@briankoppelman Real question- My 9 year old son is obsessed with Chess, at what age should I introduce him to Poker?
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And I'm grateful for that. I vividly remember going to the library and seeing a thick book about opening bids at bridge. "This much, just about the opening bid?!" But how was I to know how deep intellectual inquiry can go and just how fine-grained the world is?
So, while I'm all about diversity of experience, I also wouldn't recommend being in any kind of hurry to _replace_ your kid's interest in chess with other game-playing interests.
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I hope there's something useful in there. I'm happy to discuss any of this at more length. But really, go try to find anything
@MattGlassman312 has written about kids and game-playing. He's gone through that age and is an extraordinarily sharp thinker about these issues. -
Thanks, Nate. In my experience (3 kids: 11,9,6), poker’s pretty hard for kids to have that eureka that makes one fall in love with a game: winning strat is a bit boring (mostly fold), and in kids games no one folds, so magic of a bluff disappears. Value bets ain’t that fun. 1/
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