Bankrolling 17 year old kid

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And also, someone who has been playing professional as long as you say you have, why would you need to come to a forum to ask which books to read? I also would think that you could teach him poker faster and easier than he can learn from a book.

I know you played LIMIT, but if you played all of those years, you surely have an excellent poker sense. I learned NL shortly after going pro as a LIMIT player, read LGG, and picked it up with little effort.

While I don't doubt your story about wanting your kid to learn poker, I doubt that you state what you say you are. And I also find it hard to believe that you never picked up a book, never learned other forms of poker, and never splashed around in tournaments.

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Self-study fits very well with the kid's academic nature. I could teach him, but I'd rather outsource that stuff to guys like Sklansky, Harrington, Mehta, Miller, and others. He will learn much faster and more thoroughly if he just went straight to the books, and given time to play in real time.

As to me, of course I dabbled in other forms of poker. I taught myself 8 or better, 7 card stud, and played in some tournaments. And I have read many poker books. In fact, my main copy of TOP is still titled "Winning Poker". But, as I said, self-study, without my biases, is better suited for the kid's academic nature.

I started this thread to get other perspectives. Thanks to some of the responses here, I've actually changed my mind as to what books to read and in what order they ideally should be read. TOP seems to be crucial and it therefore should come in first. PNL and Largay seem to be interchangeable but still must reading. I already bought the audio version of the Green Book and the DVD of Final Table Poker to turn this thing into a multi-media experience. I'm still considering purchasing the audio version of Greenstein's book. And I've just ordered the Poker MBA which would be a good way to metaphorically connect poker with the kid's major in business management and finance.