In British Columbia today, opportunities for gambling by children are growing with the rise of Internet wagering, cable TV poker and handheld computer games. But young people barely understand the serious risks involved, say experts.

DO you think we are raising gamblers? read the full article here on this issue:

ARE WE RAISING GAMBLERS?

OMG!!! EXPERTS SAID IT.

It must be true.

Personally the answer to the question is yes as my 7 year old daughter is an excellent NL player.

Who cares as long as they win? ^_^

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A good education is expensive but ignorance costs more.

When my 3 and 6 year olds want to watch Rounders every night to go to bed to instead of cartoons, and the WSOP re-runs are more popular than spongebob, maybe there is something to be said.... My brother in law has a nice holdem table and we play once a week and my 3 year old almost has the hand rankings down!!!

I will only be impressed when he looks up at goes "Mommy, You are the rake of life"

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i really need to hear a little toddler go
"FUCK!!!! RIVER!"

Fairly obvious answer.... you need to raise (and possibly re-raise) gamblers for value....

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See me playing $10/$20NL like it was play money

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...405&q=xxdemexx

Doberman: "but Sarge, isn't poker gambling and just luck?"
Sgt. Bilko:" not the way I play it"

When negronu (spelled it wrong) was promoting stacked i think his video game called they had quailifers to play against him and a 12 year old made it, not sure if he knew what he was doing or got lucky

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If there wern't luck involed i guess id win everyone

ur sons like me...

whenever my dad would go to his buddys...when i was a little kid..half the time instead of watching batman or ninja turtles...id love to watch them gamble. and of course my dad would rake in their money...mwahaahha

Trust me, he's heard it!!! And the little shit has rivered me a few times just playing around, he loves it when he beats dad and gets all the chips!

What's even better is with absolutely NO prompting at all is anytime we're watching poker and Phil Helmuth is playing and my 5 year old says dad, "theres the guy that's a baby again huh dad" Pretty bad when even a 5 year old watching Phil on the telly knows he's a baby!!