I have to teach a bunch of old, smart lawyers to play good poker. Help

[FeltBelt]

Hey all,

I have been asked by a bunch of senior partners at my firm to put on a brief clinic for them on how to play good poker. They (and I) will be playing in a large charity tournament, and they want to have the skills to do reasonably well. They are all smart, obviously, but pretty green at poker. What are the top things I should be telling them?

Thanks.

[Bond18]

Explain the basics of how the game is played, then uy a PXF subscription, then sit them down in front of it and let Bax/sheets do the work.

[kleath]

Position is king, very rarely open limp, 10bbs or less means it's push fold, don't minbet/minraise, Tight and Aggressive. I'd say these are decent tournament concepts for newbies, you can't really teach a lot of advanced plays as in a short amount of time it will do more harm than good, really just teach solid ABC tournament poker and make sure you touch on inflection points a bit.

[pacecar86]

OMG - is this a CLE (career limiting experience)?? <<<grin>>

Seriously - Kill Phil/Sklansky System?

[SossMan]

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Hey all,

I have been asked by a bunch of senior partners at my firm to put on a brief clinic for them on how to play good poker. They (and I) will be playing in a large charity tournament, and they want to have the skills to do reasonably well. They are all smart, obviously, but pretty green at poker. What are the top things I should be telling them?

Thanks.

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I would start with the rules and what beats what. How to read the board, etc...

[surftheiop]

teach them that K 4 is not a good hand to call a raise with (ie some starting hand requirements)

[hamnegger]

let em read sklansky's all in or fold theory in i think its advanced tourn strategies

[surftheiop]

I think all in or fold would be lame for this occasion. These guys dont really care about winning money i assume, they just want to play and look somewhat competent. Teach them basics, raise good hand, fold bad hand.

[NYTyler]

TELL THEM TO GET THEIR MONEY IN GOOD!!!!!

[bobneptune]

HOH 1 starting hands in a print out with comments would be a good place to start.

linky http://groups.msn.com/PokerNation/6n...dsandbets.msnw