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Texas Hold ’em Poker, Just the Basics Specific Purpose: To inform my fellow peers about Texas Hold ’em Poker. Central Idea: Learning how to play the game of poker, its basic rules and how to apply them to Texas Hold ’em can lead to enjoyment as well as monetary compensation. I. Introduction A. How many of you would like to take $86 and turn it into $2.5 million in one weekend? B. That is what Chris Moneymaker, and yes that is his real name, did at the World Series of Poker Main Event in…

for BeginnersPoker is quite a simple game in spite of what many people think. There are several versions of the game and some can be quite complex, but the five-card version known as regular poker is easy to learn and poker rules are simple, especially for beginners. Poker is played with a standard deck of 52 cards. The cards have different ranks and four suits: clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds. Each player receives five cards. The goal when we play poker game is to obtain the highest-valued…

In Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card shows the qualities a good leader needs, including skills such as motivation and strength, competitiveness, and outspokenness. In order to be a good leader, skills such as motivation and strength need to be in one’s arsenal. An example of this is when Ender confronts Graff for “calling him out” in front of his peers during the launch for being more intelligent than them. Ender argues that this pedi stool he was put on by Graff is causing other kids to not like…

time, were present in (and usually the centerpiece) of pretty much every top-level deck in competitive Standard. The excuse for these two game-breaking "errors" in design is that they slipped past R&D's "testing team," but I'll be damned if it actually seems like they played one game with either of these screwups. In fact, I strongly believe that both of these cards were designed to be broken from the start, though for vastly different reasons. Of course, I have no proof of either of these…

In poker, players commonly make a move called a bluff. The goal of a bluff is to trick the other players into thinking that your set of cards is better than theirs, so that they will fold and you can win the hand. People can use bluffs in their day-to-day lives as well. A bluff can be used to deceive others into thinking that you can, or will take action. You can manipulate people into doing what you want or need done when normally one wouldn’t have the resources to do so. Current president…

hero’s journey is used in drama, myths, storytelling, etc. In fact it has been used long before Joseph Campbell gave it a name. In the novel Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, the main character Ender proves through his story that he is indeed a hero, by experiencing Joseph Campbell's monomyth. Four specific sections of the hero journey Ender's Game hits are, the ROAD OF TRIALS, the BELLY OF THE WHALE, MASTERY OF TWO…

With my time of playing this game me and my friends talked and connected to hundreds of other players face to face, talking about the game, and strategies to gain more Virtual creatures. This game gave my entire city an interconnectedness that hasn’t been seen for a long time. Our downtown and city center had meet ups every night, having literally hundreds of people turn out each night, these were people of all ages, sex and race coming together just to play a game. Outside of my own town, other…

Quiet was a luxury in the Edwards’ family home. The air was normally filled with the raucous vulgarity of Lyle’s bi-weekly poker games or the non-stop chorus of “amen” from Sadie’s Bible study. Except this particular cool Sunday evening. James had the house to himself and he was spending it the only way any introverted teenage boy would, reading Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. He was still in early in the novel but was engrossed in it. James had just reached the scene where Ender was…

The crowd was growing larger and rowdier around the circular table where my church friends and I were playing cards. This year, our ministry traveled to the desert heat in St. Francis, South Dakota. While playing, Lexi, a girl next to me slapped the center card, in response, the audience let out an “OOOOH,” then we all started laughing. While Lexi pulled the victorious card into her deck, I thought about the first time I met her. It was Intercity tennis and I played number one doubles with my…

exemplify effective leadership, such as the Roman Empire, Alexander the Great, and even the British in their prime, do we always see them concerned with ethics? No, in fact, we rarely do. This essay will prove how Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel “Ender’s Game” reveals that effective leadership is not always ethical or even concerned with ethics. Throughout the beginning of each of the chapters, we read about two people talking. They remain unnamed, though it’s heavily implied that they are very…