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Originally Posted by feel wrath
I think he wanted 1 thing
It’s too complicated of a topic to teach 1 specific thing and think that’s the proper place to start. Too much of it compiles on each other. General gameplay could be considered 1 topic or many, but understanding how the game is played is fundamentally where starting has to happen.
It’s also not a topic that needs to be drilled into someone for hours and hours. Most people are bright enough that you teach them how general gameplay works and after a few mock orbits, they understand. Hand rankings I would write on a piece of paper, after like an hour of play, they’ll probably know sets and lower, flushes/straights will probably get reversed for a little bit, but eventually they would get all of it. Then you move to actual topics, like preflop hand selection.
when I teach my kids games, we just play them and I correct them as we go and they seem to pick it up after a short period of time. I would just do the same. Just deal out your hand and their hand, their hand face up and help them with what to do. Maybe deal a few fake people’s hands in, so it’s not HU
Last edited by johnny_on_the_spot; 06-26-2021 at 09:20 AM.