Don't teach your young children poker online! |
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Posted Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:38 pm GMT by PuckJunkieNY
I was chatting with this guy in a NL Ultimate Pts. game, he was telling me about his buddy who taught his 7 year old how to play hold'em by letting him watch Dad play online games and allowing the kid to participate in play $ games. Well apparently this kid went on the computer while Dad was not looking and lost about 3000 Ult. pts. before he caught him in the act. Ya see Dad was dumb enough to leave the auto loggin w/PW for UB acct. set up.
I was rolling! :D
Let this be a lesson to you parents w/young (or spitefull) children.
At least he used the Ultimate pts. and not the real $ I say.
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Posted Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:26 pm GMT by BeerWench13
HA HA HA HA 
That's one of the many reasons I don't have children  Thanks for the laugh. I needed it today.
Posted Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:19 pm GMT by nicthestick
I think that dude donated to me!!!!!!!! If you see him again, say thank you.
Posted Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:34 pm GMT by Dave B
My 4 year old girl will sit w/ me and read off the cards that I get. Daddy you have a big A and another big A. Thats right honey, time to load up sweetheart!
She also likes to change the color of the cards by clicking on the dealer rack at party poker. I get a great big smile everytime a new color gets dealt.
BTW-I dont play until after she goes to bed, but lately it has been hard getting her to STAY in bed.
Posted Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:05 pm GMT by Leo
gotta catch them while they're young 
Posted Fri Feb 27, 2004 7:28 pm GMT by MuddyGrimes
 My two oldest kids ( girl 11 and son 9) play holdem...their Grandpa taught them at his house...
If I am playing in the evening I will usually let them watch...
Honestly, I enjoy the fact that they are learning the game...best thing is now I have two players to play with...
I have let them both play online with me sitting next to them...of course I don't let them play the real money...but I get a big kick out of them slow playing the nuts...
my two cents
Posted Sat Feb 28, 2004 3:23 pm GMT by Hawk_1MG
I'm teaching my son how to play. He's in the next room right now, trying to shuffle chips. 
My wife wasn't happy at first, but I told her it's a skill that he can develop to last him his whole life. Besides the potential of being profitable, it's a great socializing tool. I let him play with my free acounts, and once he gets decent I have no problem letting him play micro limit or $5 SnG's
^Hawk^
Posted Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:35 am GMT by _.~`ZeuS`~._
I think its great getting kids to play, you never know you could have a Chris Ackerman sitting next to you and never know! Plus think of the bennies, by the time they are old enough to play leagally they could be cashing out with some retirement money for you Just remember to take out a teaching fee
Posted Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:23 am GMT by JohnnyCache
| Hawk_1MG wrote: | I'm teaching my son how to play. He's in the next room right now, trying to shuffle chips. :roll:
My wife wasn't happy at first, but I told her it's a skill that he can develop to last him his whole life. Besides the potential of being profitable, it's a great socializing tool. I let him play with my free acounts, and once he gets decent I have no problem letting him play micro limit or $5 SnG's
^Hawk^ |
I don't think there's anything wrong with it. He's going to see you and want to play, so you might as well teach him to be good at it...
Unless you (hypocritcally) bring him up NEVER to play, he's going to someday, and he might as well win, right? And a poker game is one of those 'good ol boy' things that can stand a person in good stead for connections . . .
Just don't start him out skinning his friends too early. . .
Posted Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:34 pm GMT by PuckJunkieNY
You got it JC.
And hell it's a good way to recoup the kds allowance..at least until he/she get their game down and take pop/mom down big.
I can see it now..."Son, I raise you next weeks allowance and 2 lawn mows" 
Posted Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:25 pm GMT by Saso8910
I'm sorry - real sorry. But, I do not agree with all of you child bearers. My Father played professionally for a few years before he met my mother in the mid 70's. His Father taught him to play and he regretted it ever since. He doesn't mind me playing, since the game has changed and I learned on my own- and I win more than I loose. But, he never speaks about poker and his days in Vegas.
I know that my family and opinion are my own, but I truly feel that playing cards online with your children is a big mistake! Kids see - Kids do. Do you really want your kid to move to Vegas with a dream of winning the WSOP? I would rather want my children to want to grow up to be a Doctor, Lawyer, Astronaut- whatever! Something that is more realistic for creating a good quality of life other than a daily grind at a poker table. I may be going overboard on this, but all of my childhood friends whose parents smoked, now smoke, and all whose parents were alcoholics are now alcoholics. I'm just saying, why take the risk? At least wait until they hit puberty for God's sake.
