Comment by tamat
7 hours ago
It´s about normalizing something we think it could lead to problems.
I dont want to romanticize the game in his mind, so when he grows up people ask him to play poker and he sees it as "that nice game we played at home!".
It is a game with very strong connections with gambling. There are thousands of other games without that association which are as rewarding as poker.
park chess players gamble. Going to a chess tournament with a prize pool and paying an entry fee is gambling. In germany magic the gathering tournaments are banned since they are deemed as gambling.
Don't let your kids enter a raffle, then.