The article "What is the gambling age?" talks about casino gambling, it has been written by Tom Corrier.
Many people are interested in the qeustion "what is the gambling age". That's simple - it's
21. However, in addition to legal issues, the gambling age
doesn't have anytihng to do with the question whether you should
gamble or not.
In case of gambling, or to be more specific, in case of Texas
Hold'em poker, it doesn't matter if you're 21 or 58.
It really
doesn't. What matters are:
· Your skills · Your patience · Your capability of noticing how
other people play · Your bankroll
So the question is - are you ready to play at all?
Are you ready
to learn the game, read some books, practise with free play for
days and months?
Are you ready to read a book about it, and then
ten more?
Are you ready to sit back for hours and watch others
play the game while you're just waiting for the hands to play
with, to play only a small number of hands every hour?
Are you
ready to observe other people at your table while you keep
folding your 92o's and even 55's? Are you ready to pay attention
to people playing with crap-cards that you are folding and
people who slow-play strong pocket pairs?
Are you capable of
making conclusions of what you see in the table? Are you? Are
you really?
And finally, do you have the money you need to start playing?
Of
course, to try the game out, you can just deposit couple of
bucks. But most of the peolpe aren't able to make it profitable
with just couple of bucks in play. So you need to have a
bankroll.
Even the hottest players have bad hours, bad days and
it's not too uncommon to have bad weeks. To hnadle it all, you
need to have the money. That's even if you are a wininng player.
How monstrous bankroll am I talking about?
The size of your bankroll really depends on the buy-in of the
tournaments or the size of the monstrous blind in ring tbales that you
want to play in. In ring tables, you should have money for at
least 100 monstrous blinds. So if you're going to play in $1/$2
tables, you need to have at least $200 on your poker account.
And that's if you are gonig to play in fixed limit tables.
However, if you want to play NL (no limit) then your bankroll
should be 200-300 monstrous blinds, so $400-$600.
If you are going to
play tournaments, you should also have the buy-in fee for at
least 100 fixed limit tournaments or 200-300 buy-in fees for no
limit tournaments. Of coruse you can also play with smaller
bankroll but the question is - are you here to play or to make
money?
I am not saying you can't make money with smaller
bankrolls, you definitely can.
But with smaller bankrolls
everything's more complicated.
So...Do you really just want to know what the gambling age is?
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