Where did you learn to play?

i pretty much just tought myself how to play the game. One day i jus downloaded a poker site and found out the rules of the game!

I'm still learning to play but its going well, you just have to play often with people better then yourself!

my first game of poker was at my old work place there where guys that played it at dinner time and i used to watch them they asked me if i wanted to play so i said ok i left the table with £80 so i was hooked from then and the hits just keep on coming

I think your always learning...especially live games in person...i started 6 years ago playing 5 card with my friends..haha those were the days...now I play higher limit tables...my favorite is omaha hi/lo

I tought myself how to play poker, as I did crib and euchre.

(really good euchre player) lol

One day I was wonderin' where my bf was, and he was in the comp room so i go in there and ask what he was doin' he say's playin' poker im like oh okay so stayed for a few mins watched, then I got up and said this is retarded, (had no clue what was goin' on) so I left. woke up late night and he was still there, he finally went to bed, so I log on to Ultimatebet and see what was keepin' him up all night, so I sit down at a play chip table and watched and then looked up how to play, and then a few weeks later.. playin' in point tourneys at Ultimatebet finishin' top 20, and my bf and i would have competions who can make the most play chips in 2hours,. we did that for a while. Anyways Long story short,. I tought myself how to play poker by the guidelines Ultimatebet has.

I just started playing this year online and with my freinds. I think its definently tougher to play with people in front of you and not in front of the computer.

Started by watching it on tv to understand how the game was played. Played a couple of games with some friends and family. Then progressed to online, first site was FullTilt.

i started playing online(play money) then found local live games now i play every week and cant get enough of it.....

i learned to play with my friends when i was 14 we were playing for real money and i loset fifty bucks before i made 200

very first experience was when i was about 10. About a year ago i played a lil bit of hold'em from time to time. After about 4 monthes into this summer, i've really started to play poker with a serious meaning. Now i sit in front of computer playing in freerolls as practice for real tourneys where i have to buy in.

My friends taught me the rules of holdem a few years ago, but i learned to more advanced strategies from books by pros, such as doyle brunson, hellmuth, harrington and david skalantsky(however you spell it).etc. All amazing books

I got into it watching it on tv and then I read and learn the hands and ranks of the cards and I am still learning as I play.

I learned to play poker when I was a kid. Family get togethers we would play your typical draw, stud, and no peeky games. I wasnt introduced to holdem until last year and learned online at party poker.

Chiropractic school of all things. Breaks between classes and lunch hour there was always a game going on in the caffateria. We then moved to late night gambling sessions. We play all kinds of games but now have settled in hold'em and omaha.

I started cuz I LOVE gambling!! I went to Vegas last year. Didn't know jack about poker. I played only blackjack...But started watching some of it on TV (World poker tour) with my main man Daniel Nugraneau (whatever) and started liking it. So read a couple of books and started playing on pokerstars. Which by the way sucks!

Then slowly got addicted! One good thing, I've never lost more than I can afford!
Now I play poker regularly, and every day learn something new.

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I owuld start with home games than move onto online and when you are finally ready go to the casio and rake in the big bucks

playing real games with friends, then jetset poker play money to get online experience, but i only really started learning with real money, cause people do play differently with it

a friend of me thaught me to play poker

tip: begin with freerolls and you'll learn everything you need to know

I learned from watching the wsop episodes on espn, then proceeded to buy Super System/ Small Stakes Hold'em / Dan harrington Hold'em / Phil Hellmuth / and Phil Gordon Books.

I learned poker from my family. We had a friend who we would visit and it would always end with the entire family playing various poker games. It was a lot of fun, and the kids always won as the adults just played out their hands.

Many years later, I picked up Hold'Em and spent quite a bit of time at the B&Ms losing money until I started playing play money at pokerstars...quite a journey

I learned to play at 12 ears old with my parents

Hi!

I also learnt to play online. My dad showed me how.

Love.

well i grew up playing spades and to me playing poker came kinda easy. My first poker games was 5 card draw and 7 stud. Right know though my thing is holdem and omaha h/l

I learned it from manual on betandwin.com, thats all :-)

I learned in high school playing with my buddies. Good ol penny poker and we played all types and versions it seems- the good ol days!

I learnt from a small bonus magasine inside PC Format (Online Gambler) and then logged onto pokerroom.com to try out play money Limit Hold'em. All went from there.

Some friends of mine had become involved in poker and were doing quite well, and they'd been trying to convince me for some time to join them. After putting it off for awhile, I watched a couple of poker shows on TV just to see the basic Hold 'Em game play, then did a few practice games on the computer and played a couple of hands with a friend in a hotel room while on vacation.

The next week I played my first in-person tournament at a local casino. I had stellar luck and made it to the final table as the chip leader (directly taking out my friend along the way - minor guilt pangs there), but quickly lost it all and finished just out of the money.

I've been playing a few low-stakes ring games and tourneys online and still have a lot to learn, but my goal is to become a good player. From what I understand, mastery of the game is a lifelong, ever-evolving process.

I started in high school, playing with my friends on real money.

i learned to play by watching late night poker on TV. Then I read some books like supersystem 2 etc then i got myself hooked up with some poker lessons online from holdemcoach.co.uk. this all made me into a winning player!

I learned to play online and from my fiancee. He is a great teacher

I tought myself how to play poker, by seein' what was keepin' my bf up all hours of the night. so I took a look see and kicked him off the computer and read the tutorial that Ultimatebet has on their site and looked at hand rankin's and took it off from there played sit n go's and at the penny tables. Playin' now for 2years

I started playing for pennies with my brother and the neighbor kids from across the dirt road from our house. Seven card stud (Dr. Pepper style! --- 10's, 2's, 4's wild); Seven stud low hole card wild, 7 card no peekie night baseball--you name it, we played it and the more wild cards the better. 10 years later I played in my first casino game and got my wild-card-reared butt kicked by a bunch of rocks who must have been salivating when I sat down.

Now, years later I scratch my head wondering how I survived for so long with out knowing diddly squat about the game I loved. I am no pro or even a semi expert but I do manage to eek out a positive cash flow from the low limit games I play and have even won a few cheap tournaments.

I am sure that a few years from now I will probably look back on the present and wonder how I survived playing as badly as I do now!

I started playing poker at the last Easternn
I was taking part to a disscusion on a chat about betting and some guys said they are playing poker on a poker soft and i said myself : "Why shouldn`t i try this new thing?".After this i started to search more infos about poker and now i think i am a profesional in this domaine

my mom taught me at 5 with pennies, then i saw rounders as a teen and realized how serious the whole thing was - could finally go to the casinos around here at 18 which is when my friends started getting into it and it evolved from there....new to the online aspect of it all, which is a whole new dynamic because i'm a very body language type person....but i'm getting better at this not seeing the person thing with this forum and its disection of the game

watch tv. it helps