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Syllabus for Poker 101
Course Description: This course is designed for the people that have little or no successful experience at casino poker. It is introductory and gives the student and overall view of the game. It will not make a winning player out of you but it will help the student understand that there is a correct way to play poker and give them the tools to understand a more advanced discussion of the games.
Who will benefit from this class:
Beginners and Losers
A beginner has not played casino poker or on the internet. It doesn’t matter how much “kitchen” poker you have played. The games are different. I had won at kitchen tables and on Army cots all over the world, but when I sat down at the green felt in Las Vegas twenty years ago, I was a beginner. It took me a year to understand that.
Loser is not meant to be a derogatory term. It simply means that you lose more money than you win playing poker. Evaluate yourself. If you budget $100 a month to play poker and never exceed that, you are loser. If at the end of the year, you don’t owe tax money on your poker winnings, you are loser. (Even if you don’t pay it, you still owe it.)
Instructor: Professor Emeritus J. B. Harshaw:
He’s older than dirt and remembers that Andrew Jackson used to be a sucker for a flush draw.
Text Book:
There is no required text, but the book, The Everything Poker Strategy Book,” is highly recommended.
Other suggested materials:
Membership into a beginner friendly online poker site like: Absolute Poker, or Paradise Poker, for play money only.
Subjects to be covered:
Hand Rankings
There is a right way
Rules of the games, (Texas Hold’em and Seven Card Stud)
Basic strategy and tactics
Introduction to online play
Introduction to tournament play
Concepts of real money play
Introduction to live casino play
Evaluations:
Quiz 1 Reading the hands
Quiz 2 Starting hands
Quiz 3 Betting Tactics
Homework will be assigned when it can reinforce understanding.
Class Discussions will temporarily be held on the www.SororityPoker.net forums, Poker School-Poker 101. Individual tutoring at “Fun” money tables, using IM or Yahoo, might be arranged time permitting
For the complete class: www.SororityPoker.net
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