We all want to be proud of our kids- but online poker? Come on! Even if it is for play money.... kids don't even understand the concept of real money yet.
Posted Wed Mar 24, 2004 8:30 pm GMT by racquet000
| BeerWench13 wrote: | HA HA HA HA
That's one of the many reasons I don't have children Thanks for the laugh. I needed it today. |
Im sure you think to yourslef. Damn i dont want kids. They will get online and spend my money on online poker.
Posted Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:19 am GMT by JohnnyCache
Well, saso, I want my kids to do what makes them feel alive. . . I have an opposite experience: I wanted, more then anything in life, to be an astronaught. My parents said it was unrealistic, owing to my size (I'm 6'5") and eyesight (Very, very bad), and I never could, and it was a stupid dream and I was going to study this and that the other thing. I did exactly what my parents told me (effing BRILLIANTLY, I might add) until I was about 19, and then I realized I was empty and miserable, and I proceded to become a drug dealer. :( (I'm not one anymore, for the record - that was many years ago)
But here's the two ironic things:
A)I max out every aptitude required to be an aviator.
B)They have a surgery to fix my eye problem now.
What does all that mean? I don't know. . . . but my parents faild me by telling me to keep my feet on the ground.
Now, deep moment aside, it doesn't automatically follow that Hawk is teaching his son to play FOR A LIVING. My dad taught me to play poker when I was 7. I'm 25 and I've been to a casino twice! If I teach my son to play basketball, am I teaching him that he will be Michael Jordon? If I teach him to use a wrench (or bottom deal:) ), am I dooming him to a life as a mechanic? Hawk's son will probably not lose a lot of home games as an adult, and maybe during college he'll round a bit on the frat crowd . . . but you don't decide to do something like play cards for a living unless you feel it, and if you feel it, you're going to do it. Hell, as far as I know, there are maybe two real life full time gamblers on this forum . . .
And my parents smoke like chimneys. I can't abide a smoker. . . words and blood don't tell what actions do, half so well.
Posted Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:42 am GMT by groton
lol at the dude about kids getting influnised bad from onlinepoker.
my Grandfather
who iv spent most my life with
Always had homegames going when i was growing up iv heard storys of me being sleeping in my carseat at some of the home games
he now plays alot at foxwoods manly the 10-20/20-40 games.
well i play like once a week or so at foxwoods 2-4/4-8 games
for a hundred bucks or so.
i say i should of watched more lol.
and id win more
Posted Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:25 am GMT by BeerWench13
| Quote: | | Kids see - Kids do |
Are we now likening children to monkeys? Sure you want to teach your child to do the right thing, but there are extremes to everything. I was raised in a strict Baptist household. I never even heard a song that didn't have Jesus in it until I was 12! My parents had strict rules on everything from smoking and drinking to rock & roll and gambling. I wasn't allowed to do any of those things. Now I do them all the time. Call it rebellion or whatever you'd like, but I feel that I became an adult and made my own decisions.
And, yes, racquet I would be worried about my kids spending all of my online poker money. Like I said, that's one of the many reasons I don't have kids (except the hubby, of course). I have pets. They don't have thumbs. I like it that way.
Posted Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:31 am GMT by Ninja
Well speaking as someone who was in a kids point of view not long ago-I didn't do just as my parents taught me. Now, if my older brother had taught me to play poker, I would have started much much earlier. I don't think allowing your kids to play online with play money is bad, in fact, it's a good thing to learn! It's a very social thing, especially with buddies.
Posted Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:01 pm GMT by Jonniedough
This could be an on going debate, No one is right and no one is wrong.
I think as a child grows in any aspect if you teach him or her to your fullist knowledge of any life related experience, that child will grow up understand and adapting to what they feel right, be it Poker, a Doctor, or a Lawyer.
Im sure your all great parents and your children will follow in your shoes some closer then others but their right beind you.
Posted Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:14 pm GMT by krakajak
I think poker is a useful skill to know, and I definately plan to teach it to my daughter as soon as she is old enough to understand the concepts behind it. She's 2, and she knows her #'s, her shapes and her and ABC's. If she sees a 7 of hearts, she'll say "seven heart" Now I'm trying to teach her "club" and "spade", and that a J on a card is called a "jack".
If she becomes good enough to do it professionally some day, god bless her. It sure beats working for a boss. At the minimum she'll have a way to earn a little pocket money when she needs it. I think I will give her a poker allowance, and let her play with that until she gets good enough to build her own bankroll.
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