Where did you learn to play?

playing with my uncle and his buddies... took a while to learn but eventually i got the hang of it...

I haven't learned to play, yet!!!
But I began on Party Poker 'cause the tournaments I saw on TV were sponsored by PP.

I learnt to play on the raceingpost site. which was part of the victor Chandler network of poker sites.

I was born with all the skills already!!

Learned to play watching my father at family gatherings and poker parties he would have at the house. Some where around the age of 10 or 12 I was even allowed to sit in and play some.

From high school on I rarely went anywhere without a deck.. bars, parties, weddings, funerals. I was always looking for a game. started going to Vegas (and Laughlin) on a regular basis after moving to Arizona. Got my first taste of live casino action at a little strip casino called Silver City (I think) which was across the street from the Stardust. Played a lot at MGM Grand when they opened.

Played some online off and on but I tend to get bored with it. Just started up again at Poker Stars. I much prefer the face-to-face interaction. The best part of playing online is the lil whippersnappers that get all huffy when I don’t play fast enough. They do crack me up.

That’s the short version for any a yall that care to read.

Good luck

my father tach me to play,i like internet but live games are definitely another thing!

Friday night poker night!
I learned at play money games at a buddy's house...Once we moved to real money I learned to drink less beer!

I always loved poker and was really into watching it on TV, just never really knew how to play. So one day I was watching a WSOP event and saw a Bodog commerical. I went and got my laptop and downloaded the software. I read a few help guides on poker and gathered as much data about the game as I could.
I then started playing with Play Money chips, my wife kept asking me what was so fun about playing poker, so she downloaded it as well and we have never stopped since.
Since then I have played in home games, cash games, casinos, tournaments.....you name it!!

I'd been watching poker on TV. There were that really handsome Dane ... and Jesus F. ... and the smiling Australian. And I remembered playing poker when I was a teen, 30 years ago. So I restarted, first with friends, then online.
Because of the low buy ins, I mostly play at Poker Stars, but I feel better at Full Tilt.

Im still learning on pokerstars
cya there

well, i sat at a home game with some relatives, moved onto pokerstars.net to play money and then to fulltilt where i'm now playing for real money. I've only been playing about 4 months, and have a long way to go.

I remember the first time I changed the channel and seen Poker being played on ESPN... I WAS LIKE...OMG.. Poker is now a SPORT???

Poker always intimidated me..

I played for years on MSN Zone...in Spades. When they changed the spades program... I played holdem at their site... OMG didnt know that 23456 beat A2345..I was sooo complaining..

well after a few weeks..i downloaded pokerstars...and been there ever since. I just started playing in the ring games... I do very well in I am NOT tired.

I mostly taught myself...THANK GOODNESS FOR PLAY MONEY!!

My father is an excellent poker player..my mom is horrible! i fall somewhere closer to my fathers abilities.

But now, I seem to place higher in tours then he does.

Thats my story...and I'm sticking to it

I guess I "learned" online with Centrebet Poker.

I love the Live Casino games at Centrebet. So much better with video of the actual dizes, cards, roulette wheel.. Then you kind of get a bit assured that there isn't a computer algorithm making the house harvest your dollars.

LOL

My dad taught me the basics, but I did most of my learning on PokerStars and by watching WSOP on TV.

I learned to play overseas in Kuwait and Iraq. I learned spades first, then we got bored and wanted to play something for money. I pretty much broke even in the long term over there, but we had some crazy nights. $40 buy ins ring games. A lot of guys would come and buy in for as much as $200, then lose it all and leave. A friend of mine made a $1000 in 5 hours one night. Any other military people on here who played over there?

I started learning Hold 'em at local bar games and home games, then watched the first couple of seasons of the WPT over and over on DVD, churned through a few poker strategy blogs and sites, then started playing online

Learned to play stud when I was 8 or 9 with the old man, but now I play mostly hold'em, which I learned to play a few years ago. I recently learned to appreciate the finer points of poker playing and am trying to learn some more advanced skills. Right now I either play cards with my buddies at home, or since I'm in the Navy sitting on the ship in the middle of the ocean with nothing better to do.
I'm still cautious about throwing money into an online poker game, but I'm thinking I will probably make a deposit by the end of the month.

Strange answer but i learned by simply watching poker on TV etc then tried to put into practise and learnt from my mistakes as I continue to do daily.

Haven't been to the sandbox, but I can vouch for the way people play when they are bored with nowhere to go, Most of the time I can make 40-50 bucks an hour playing cards on the ship, and that is $5 buy-in tournament style games. I have never seen 7,2 hit so many times in my life until I started playing on the mess decks.

I got interested watching Holdem on TV, then bought a CD and played on computer. 12 months ago heard you could play with play money and joined Party Poker - got hooked big time and now play regularly at more than 10 sites - freerolls and small $ games with my meagre winnings - but winning more often now so watch out !!!!!

When i was 7or 8 years old, my father played 5 card draw with me and my brother and then there was a very big break. Then i saw the WSOP in TV. Till then i didn´t know HOLD´EM bur i learned it quick cause i knew the rules from 5 caed draw... It was fascinating and i started playing online.

I don't think I have learned to play from any one place. I just play and change my strategy based on what I see happening. I do play at brick and mortar casinos more than online ones. It's a totally different game.

I remember i started to watch the WPT on TV and at 1st i had no idea how it was played but i still watched then i played on iam limit poker and from there i learned the game.

actually, I stared online a year ago, but of course I´m still learning. but, I knew the game.......

i learned at a friends house playing $5 limit, than quarter fifty limit at another friends house. stuck to just those 2 games for a year and tried to get better at it. it's debatable if i improved or got worse.

I started playing poker recently after registering on facebook, some of my friends online invited me in Texas HoldEm Poker...... And i simply got hooked on the stuff....

I learned from books, then playing online freeroll. With the money won, I usually play SitNGo, low Buy-in tournaments and some cash table ($0,10/$0,25) Hold'em NL

miz

I learned from friends. we used to play baseball, 3 and 9s wild,4 gets an extra card. I learned my first game to max out my bets with a A showing and steal pots. My very first poker game I won $30 ....been at it ever since!!

Hey all - just signed up and eager to be a part of the community!

I learned to play Hold'Em over 4 years ago. Learned from watching TV (watching the old WSOP's, back in the days when there weren't 6000 players in the Main Event!). Also learned just by playing for play money online - started out playing on PokerRoom then branched out from there.

Then started playing at family gatherings where I learned even more, especially from my uncle who's a dealer. Now I'm a part-time dealer as well as other members of my family (not at any casino but for fun-nights like corporate parties and such) and have continued to learn through that. It's kinda cool and interesting meeting all the different types of people and players through this biz.

Cheers

i learned how to play poker at home. I won alot of home games but can,t seem to get it going at online poker ......................but i,m working on it

I played 5 card stud forever ago with my Grandma during the summer. Man she kicked my butt on a regular basis. She really taught me alot about patterns and tells when I was really too young to understand but I rely on alot of the stuff she taught me now more than ever.

I'm one of the sad people who learned watching the WSOP a few years ago. I learned more once I got online and played at FTP, but I first learned hold em from TV. I know it's sad but its true!

At first my mother and step father played the ole 5 card draw with me splitting up the change in the house, that started to fiz, lol I didn't play again until I got married and forced my husband to play in a local club promotion (u guessed it he forced me to play too) from there we were invited to the home games and eventually online. Now my husband gets mad because he can't get me to stop!!!!!

On a ship in the Mediterranean in 1983, those Navy guys took me for everything I had.