But a guy who missed it, \u201cJohn,\u201d always sits in the front row and takes exhaustive notes. He regularly challenges me if he doesn\u2019t understand something the first time. I don\u2019t mind this at all. Usually I know the correct answer and can set him straight. Sometimes it requires using the Video Poker for Winners<\/em> software. And a few times, he has caught an error which I took note of and corrected before the next time I taught the class.<\/p>\n But this time was different. John said, \u201cI\u2019m taking notes and I know that ten minutes ago, you said we never hold three-card straight flushes with two gaps in this game. I take good notes and I know you said it and now you\u2019re saying the opposite!\u201d<\/p>\n John was correct. I did say it. But he skipped a few words at the beginning of my quote, namely, \u201cWhen there are one or two deuces in hand . . .\u201d That is, letting a W<\/span><\/em> stand for a deuce, W<\/span><\/em> 6\u2663 8\u2663 and W W<\/span> <\/em>6\u2663 8\u2663 are eligible to be held, but W<\/span><\/em>\u00a06\u2666 9\u2666<\/span> and W W<\/span><\/em> 6\u2666 9\u2666<\/span> aren\u2019t. This rule is specific to NSU. In many other deuces wild variations, the rule is different.<\/p>\n Video poker is full of those \u201cread the fine print\u201d caveats. And it takes a while to master them. It\u2019s also possible that I didn\u2019t utter the complete caveat when I was speaking about the strategy in the 2-deuces or 1-deuce sections. Within each section, it\u2019s clearly understood that I\u2019m speaking only about the strategy rules in that section.<\/p>\n At least it\u2019s clearly understood by me. Maybe not so much by John. Which is why he asked the question.<\/p>\n Will I phrase it more accurately next time? I\u2019m not sure. When I\u2019m explaining the 1-deuce strategy, I\u2019ll mention \u201c1-deuce\u201d three or four times in the five minutes it takes to go through that section in the beginner class (the 1-deuce section in the intermediate class takes much longer than five minutes). Mentioning it more than that gets tedious and sounds too much like legalese. I can never know exactly which of my statements will get transcribed into someone\u2019s notes.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a trade-off between giving enough information and giving too much information to the class as a whole, and whatever statement I make will be too much for some particular students and not enough for others. I\u2019m sure other teachers struggle with this as well. So, I just use my judgment to pitch it where I think is appropriate and rely on student questions to let me know when they need more help.<\/p>\n There were two separate incidents that occurred during a recent NSU Deuces Wild class I taught at the South Point. They are not related to each other at all — except they both happened on the same day and neither is enough to justify an entire column. So, I\u2019ll combine them. The first incident happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1501,322,1014,507,562,1499,196,418,1503,1502,1500],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Facebook\"](\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/96x96\/facebook.png\" "\\"Follow")
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