Tell him no, poker has ruined my youth.
Help him and let him play. Make sure he doesn't become a fish. Nip that in the bud.
How do the first 2 questions even relate? Say I play poker 3 days out of the week, ~5hrs. on two weekdays & 8hrs. on Sunday. How would that have anything to do with how often my child would be playing? (we do have two completely different schedules during the week... pretty sure I don't attend grade school from 9am-3pm each day).1. How many hours a week do you play poker?
2. Do you think that is a good thing?
3. How about for a teenager?
My point is, older people have no lives, nothing better to do-gambling is addictive as hell, I would be very careful here.
Are we hoping to teach him/her a lesson or something? (meaning > do we want them to lose or something? aka SuperSystem sucks imo).Give him a copy of Super System, and then laugh as he annihilates his young poker playing friends.
Not sure why you've said "the kid will play one way or another" like it's some sort of BAD thing or something????hahahah, I love it
Dumb question are we serious on the topic or is it a joke ? If a joke (You fooled me), same with you P.O, and Dakota ...< no joke! If your serious, is that not against the TOC of the site ? Poker doesn't necessarily need to be played on a 'site' on the internet (I played poker for over 20yrs. before I even knew how to turn on a computer).
As for teaching them, I mean you could do as you please, because the kid will play one way or another if they truly wish to do so, yet someone else mentioned it, wouldn't live be alot easier to grasp live with cards first then doing it online?
How do the first 2 questions even relate? Say I play poker 3 days out of the week, ~5hrs. on two weekdays & 8hrs. on Sunday. How would that have anything to do with how often my child would be playing? (we do have two completely different schedules during the week... pretty sure I don't attend grade school from 9am-3pm each day).
"gambling is addictive as hell"
Again, I don't think even much focus would even need to be on 'gambling'. I'm referring to 'teaching them how to play the pokerzzz'. Not sure how you automatically relate playing poker to the 'addictive nature of gambling'? Oh sorry... we have played on the same tables in the past so no need to answer that one, lol.
Seriously though, there is soooooo much to learn about the game & when I made the comparison to 'chess' it wasn't in regards to > 'okay so teach them how to play chess for monieezzz'. It was to make a comparison between the two as in developing a skill set for a game of skill (aka 'poker').
Are we hoping to teach him/her a lesson or something? (meaning > do we want them to lose or something? aka SuperSystem sucks imo).
Not sure why you've said "the kid will play one way or another" like it's some sort of BAD thing or something????My apologies, I didn't think I was making it sound bad (But going over it a 2nd time made it seem bad, and now that you brought it to light, why thank you P.O ), I just meant to make it like kids will do w/e they please type of thing, but your right my way did make it sound bad .
We had a blast as a family playing poker when I was a kid. Also had alot of fun with the neighbours & their kids/relatives/etc.
As far as it being easier to learn the game live as opposed to online/computer for a child goes, I think it'd be easier on the computer where the number of chips in all players stacks are labelled for you along with the size of the pot. (this makes it wayyyyy easier). More hands/hr. too (lol.. couldn't resist).
HU Hyper-Turbo SNG's or 24-tabling 2nl?Well I can't refute the evidence online poker only way to go to teach them