Is Poker, Good For Kids?

An adult that allows a kid to play poker is failing in a duty they owe the child. Parents need to engender good character in the child, letting a child learn gambling, even if not for money, is harmful to the well-being of the child all the best urban

It depends on the child behaviour, for me I don't allow them to play poker because I have a nephew playing poker on facebook, allot of adult playing pokers there speak trash talks, and I notice one time when we played together he speaks like those trash talk americans. It was disappointing how kids saw other adults that speaks like that.

Poker might be tough for kids to play.They would need to understand luck and bluffing. There are free poker games online for adults, but there are too many diots playing who will bet all there chips on one hand knowing they aren't losing real money and then the game gives them more chips.

Well, I've known how to play poker since I was a child because I had a great-aunt that taught my cousins and myself how to play. And, I really don't think that there is anything that is wrong with children knowing how to play poker. With that said, I do think that if children are going to be taught how to play, they also need to be taught to be responsible in the way that they play the game because at some point, money will inevitably become involved.

I see nothing wrong with it. Poker is popular in gambling, but so are horses and many other things, and that doesn't mean they have to be bad in any way. Poker is good as I see it.

no matter how many nice words we talk about poker which is still a gambling game,so we need to let kids know what is gambling, how to gambling, how to gambling properly,the most important thing is dont make kids think that they can become rich by gambling. anyway playing poker game can help kids develop their IQ,and sometimes playing poker just same as how to face their life

I myself growing up leaned to play poker and I used candy instead of chips. I think that poker can be made into a fun learning game for kids of a certain age just so long as you don't use money and you make it fair at the end. We used to bet with candy but at the end divide it all up evenly so everyone got goodies.

I believe there are 2 sides to poker, playing cards & gambling... When playing cards, there are a lot of strategies involved... You lern how to observe people & make decisions based on it... I would never play same hands the same against different people... It does have an elements of psychology involved... Then there's gambling... If you're going into a pot with trash hands hoping you can out- flop, out-draw or river out someone, then that's gambling... It doesn't matter what you're betting... It's playing with something of a value... Some people do get lucky once in a while... But nature of the game poker is based on mathematic probability... People who get lucky, given the long enough time, will eventually lose... In that sense, the Mae also teaches us patience...

I do not think that it is bad for children to learn how to play poker. In fact, I do not think that it is bad for them to learn how to do it with money, either, although I realize I am in the minority here ... at least on this discussion. When I was younger, I learned how to play poker with my family. We each had a certain number of pennies that we started with, and we could bet up to a certain amount (I think it was five pennies) per hand. It not only taught us the cards and probability, although we were not consciously learning these things, but it also helped with counting and mathematics problem solving. Of course, at the end of the game we had to give back all the money and were not allowed to keep it, but that really was not the focus and point of the game.

If children are taaught to play the game of poker all in fun, then i see no reason that it can not be done. Teaching children to gamble with money at a young age may just bring on problems that can spin out of control. You have to think of the consequences of all of your actions when it comes to impressionable children and games of chance.

Poker is good for not only kids but also adults.By playing poker,people can improve their creativity ,their communicating skills,etc.

Interest in plays related to gambling always affects interest to creativity of all. So if children are given details of these type of plays, they would try it in future and get connected with actual money based plays. It is better not to encourage children in such plays.

Poker teaches people that gambling is okay and it lose a lot of people's relationships with friends and family because of the money lose. For a lot of them it started out as an innocent game of no money so I don't think little kids should play it at all. It's more of an adult thing and you don't want to teach kids that it's hood to gamble.

I think poker is just a game..but for a kid..it is bad, because this game so close with gambling

I see you write tons of threads per day! My compliments! I do not have tons of ideas of writing, well everyone has their own talent. Coming to the discourse of poker, I think it is fair to teach kids to play poker, but on one condition. You should never, ever do and say these guys understand that you can win some money. This would encourage gambling to play what I believe is very counterproductive. In fact more than that, might even become a pathology of the disease by gambling.

I believe that all children play cards with the family during the christmas holidays! With no money involved of course. I am not sure about poker, I would prefer to teach them simpler games that can not be played with money in the future. But it sounds fine for me as long as they are only combined with Christmas Eve or the New Year's Eve, and they don't play regularly.