Challenge the little bastard immediately heads up for rollz. If he wins that tell him that " well I banged your mother".

False, all I'm saying is that there is a billion things you should prioritize over poker. If you're a gossiping parent do you really think you would be impressed with the fact the kid could play poker? No. piano yes, sports yes, chess yes, there are so many things that are better for your life.

and obviously people are gonna have better results on this forum considering this is a strategy poker forum.

why would you want your kid to turn into a degen once he's 14?

Im sorry that your kid can only learn 1 thing. I did not know your kid had such a learning disability.

In your case I agree. Since I can only teach my kid 1 thing then yes that 1 thing would not be poker.

But if my kid had the ability to learn to play piano, sports, chess and poker and decide for themselves which ones they liked and disliked then I would have no problem teaching them poker, and piano, and chess, ect...

i would've cried with happiness if i were u

QFT. What's the object of the game here? You want your kid sitting in front of monitors multitabling his summers away?

Buy the kid a guitar or something, at least he'll look cool when he drops out. Come on Dad get it together

wow, I'm kind of surprised at some of these responses. Some of you are wound waaaay to tight. The little guy just wanted a reason to play with the chips. It's not like I took him to Poker University or anything. Besides, it's only natural that he'll want to participate in some way to in something that his dad spends a lot of time doing.

...this was supposed to be lol inducing, not a freaking debate.

He's gonna ask you how to get anal for stakes tomorrow.

I grew up with my single, barfly mom who always brought home random dirtbag degens. I would stay up and play rummy and cribbage with them when I was 7 years old. Its just a game to you when you are young, buy you learn strategy and application. Look at me now, I make tens of hundreds of dollars a year playing cards. Success story ldo.

Teach him to shortstack.

teach him micro sngs and take 90% of profs. if he doesnt ship 100 sngs a day ground the little bugger

i lold dont really know why though

hey, it worked for stu ungar

It's not like he's teaching him how to pay for a hooker or score some blow.

Do you also frown on teaching your child Go Fish?

no u

My son is 8 and he placed 1st and 3rd in our home game tourney in the last two weeks against all adults.

He's been playing off and on for two years. He regularly wins at the free tables on Stars. Took the initial free $1000 up to $76,000 in about three or four 20-30 min sessions on there.

He still overvalues hands like K 10, K J etc.. in cash games and has some leaks but out of the 15 people who play in the homegame (not all at once but from the people who show up) he probably ranks 5th best. He slowplays at times, bluffs at times, check-raises, value bets, protects hands. He is a decent player and for an 8 year old, he is an excellent player.

He plays with his own allowance money so he learns the real loss that comes when your AA shove gets called by JJ and they spike the J. (we don't play for huge stakes BTW) I explain the dangers of gambling to him all of the time. He has lost a lot of hands when he had the best of it going in so he understands what can happen. I tell him the stories of all of the pros who have made a lot then gone bankrupt.

For you life-nits who condemn this, I bet that he would either beat you or at least put a scare in you at chess, He can play you a song on the piano and I bet he can strike a few of you out with a baseball.

I know he is smarter than I was at his age (he can do math in his head faster than I can right now).

Yeah, I'm bragging. I'm not making any of that up though.

I played poker with my parents and grandparents all of the time when I was younger and I've only knifed me up about six hookers so far. That's less than one a year.

If you think Poker is really that horrible that you need to hide it from children like it was pornography, maybe you are doing it wrong.

this. and lol about OP

this...


1. Mark Cards
2. Make $$$$$$$
3. comfort kid with hookers/blow from profits.

-have him sign up thru ur affiliate acct, and cut him 27% RB as his allowance + whaetver his winnings are.
-Introduce him to 2p2, but block all forums except strat forums.
-Punish him for doing any degen activities.
-Constantly show him videos and tell him stories of success of tv pros so that he stays motivated.
-Read Harrington books to him as bed time stories.

3rded

try hitting him

hey, it worked for tiger woods

lol

this is not going to end well

This entire post was hilarious, actually. 8 year olds playing poker is A grade Disney movie humor.

So you WANT your son to be a donk?