Teaching My Kids To Gamble

My children are so young not all of them are even in school yet. Whether they're old enough for the classroom or not, these curious little buggers do a damned fine job at picking up life hacks outside the formal education system. Mom was at work when one of the kids stumbled across my case of poker chips. Within minutes, we were playing a game. " So the Jack is like an eleven (11)? " " How can an Ace be both like a one (1) and sometimes better than the King? " I took up the role of The House. The Bank. Vegas. But unlike a real dealer or pit boss, I talked them through each of their decisions. The assumptions. The risks. The opportunities. The rewards. I am in many ways a tinkerer. An experimenter. A generalist. A strategic thinker. A forecaster. A non-linear mindset kinda guy. The more I read up on others who have either been labeled as or self-describe in those ways, the more value I place on those traits. As such, it only makes sense that I want t...