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Poker University: A what if Scenario
What if there were a 4 year course in a major university where you could earn a degree as a poker player.
What classes would a student be proficient in, in order to even get into the course?
What Books would be required reading?
Forget about the teachers, but what would the course load look like? What about required auxillary classes?
Assume that Each student is willing to put forward 15 credt hours a semester for 4 years.
1st Year Limit basics
Poker 101: 2 credits Poker Basics; how to play, betting structures, rules, basic starting hands, and positional awareness, Bankroll management. Basic introduction to all limit games.
Poker 102: 3 credits Odds 1 full semester of studying the odds in different situations
Statistics Math: 5 credits
Poker Lab, 2 credits playing poker in a regulated environment with your peers, playing all limit games introduced in Poker 101.
Poker 103: 3 Poker History. A study of the great players, and what games started where.
First semester would deal with low limit games only, thus King Yao's Math of Hold 'em book, and Sklansky's SSH would be required reading. Perhaps Super System 1 for poker 103. Hoyles book of rules for the rules of each game.
I feel like I'm just coming out of poker 100 level learning
What about 200, 300 and 400 level learning? What year should you be learning NLHE? 2nd? what is required reading? What types of skills should a player be introduced to before moving onto the next hundred levels of classes?
Where would ISF theorem come along? Yeti Theorom? tournament poker introduced 3rd year? Would spendin' money like a Balla be 4th year reading?
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