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How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card

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Re: How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card

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Post by btilly »

thebigspacefuck wrote: post #18
more_corn wrote: post #7

One of the best life lessons I learned was while perusing a poker strategy book in a bookstore as a teen. I’ve never been into poker, not even sure why I picked it up. One thing it said was the most important thing to remember is that most of your hands will be crap. Don’t get attached to a bad hand and don’t convince yourself that an ok hand is a good hand. If you just fold the bad hands and play the good ones you’r…

That just makes you a tight passive player which is not the worst kind of player to be but also not likely to win you a lot of money

Being a loose aggressive player is far more likely to lead to you losing a lot of money, than winning a lot of money.

Once you consider what the house earns, poker is a net negative for the players. In order for there to be some big winners, there have to be a lot of losers. And a shocking number of those losers will, thanks to our selective memories, consider themselves winning players.

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Post by albedoa »

wileydragonfly wrote: post #13
more_corn wrote: post #7

One of the best life lessons I learned was while perusing a poker strategy book in a bookstore as a teen. I’ve never been into poker, not even sure why I picked it up. One thing it said was the most important thing to remember is that most of your hands will be crap. Don’t get attached to a bad hand and don’t convince yourself that an ok hand is a good hand. If you just fold the bad hands and play the good ones you’r…

That’s it. That’s the entire strategy. I pray that the Texas Hold ‘Em fad doesn’t come back. That was an insufferable decade of hearing how clever everyone was.

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Re: How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card

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Post by tgijs »

more_corn wrote: post #7

One of the best life lessons I learned was while perusing a poker strategy book in a bookstore as a teen. I’ve never been into poker, not even sure why I picked it up. One thing it said was the most important thing to remember is that most of your hands will be crap. Don’t get attached to a bad hand and don’t convince yourself that an ok hand is a good hand. If you just fold the bad hands and play the good ones you’r…

For me, it's "decisions, not results." Poker will teach you patience and acceptance of that which is out of your control.

Re: How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card

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Post by anitil »

quantified wrote: post #4
robocat wrote: post #3

Training your kids how to lie convincingly to you -- what could go wrong?

It's an essential skill in life anyway, but you also teach the usual ethics and morals and come down hard on them when you catch them in a meaningful lie. You never got away with anything as a teenager?

I think it's also considered a developmental milestone as lying requires a pretty sophisticated theory of mind, and an understanding of the perspective of another person

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Post by PaulHoule »

Had some family come over and play Texas Hold’em with us and their kids. It was clear they were too stupid to be intimidated so there was no possibility of bluffing, instead I just folded over and over again until I had two really good cards and then would see me no matter what I bet and ai grew my bankroll that way.

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Post by DrewRWx »

jefftk wrote: post #20
robocat wrote: post #3

Training your kids how to lie convincingly to you -- what could go wrong?

When my kids were maybe 6 and 4 we started playing One Night Ultimate Werewolf as a family. It very quickly became clear this was a bad choice: the oldest went from being terrible at lying (and so ~never doing it) to actually being pretty good, surprisingly quickly. As soon as we noticed this we stopped, and while she didn't go back to how she had been there was definitely much less lying and she didn't remain good a…

Do you think she adopted her pokerface she learned it against you or was there another reason?

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Post by jefftk »

DrewRWx wrote: post #28
jefftk wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When my kids were maybe 6 and 4 we started playing One Night Ultimate Werewolf as a family. It very quickly became clear this was a bad choice: the oldest went from being terrible at lying (and so ~never doing it) to actually being pretty good, surprisingly quickly. As soon as we noticed this we stopped, and while she didn't go back to how she had been there was definitely much less lying and she didn't remain good a…

Do you think she adopted her pokerface she learned it against you or was there another reason?

I think it's simpler than that: people get better at things with practice.

Werewolf isn't like poker where people typically try to conceal their emotions and leak nothing; instead you're trying to act like you're on the Villager team regardless of whether you actually are.

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Post by blitztime »

robocat wrote: post #3

Training your kids how to lie convincingly to you -- what could go wrong?

I’d say bluffing in poker isn’t really lying. I mean you certainly can look at it that way, but another way to look at it is “I have good hands here more often than you do so here strategically you have to fold when I bet”
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