I remember seing teens in films playing poker in the street at may be 14! Do you think this too young?

It seems too young to make a debut at casino.
However, it´s late make a debut to play poker to be a great player. Because they (14 yo guys) don´t have more potentials to improve their mathmatic brains than 3 yo kids. Besides this, 3 yo kids have 18 years to learn & have experience until 21 yo.

All kinds of game professionals (baseball, football, chess, darts & more) made their debuts before 10 yo or more younger.

I DO NOT think age is a problem to start playing poker ... I mean after you come of age (18 years old) you can start playing poker .... I have seen great players of all ages, colors and sizes ...

Well, if you really need poker money, manipulating people is part of how many players do it. You don’t want your kid involved in ‘real’ street poker, where people try and encourage losers to lose more than they would otherwise and are nasty to others to get them off their game. From a purely cognitive standpoint, I guess its like chess, the younger you start the better you have the potential to become.

I think poker is a sport, but poker is also a gamble.
Therefore, I believe that only adults can play poker.

I started at 16 years old playing online xd

I heard Doyle Brunson say once in an interview that certain early experiences in life prepares you to be a good poker player. I don't think 10 to 15 year olds have had enough life to be good at poker, I'm not talking about general skills, but about mental toughness and discipline which are key component of the game and overlooked by many and they might be what separates winners from losers.

For a START, 14 is not too young because you need to gain experience. However, I highly doubt this early age could bring notable results. But to start, yeah, it is not too early to start.

I think that a 14-year-old does not have the maturity necessary to face a career in poker, perhaps with 18 years a little more mature and aware he could start playing for real money, but before that I think it would be bouncing money The trash

I think only adults should play poker. If children do play, they should not play for money.

I don't know how young but i know it's never too late to start playing poker.

14 Years old is too young to start playing i think . poker for adult i remember my first hand poker in 2014 im 35 years old

It's never too early to play poker. after all, chess is played by very young children.

You can play poker at any age, but playing poker for real money needs to be controlled.

Too young is under the legal gambling age ..

I will start teaching my child from the age of 12. This is a normal age.

If you aren't playing on money then 7+ yr old is pretty normal in my opinion, because its game of fun and you have to think with your brain so its not that bad for underage people.

I would say younger than 14 is too young.

Go-a- fish. Monopoly, war. I think when then have a job. Sorry so short. Good luck on the tables and as always have fun

Young people have a lot of different problems to solve and poker should not be one of them!

Hmm,
Maybe 15 years, with some good advice first though

I don’t think it’s like being too young for a card game. Of course you have to play for money or in a poker room for a certain age, but you can play with friends in a matchstick or cola cap for any age. It is no accident is called a card game. Fun but of course only without a bet.

13 years old is good time to know the basics of the game as to start playing any card game.

I think playing poker for fun is fine. But playing with money when 14 years old is certainly too young. I start playing poker when I begin to study at the university and I feel it is a good time to begin to play.

Playing poker is fine at any age, its a card game! Playing for money is another thing altogether.
However when I was a kid, we used to have family games for pennies and dimes. Not poker mind you, it was a game called 31 if I recall. I don't really remember it too well. A big night was maybe a few bucks won.

Originally Posted by mimietmour

I remember seing teens in films playing poker in the street at may be 14! Do you think this too young?

Play poker? As soon as they can remember the hierarchy of winning hands.

Win at poker? As soon as they understand math. If they can't stack the odds in their favor then they will lose a lot.

There should be poker clubs in high school.

Good luck !

Originally Posted by mimietmour

I remember seing teens in films playing poker in the street at may be 14! Do you think this too young?

Yes 14 is too young. Age to start playing is 21 as a person mind has matured. And this is how casino's operate.

Originally Posted by mimietmour

I remember seing teens in films playing poker in the street at may be 14! Do you think this too young?

No age is too young to start playing. The age to start gambling is the concern. Of course, the age is the legal age for gambling that is too young to gamble. Teach a young kid poker and they will become great mathematically and analytically in my opinion. Not only that if they played and was taught to play correct. They will crush!

Hello.
I believe that poker is a game for adults. In my opinion, the players must be at least 16 years old.

Originally Posted by Dkerridge14

No age is too young to start playing. The age to start gambling is the concern. Of course, the age is the legal age for gambling that is too young to gamble. Teach a young kid poker and they will become great mathematically and analytically in my opinion. Not only that if they played and was taught to play correct. They will crush!

The posters in this thread seem to be answering two different questions. How young is too young to play poker and how young is too young to gamble are two very different questions. When I was a child, I had a casino game for my video game system. My father seeing me play it inspired him to start giving me pointers.

I also grew up with a pool table in the house. I started playing when I was so small that I had to drag a chair around to stand on in order to shoot. My father never taught me to play pool, but he never discouraged me from playing.

Having learned from a young age and being skilled at these games didn't lead me to become a degenerate gambler. In fact, I was twenty-five years old before I ever bet on a game of pool and then only because the guy I was playing was trying to run a hustle and insisted that we play for drinks.

I started playing poker at the age of 16 with my schoolmates. I was turning my pocket money weekly after which I took a break of about 5 years and at the age of 25 I started playing online

Hi.
I started playing poker about 4-5 years ago. When I started I was about 32-33 years old. I am in no hurry, and I plan to play poker for at least another 30-40 years.
Good luck.

If it is not involving money, as soon as you are able to do math you are ready to start learning poker .... (my opinion)

Prime age is 8-12. I have been trying to get some youth into poker but yeah in generally this type of game doesn't interest modern youth

I think that the ideal age to start playing poker is 18, due to the necessary maturity and the ability to understand situations that at a younger age is more difficult

Originally Posted by mimietmour

I remember seing teens in films playing poker in the street at may be 14! Do you think this too young?

I think from a purely strategic point of view, that one can start playing poker at any age. It's just like any other cards game and is a great way to learn math, logic, and other skills.

The issue is around the gambling element and how that can warp the brain a little bit or put the youth on a high. For this reason I think that the gambling side shouldn't really be included until late teens perhaps. That being said if the teacher is teaching investment strategy and proper bankroll / money management then perhaps 13 is fine, when kids would start working.

As for the gambling... I mean how old does a kid have to be to go to carnivals and chucky-cheese. Because those are basically places that get kids prepped for gambling for real money later, so from a societal perspective it would seem like they think any age is fine...

I don't think there is any age borders in poker, if you're good you can be good at any age.