I’m interested to see if there is a betting protocol or other way to play poker with a mixed group of adults and children such that the adults are playing for real money but the kids are playing with just chips?
I had thought to do side pots, but I don’t think that works for raising or folding. Is there a way this can be done?
Everyone plays with chips.
Yes, everyone chips, but the adults want to play for money. So i’m looking for way to play together when one group plays with chips and the other plays with money. Not sure if that’s possible.
How about this?
All adults chip in an amount (say, X bucks) for chips, which are distributed to the kids.
At the end, kids chips are collected, and if they total less than $X, the difference is taken proportionally from the chips of the adults (assuming that they had same buy in).
If they total more than $X, they could be distributed proportionally to the adults (but it would be nicer to use that money to buy them soda or pizza 
).
Maybe a better way to express it is:
Have all the playing adults collectively stake the group of kids at the beginning and share the kids’ collective winnings (or losses) at the end.
Just give the kids some money to bet with. Let them keep anything they win.
That is an option, as well as staking them, though I’m not sure that would foster a sense of appreciation when there is no real risk to them though. My primary motivation was to not exclude them from a group activity which kind of goes away if they lose their stake right away.
Then you need a different group activity, maybe without gambling. Play UNO, or maybe try Carcassonne.
Maybe avoid ‘Cards Against Humanity’. 
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How old? You could have a separate kid’s pot and different chips (to help differentiate), but not for betting so much but for anti’ing a chip per play, perhaps an additional per draw, but always 1 chip for them per play or game.
Not sure yet I understand the parameters. If a kid wins, does he win money, or are all kids excluded from capturing any of the adult stake?
At the start, each adult antes and gets blue chips, kids do not ante and get white chips. Chip colors are of equal value. At the end of the game, all blue chips held by kids re distributed to the adults in proportion to any white chips held by each adult. Adults then cash in their blue chips.
For example, the adults have respectively 7, 10 and 23 white chips, a total of 40. The kids have 12 blue chiips. The adults would get 3/10 of a blue chip for each white chip they won (rounded off), or respectively 2, 3 and 7 blue chips.
And for the love of God, no stripping.
The idea is that the kids aren’t at risk, and can’t win money. At this age, they just like to gather the chips. We could do some side prize that the kid with the most gets a treat, but really all the kids would get it. It’s mostly just for pride for them.
There will be hands where a kid will probably win. I’m just not sure how that could work.
Don’t the kids have any money? My family has played poker together for as long as I can remember and we always anted up our change collections. Even if it’s just pennies.
And that’s totally cool too, except the grown ups play for higher stakes. My initial thought was that this type of mixed play wasn’t viable and the best idea so far is staking them. Oddly enough searching around its not a popular topic
How about a challenging game suitable for both adults and children where all the players must co-operate to win?
This is the next game I wanna buy for my family.
“Welcome to the real world, Jenny, or as we grownups say, loooooooser.”
“But daddy, gramma gave me that money so I could go to college one day!”
Stake them and let them play to win. If they win they keep the difference.
Poker as a game only works if you have something to win or lose. The kids in this scenario cannot “lose” in the sense of walking away with mess money than they started with but they can “lose” in the sense of not making money they could have. So they have a stake in the game and a reason to learn the game and try to win.