My father and Poker Stars. OT.

TripleH68 · #1 05-31-2006, 08:13 PM

So my father knows I play poker online. He has periodically given me crap about it for a couple years while he plays ring games and tournaments for fun on some computer game(Hoyle Casino I think). He is retired from his job. And he is an old time poker player. Five card stud, Chicago, etc. Hold'em is pretty new to him.

This past weekend we were up at the lake and my mother just bought a laptop computer for the cabin a couple months ago. My dad starts asking me to set him up online to play. So I download PS, set him up an account and transfer him $25. I opened up a .10/.20 table for him and got him going. Within five minutes he is acting insulted that I would start him off playing for dimes. Then he is complaining that it is 'only a dime' so everybody calls. See where this is going? Within a half hour he is at .25/.50. That night he quit with about $16 left. I peered over his shoulder a couple times as he was limping in EP with 53s and A5o and such.

So I am back home now and he calls today to say he busted out and he wants to know how to put more money into Stars. First of all I am not giving you his screename you damn leech. But do I help him with how to send more $$$?

btw, momma is not happy. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Guruman · #2 05-31-2006, 08:17 PM

xfer the $$. he's your father and you know better than to let him ruin your retirement. How much bullsht crap did he indulge you with as you were growing up?

besides, I'd lay fair odds that pure shame would keep him from asking you to reload him when he busts out again. (at least for a while)

Stoo_Pot · #3 05-31-2006, 08:20 PM

Let him deposit his own money if he wants to continue. I think lending himyour copy of SSHE would have more value than transferring $$

Eeegah · #4 05-31-2006, 08:29 PM

Get him to read a beginner's hold'em book before giving him any more money. GSIH, ITHE, LLHE whatever it's up to you but just get him reading first. Impress upon him how much bookwork getting good at poker actuall is (ie, he should be spending far more time studying than playing at this point).

I think you'd know by now whether or not your dad is foolish enough to mismanage his retirement on poker. Hell he made it to retirement age with enough of a nest age, that should tell you something.

MrWookie · #5 05-31-2006, 08:36 PM

Yeah, I like that play, Eeegah. Say you'll give him $25-$50 when he finishes reading a book so he doesn't have to fart around w/ Neteller.

Hielko · #6 05-31-2006, 08:39 PM

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Within five minutes he is acting insulted that I would start him off playing for dimes.

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Don't be cheap and transfer him a proper roll from something like 100/200.

TripleH68 · #7 05-31-2006, 08:45 PM

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Get him to read a beginner's hold'em book before giving him any more money.

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This is great advice. And the correct answer. However,

The old man is stubborn. Says he doesn't need to read any books. He has been playing poker longer than I have been alive. Etc. It is that role reversal phenomenon. Like I am now the father and he has become the son. Strange but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and thought maybe a few funny stories might emerge.

OMG. He just called me while I was writing this and said "yeah I was thinking about the poker thing and couldn't you just transfer me some more money and then I could pay you back?" I mentioned that hold'em is really a variation of poker and maybe I could loan him a couple books to help him get started...his reply was "well I have watched enough on TV to know how to play and I don't really want to read any books. That's alright."

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh. I have become the father. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

Oh and then he says "just transfer me like a thousand or so." <joke>

Gib · #8 05-31-2006, 08:53 PM

How would he go with stud online?

bozlax · #9 05-31-2006, 09:04 PM

I'm on the fence between "set him up" and "cheap bastard." So, my suggestion is to throw him another $50, along with some gentle, likely backhanded, bankroll-management advice.

fwiw, I don't think it's your place to be:

a. keeping an eye on your parents' finances;
2) keeping an eye on your parents' relationship; or
III. bank-rolling your dad.

I also think you can give your dad a little credit for being more than an average Party Fish. If you're worried about it, remember that you'll be talking to him about it 400 times a week for the rest of his life; if you have any capacity at all for hand-reading, you're going to have an idea pretty quickly when he gets in over his head.

Stoo_Pot · #10 05-31-2006, 09:10 PM

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Get him to read a beginner's hold'em book before giving him any more money.

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This is great advice. And the correct answer. However,

The old man is stubborn. Says he doesn't need to read any books. He has been playing poker longer than I have been alive. Etc. It is that role reversal phenomenon. Like I am now the father and he has become the son. Strange but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and thought maybe a few funny stories might emerge.

OMG. He just called me while I was writing this and said "yeah I was thinking about the poker thing and couldn't you just transfer me some more money and then I could pay you back?" I mentioned that hold'em is really a variation of poker and maybe I could loan him a couple books to help him get started...his reply was "well I have watched enough on TV to know how to play and I don't really want to read any books. That's alright."

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh. I have become the father. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

Oh and then he says "just transfer me like a thousand or so." <joke>

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LoL.

You could try leaving a beginner's book on the computer desk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]