Quote from: Oasisman on Today at 11:55:47 AM

Quote from: defc0de on Today at 11:24:49 AM

I think it depends upon the environment/upbringing of the person and his tenacity to play around with a highly speculative game. I've known some kids here in our country (Philippines) as young as 12-13 years old to gamble against adults, especially those who were born in the slum areas. They are usually children of gamblers as well, and they learn at an early age how to play against the psychology of an adult in a game in order to earn a bit of cash.

Well, that's illegal of course, and that's not a perfect age bracket for someone to gamble. For sure these kids are doing illegal stuff as well like stealing money from their parents or worse from another person.
I have seen children like these as well, and they are stubborn as hell. The least you can do is to report this to the authorities before anything worse will happen.

We might think it’s way too early to think about children and gambling. Nevertheless the legal age for gambling on the pokies or other gambling joints is 18 years. Early exposure to gambling at a very teenage age stage up some many problems, and these children might be at greater risk of developing even bigger gambling problems if he does a lot of gambling or has a big win early in life and maybe has a positive attitude towards gambling – for example, he thinks that winning a big lottery jackpot is common, or that his peers will think he’s cool if he gambles.