poker is a game of skill. As a result, it is profitable in the longrun.
Introduction – Who likes money? Excellent me too!
- That’s one reason that I play poker.
- Explain the story of how I learned to play poker from my father and what I’ve accomplished with poker [To Build Positive Ethos + Grab Attention]
- Poker is not gambling if you understand the game. Poker is beatable. It is a game of skill.
Main Point #1 – Skilled Professionals Make Similar Salaries As Professional Sports Players
- The WSOP was established in 1970 and the same players often advance deep into tournaments.
- This is not coincidence. …show more content…
- Online, you can’t see faces. The best tell you have is the pause it takes to bet. This is unreliable so online players rely heavily on math.
- Live, there isn’t anything more valuable than the ability to read someone.
- Some people can always tell when you’re lying or something is wrong. Some are oblivious.
- The best players are capable of providing little information to their peers. They hide tells.
Main Point #3 – Every Move In Poker Has An Expected Value (EV)
- You can’t always know what your opponents have, but with practice you can put them on a range.
- Based on this range, you can estimate the percentage of time you can win.
- Each of your bets in the game, are tailored to your expected chance to win.
- Fundamental Theorem of Poker:
“Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would if you could see all your opponents cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose.” -David Sklansky from The Theory of Poker
- Even AA vs. 72 preflop has a 12.4% chance to lose by the end of the hand. But if you consistently make the right decision you will profit over
Specific Purpose: Inform the audience that poker is a game of skill. As a result, it is profitable in the longrun.
Introduction – Who likes money? Excellent me too!
- That’s one reason that I play poker.
- Explain the story of how I learned to play poker from my father and what I’ve accomplished with poker [To Build Positive Ethos + Grab Attention]
- Poker is not gambling if you understand the game. Poker is beatable. It is a game of skill.
Main Point #1 – Skilled Professionals Make Similar Salaries As Professional Sports Players
- The WSOP was established in 1970 and the same players often advance deep into tournaments.
- This is not coincidence. …show more content…
- Online, you can’t see faces. The best tell you have is the pause it takes to bet. This is unreliable so online players rely heavily on math.
- Live, there isn’t anything more valuable than the ability to read someone.
- Some people can always tell when you’re lying or something is wrong. Some are oblivious.
- The best players are capable of providing little information to their peers. They hide tells.
Main Point #3 – Every Move In Poker Has An Expected Value (EV)
- You can’t always know what your opponents have, but with practice you can put them on a range.
- Based on this range, you can estimate the percentage of time you can win.
- Each of your bets in the game, are tailored to your expected chance to win.
- Fundamental Theorem of Poker:
“Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would if you could see all your opponents cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose.” -David Sklansky from The Theory of Poker
- Even AA vs. 72 preflop has a 12.4% chance to lose by the end of the hand. But if you consistently make the right decision you will profit over