Interesting poker related question

[cntgetmedown]

I was speaking to a friend today from University who is a sporadic poker player. He asked me for how many hours I thought I could teach my poker knowledge for.
Let's say you were going to teach a poker class to students that were new to poker. For how many hours do you think you could keep going until you had no more wisdom to pass on to them?

"Ok, I think I should specify the question some more. I'm interested in an actual hour estimate you could teach your knowledge to an average student with an information level of zero. I am also assuming that you teach what you know and not everything there is out there. So if you know MTTs, NLHE, PLO, then you probably have a lot more to teach than somebody who just knows NLHE. Further I'm also assuming there will be some sort of interaction with the student, we're not just gonna throw information at them, but give them the opportunity to interact with us.
I'm just interested what people would estimate if they were forced to give a number, also if you are good in multiple games, then I think it would be cool to add those with your hour estimate."

[alexgotay]

I think its easy to make a complete major degree of poker +4years

[Xorkrik]

Well there's a difference between Poker and NL Holdem. If your gonna teach all the different games. And then you have tournament, sit&go, cash. HU, 6-max, Full ring. Different stakes. Online or live.

A complete Poker education could take a long time. Though ofc no 1 teacher would be enough.

I think you can teach poker endlessly because the game is constantly evolving. But I think it shouldn't have to take more then 1 month of real school, 7-8 hours 5 days a week, to make someone decent at NL Holdem in a specific strategy (MTT/Sit&go/cash). That's assuming no prior knowledge, you'd have to teach them that a flush beats a straight...


Me personally I guess I could teach NL Holdem basics for 2 hours maybe .

[Probability]

i think it depends on the person you are teaching. i can say everything i know about poker fairly quickly but to have someone actually absorb it is a different story.

[cntgetmedown]

Ok, I think I should specify the question some more. I'm interested in an actual hour estimate you could teach your knowledge to an average student with an information level of zero. I am also assuming that you teach what you know and not everything there is out there. So if you know MTTs, NLHE, PLO, then you probably have a lot more to teach than somebody who just knows NLHE. Further I'm also assuming there will be some sort of interaction with the student, we're not just gonna throw information at them, but give them the opportunity to interact with us.
I'm just interested what people would estimate if they were forced to give a number, also if you are good in multiple games, then I think it would be cool to add those with your hour estimate.

[alexgotay]

Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of everything I know including what beat what, reading boards, math, other forms of poker like MTT, PLO, 6max/HU deepstack, and all that and of course do it including tests , hand discussions, video reviews.

There is a ton of info to give, so I think is very easy to do it for a very extensive period of time.

[robbyd86]

It would take me 3 hrs before i was out of wisdom.

[d2themfi]

I could go for a lifetime. After we covered all basic probability theory, poker theory, then game theory and risk management, then we could just break down the correct play on every single possible flop combination possible, plus turns and rivers in an ev calculator. I would imagine that would take a lifetime, and probably still not be done

[cntgetmedown]

Originally Posted by d2themfi

I could go for a lifetime. After we covered all basic probability theory, poker theory, then game theory and risk management, then we could just break down the correct play on every single possible flop combination possible, plus turns and rivers in an ev calculator. I would imagine that would take a lifetime, and probably still not be done

Yea, but if you did that you would be repeating yourself a decent amount of the time, because once you've explained the model to solve hands on flop type x, your student should be able to solve xa, xb, xc etc. It's about teaching him your wisdom, not solving poker.

[d2themfi]

in that case maybe a couple hundred hours, maybe more esp if they are a completely blank slate, and we went over not just hunl but 6max, mtts, plo, lhe etc