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Re:Teach your kids poker, not chess by jnwatson on Saturday May 21, 2022 @07:29AM (#31456972)
You’d be surprised how boring it gets at a poker table when you don’t get good cards for a hour. Folks get bored and play suboptimally.

Part of what poker teaches is patience.

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Re:Teach your kids poker, not chess by matwood on Saturday May 21, 2022 @08:01AM (#31457136)
Yep, boredom is why I quit playing poker in casinos. I'm usually at a casino with friends to have a good time, but winning poker requires folding the large majority of hands [1], and it's just not fun. Craps with friends on the other hand, but I digress...

Also, very different than small poker games with friends where the point is hanging out and 'gambling' a bit.

[1] Tournament style is different from an open ended game.

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Re:Teach your kids poker, not chess by Tyr42 on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:35AM (#31457759)
This is why David Sirlin made a poker variant which is fun to play at the dining room table

https://www.sirlin.net/articles/designing-pandante

And he did so by making more hands good so you don't want to fold all the time

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