Speech on Gambling

[Tyrannosaurus]

I'm taking an education class, and I have to deliver a 15 minute speech. It can be about most anything. The class is about 30 people, mostly senior health majors. My brief outline is

-The stigma of gambling, and how it used to be so associated with

drinking, crime, and prostitution.

-EV calculations and how to use them for a variety of things

-The blue hand commercial (I can't find it, anyone know where it is? youtube? I don't even remember who made it.)

_Sports Betting, and i'll give some recent examples of local teams
-Casino Games

-Poker, and how it's different than lots of gambling because you're not playing the house

-Other online betting, and I'll give examples of stuff like betting

on movie opening weekends, with some examples that they would have

heard of

-Pro's and Con's of gambling for a living (money, schedule, variance, hanging out with degenerates, etc)

-Industry stats

-Regulation, laws, and lottery

-gambling addiction? I'm kinda taking the position that although people can be addicted to gambling, it's not so much different than girls getting credit cards and going into debt, except there's a lot more marketing going into making you spend money than there is trying to make you gamble.

Basically I want this to be really interactive. I want to start most topics with audience interaction (how much did harry potter 5 make opening weekend, Anyone know how much the Ducks were favored by last week? Who here has heard of Texas Hold 'em)

Anything else i could talk about? Anyone have cool ideas for how to approach this? I want to make gambling look good, and clear up some misconceptions about it. I want this to be fun and funny. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]