Where did you learn to play?

i learned from watching tv. then went to playing local freerole turnys. then turny director. then to live turnys at casino. then online.

started online and luv it

Interesting question!
Most of us are still learning this game!When I saw this game on TV a few years ago,I told myself "This is easy!" Then I was start to play online last year and I realize -"isn't that easy".
When I played live,at the table,I realize that I don't know nothing!!!
For me this is a lifetime learning game!

I started to watch poker on TV. You know the WPT tours where there is no good player and loser commentators. I thought it was fun and started to play and now i'm prety good at it. I won about 200$ at school and about 50$ on freerolls. But online poker doesnt define your talent as a poker player as it is really unfair.

Online!!!! Well that is where I started and like most new players, I figured going all in every hand was the way to go. You learn the hard way quickly!!!!

But the best way to learn is to watch other people play. I have spent hours just watching the replays on Pokerstars. They are a great learning tool.

I learned basically from watching poker in 04. It just came to me and the first time i played was at Card shop.. i lost, but amazingly i knew what i was doing. Since then I have just been a natural. I wish i could learn other things faster. lol. GL!

the old fashioned way.....with all the boys from work on a friday nite.........if you got caught bluffing you never lived it down.....you know just like online poker

My hubby taought me to play about 4 years ago. Then we started playing at friends house like every other night until we discovered Full Tilt. We played about a year with play money until we got the guts to deposit real cash. Ohhh boy and then i was "hooked"..lol...About 2 years after I learned how to play i tried my first live limit table...omg I was sooo scared...but it went good and poker has become a huge part of my life.
Btw, I started playing on FT because that was the only big site with a software for Mac computer, until a few months back Pokerstars finally fixed up their Mac version. Now I'm palying on both!

used to play nickle/dime poker with friends back in H.S. Didn't play for years until my son (10 and living with his mom) introduced me to P.S. and Texas Holdem. He now plays with us in our friday night neighborhood games.

I learned to play from some friends of m ine. we play every weekend and now i usually take em out lol. i think its funny when they still try and gimme tips yet i not rock lol

I learned watching on espn, after a while I started to understand the rules, then I played some live games with some friends and after that I moved to online poker lol
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btw very nice topic

i begin in pokerstrategy, then i registred in over 50 pokerrooms and play and play - my money is out - and now i begin play freerolls for little money

I started play in my father poker group when i was 9. At 11 farther told me i was playing with my own money and have been ever since.

Been fooling around with play money and threw a few dollars away at different sites. So now am going to try and actually play.

I originally learned with my grandmother and cousin when we were like 5 or 6. lol
Then lately I have learned advanced techniques (so I think lol) online.
I play tons of poker online, but for some reason I still like live better.

i ended up learning how to play online, and when I started I sucked like everyone else. lol gl on the felts

i learned to play poker at fulltilt on play money games.. but i found out about their freeroll.. and able to win and raised real dollar... were i first experienced to play real poker games...

Learned from my grandfather many years ago.He told me if you play you play to win.Lost alot of pennies to him lol.

I actually began playing about 5 yrs. ago with some buddies and had never seen a wsop event on tv. After I began playing, I started watching these wsop events on tv and really started understanding the game more. But once I started playing online, i read through all kind of tutorials from pros while playing which has really helped my game.

i start learning with viedopoker and playing with friends

long story short.. i grew up in a town that has 108 bars with a population of roughly 40000. Saw a lot of fights.. played a lot of pool...been in alot of fights... got married ... stopped fighting ..stopped goin to the bar..started to play poker.... seemed like a much more peaceful way to make a buck(Got in a lot of those fights over hustling a pool game lol).....been running ever since...i guess my earlist memory has to be playing 5 card draw on the bus for lunch money lol

I began playing 2 yrs. ago online after having wtached games on TV
I did not really followed some coaching or reading process but mainly learned from experience playing on internet

I began playing poker with my highschool friends in some home games. After that i started online at pitbullpoker, than at other numerous sites. Great thing for me was watching the Eurosport poker tours and thats how i got into the game.

I also learned to play online. When I lived in the States, 7-card stud was the game, and that's what I played in the casinos. Holdem became THE game after I moved back home (Cyprus) and I started playing on PartyPoker.

mh...I don't know exactly, but I think I learned it from poker school (Eddy Scharf). TV

well i learnt d game by after watching d movie lucky you starting drew barrymore.tats how i got into d game n den i also started playing online.often play with frens 4 real money too..now i hav got very addicted 2 playin poker dat i play everyday atleast for 2 hrs.

I saw the WPT and started to get an interest for the game. But those times were economically rough for me and just stuck to watching it on TV for about 1 year.

It wasn't until the beginning of this year that I actually started playing online free rolls then a few months later began with micro tables. Last month i started playing live and have done pretty well. Online playing has helped me very much with my live playing. Where I go they play very loose so Its almost like playing in the free rolls. I get to kick but and bring cash home 2 out of 3 days a week I go.

I learned from watching poker on tv with my brothers, we would discuss different hands and such. From there I went online and played in freerolls and play chips, then progressed to playing for money either with friends or online.

Well,it was a long time ago but my brother showed me how to play.Ever sense then I was addicted. the stakes I played for back then have went up a bit but im still am addicted. rap poker was the first poker game i ever played. learned the basics for this game I am teaching my kid with the same game.

I learned to play with Hoyle Casino software and reading books.

i started playing 2 years ago at a friends house
we use to play for hours
even her kids played
it was fun
then we started going to poker nite at the pub
people at the pub told me about online poker
so i downloaded pokerstars.net
just play money
then i found out that pokertime would give me $10 to play for real
woohoo
so i lost that really fast
but thanks to that i found out about freerolls
then i found out about other sites
and now have 18 sites on my puter
freerolls all the time
its great

my uncle was playing a 250 play chip 90P sng on ftp, he left the game to go have a smoke and i took over and won it for him! i was hooked ever since

i started playing about 4 years ago at buddys house got 2nd first time and i was hooked lol then went too Ultimate Bet and played bingo for while and then started playen cash games on there, noble poker lol and then pokerstars full tilt

I learnt to play when i was young from my Grandad, he taught me a lot, as he used to be a bit of a shark in London

I always threw chips in for my dad when i was little. But when I was 12 I begged him to let me play with him and his friends. He said no untill one week his half-drunken friends said.."come on his money is good here."
SO the first hand I played (dealers choice) was in between. You know where you get two cards and you wager how ever much you want that the next card will fall between them. If you match one of your cards you pay double. I had Q 3 so I said pot (171$$$$$) and won. They played everything 5 stud 5 draw 7 stud omaha 3 card guts with a ghost hand (to keep pot going up) I live for poker!!!