Where did you learn to play?

well i learned to play with my grand pa when i was real young. i was like 5 when i would visit and we played all the time. the good ol days.

I started playing after watching the WPT and WSOP about six years ago. I'm going to Vegas for the first time in August.

First learned 5card draw on a naked ladies deck of cards at my grandfathers. Saw rounders one time and read and watched everything I could get my hands on about hold'em omaha came later when i learned that fewer people new how to play therefore making it easier to take their money

Wow cant believe how young u all are.

I learned to play in the college cafeteria (never took any classes) where we cleaned the fish w games like stud, hi lo (declare), draw and guts.

That was over 30 years ago.

Still winning, but you holdem TV kids gave me a bit of a learning curve.

I learn texas hold'em online from a poker site called dynamite poker a few years back

I played off and on with friends and such, but never really got into it until an old boss of mine showed me party poker and thrilled me with his ability to turn a $10 dollar sng into $50 bucks in a matter of minutes, I started paying half the buy ins and splitting the profits, eventually I started playing on my own and have been happily addicted since.

I was doing researching with a professor and one day we went to his house for dinner. and after that, he suggest we play some poker game and this is how I learn to play poker.

Ive been playing cards all my life practically, as a kid i played brag and other games with grandparents, aunts and uncles for pennies. As I got older I played stud and other games with friends and work collegues. As for Holdem I started playing about 4-5 years ago after watching it on TV, soon after I started playing online.

that is how i learned how to play ans some home games and i use to play it like it was poker and i learned that it was not now i think i play better then when i started and i do win sometimes not a bunch but it it is good feeling when you win your money back

A couple of years ago I tuned in to Celebrity Poker Showdown with Phil Gordon. Watched a couple of episodes and found myself playing online at Tilt for playmoney chips and 900 seat freerolls.

Played with buddies a few years ago then started playing online a bit. Haven't done to well but haven't done to bad either. I'm not busto yet, and haven't had to reload.

first started playing for beer caps in the dorms!!! then it went online then to 4-5 games a week at bars and other places through out cincy. then i quit for a while b/c i was addicted lol now i just play here and there online and in home games that dont run me a 200 beans to sit down.

My friends 'taught' me how to play.. and by that I mean that they showed me the basics, and then took my money until I learned how to play

I was taught by my mates in high school, and since then i played through college and online to fine-tune my game

I have never played live. All of my experience is online. I don't have the guts to put big money in. I don't think I would have a good poker face.....lol. Online is great though. Goodluck in the live games and get into the WSOP

i fell into the whole craze when poker got huge, i already had an idea but i never played online. i started playing with my buddies and they turned me onto pokerhost in which there were great freerolls to build bankrolls and the option to turn your play money into real money on sit n go tourneys. thats how it all started and i been hooked ever since

started with some friends and now i am trying out the online pokerrooms

I learned to play in Boone North Carolina at teh local VFW. They sponsored my boyfriends dart tournaments, which would last 9 hrs, in the back room was a bunch of old guys playing ten dollar ring games, and they invited me to play on sundays, I didn't win for three months straight and then a little after that. Then it was on!

I learnt to play poka @ the bikesicle,lol, bicycle club casino in bell gardens, ca. Matter of factly,lol,fact, I was only 17, I think it was because I use to be cute, or maybe coz I had an older high rolling friend , i mean i went with my uncle, yaeh!!
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No but seriously, learned there. And i was 16.

I actually learned to play by watching on TV... There was nothing I usually watched on tv one day, and i ended up watching poker, and ever since then.......

i started by watching HE on the travel channel for about a year. then don't laugh i played on yahoo, play money. then i went to poker room. and finally FT and pokerstars, those are my favorites, i tried a couple others, but between full tilt and pokerstars, i stay pretty busy.

Everest poker is hosting this years wsop..

also i started playing by playing online.......i started at party poker and once they banned u.s. players i went to full tilt and Pokerstars and now i pl.ay on a bunch of sites......i also love to play live, i go to the casino boat every now and then and play in a home game most weeks. anyway, live and online are two different worlds and i love trying to hone my game on both sides of the felt. gl and play on.

My Uncle and Cousin started playing in tournaments. They always talked about holdem and how much fun it was. After hearing their excitement for the game, I decided to look at tutorials online. It wasn't long after that I incorporated pot odds and outs etc. into my playing style.

learned from TV then improved my game with Dan Sklansky's books

I learned to play from my grandfather when i was 5 and have loved it ever since.

i'm learned playing online PokerProfessor and Titanpoker. Also I started watching the tourneys on TV

I learnt from watching TV..oringinally..but from there..I learnt from many
hours of constantly playing..I never read a book..In the last 4 years..I seen as many flops as anyone in the world.

I learned in 5 dollar tourneys in my dorm room passing around a box of wine
if that's not the most effective place to play and be taight, by wise poker scholars, well, then i don't know what is

Smoke filled room years ago. My first online site was fulltilt.



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i learn in pokerstrategy.com

I learned when I was a little kid. Played with a few of my friends and some old guys in the neighborhood. We played nothing but stud and draw back then. I made a ton of money playing drunks as a teenager. Didn't learn how to play Hold 'em until just a few years ago...learned from people I met online but we played live. I learned Omaha & Razz on full tilt and 2/7 triple draw on Pokerstars.

My friends taught me to play when I was in grade 9 and then I started playing online and have been playing ever since

i watched my dad play, watched tv, read poker books, and play on ft to learn how to play.

I started really young. Gambling came about when I was 15 first off with Rummy and then progressed into poker. We all had jobs in high school so every weekend we would play poker till the sun came up. This was back in the 80s before holdem was so popular. We played a lot of variations ofstud.