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Originally Posted by angle_shooter
How did you determine that Rice's audience does not play poker whatsoever? While his viewership is unlikely to be as poker centric as Andrew Neeme or Brad Owen viewers, that doesn't mean that they have zero awareness about poker concepts.
What Rice does goes well beyond just explaining. He repeats the same point over and over again, just with slight variations in wording and with multiple examples, often even using props and silly diagrams.
As has been pointed out before, he does this because he assumes he is the smartest person in the world and that he needs to dumb himself down for everyone. He does it with every subject, so it has nothing to do with his audience being poker savvy or not.
In this instance it would have been enough to just say that there needs to be 3 low cards on the board and 2 in your hand. Anyone with even the slightest understanding of how poker operates will then know that there must be at least 1 low card on the flop, and at least 2 low cards by the turn.
Why do you assume the audience is monolithic? I did not say the entire audience does not play poker whatsoever; his viewership is heterogeneous. I think he goes into detail when he explains things so that all of his viewers understand, not just the regular players. If he merely said there must be 3 low cards on the board for there to be a low, do you think non-players know that low cards must be an 8 or under and Aces play as low?
