I'm sitting here watching a re-run of the 2009 World Series of Poker final table with my 9 year-old son Aaron. He's talking strategy and rooting for his favorite player, Phil Ivey. It makes me think about how much my son likes poker and how good he is and how much better he's going to be.
I walked into my living room a few months ago and he was at the coffee table with some poker chips and a deck of cards. He was playing 8 hands of Texas Holdem by himself. He was the dealer and all of the players, and he knew which hands were winning and which hands were folding.
I set him up to play online at one of the major online poker sites where he can play poker for fun (and for free). You're supposed to be 18 to play on those sites, but I'm over 18 and I'm letting him play. Usually, he gets on there, starts with $1,000 and ends with anywhere from $11,000 to over $30,000. He's playing against adults and he's handing them their butts and making them say thank you.
One day, he was home sick from school and I stayed home with him. I just got finished watching the movie, "21" a couple of days earlier and I thought I would learn how to count cards in Blackjack. I eventually figured it out, then I decided to teach Aaron to do it. He has a huge brain and I wasn't surprised that he learned how to count cards in Blackjack in about 30 minutes. After I taught him, he counted a whole deck of cards 5 times with zero errors.
Anyways, with all of that said, here we are watching the 2009 World Series of Poker and I asked him how much money he was going to win in Poker when he grows up. His answer was, "$10 Million". I believe him.
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