Where did you learn to play?

actually i tought myself how to play by watching it on tv and just playing on the internet.

I learned to play with my uncles. Very soon after they stopped playing with me.

I learned by watching it on TV. I then picked up how to play and played small buy ins with my friend and I won a lot. SO now I moved to the oternet where it is harder but hopefully will be successful one day.

I learned to play basic five card draw from family members, and later learned Hold 'Em online at Pokerstars.

I learned on a ski trip, where i lost all my money with four cards in a row (thought it was a straight of course). forgot about it, but then i saw the WPT on tv, and i was hooked.

Began playing for play money, and from there i've become a winning online poker player lol...

I learned recently on the ESPN big monstrous ongoing freefroll. I agree with those that say it hurts your game, but it was a low-stress way to get used to hold-em & online play in general. I had to change it up a lot to win in real $ tourneys tho (but am already winning). I learned Omaha by accidentally clicking the wrong pay tournament. Knew I was in trouble when I got 4 cards. Got my butt kicked BTW so maybe I still don't know Omaha hi/lo LOL.

I started playing on Absolute poker, first in there single tourneys and now in the big money tables, although there are a lot of jerks that play at Absolute. I find a lot of people that don't really know how to play all that well especially in there h/l omaha rooms. It's a perfect place to learn to play

i learned to play on tv and the first time i saw it on espn i thought it was ridiculous to have poker on espn but then me and m friends starting playing and now poker is what keeps us connected considerring how many different schools we go to

I played basic 5 card draw with my older sisters boyfriend and his friends as a preteen. But hold em I picked up from TV. After becoming addicted to WPT & WSOP and any other poker that I could watch on TV, I finally tried it online. I mostly play free rolls for now and take what I win there to the real money. Have only been playing online a few weeks, but I love it.

I moved to wa. state yrs back went to a pub after work and a group of guys played every day 25 cent poker dealers choice holdem' pineapple ,omaha,7stud coupel others.good group of people their. the vally tavern, port Hadlock Wa.

I learned watching the WSOP on TV, then I went and started playing online. I agree with the play money making you play loosely, and I lost quite a bit of cash when I first played for real. I've progressed though.

i learned poker at my friends house
it is a really easy game to pick up not many rules to it the key is to practice

Learned at Ladbrokes, and was screwd badly my fist time.
Thats what happen when you think you actually think poker is an easy
game. But I learned my lesson and I do a lot better now..

It great practice to play freerolls. You play against a lot of different styles, newbies and veterans and its all for free.

I started playing 5 Card Draw with friends and Texas Hold em at the Prima Poker Network after i watched it on TV.

Have found out that $2- $5 tourneys fit my budget and have some good players also. Have recently placed 2nd and have played in 4 tourneys for real money. Am only down $4.50 from initial $25. I think the money tourneys are better than free games. People dont want to lose and are more carefull in playing. Not as much 2-4 people all in on first hand. I am a big fan of Absolute Poker. The best site I have played on.

i learned to play poker watching my parents play and watching the WSOP on the TV.

I started out playing poker when I was a little girl growing up. My dad's family got together on weekends to play poker for real money .25 antes. They played dealers choice mostly, but that meant that we played 5 card stud, 7 card stud, and a little deuces wild and jacks or better. My dad would let me sit in and pay for me to play. I did okay. A couple of years ago I started watching holdem on television. I gradually got highly interested and started searching for online poker sites that had places I could play. I initially began in yahoo and did okay there, but the cyber hogs were annoying and I wanted a site that was poker only. That's when I began to discover sites like pokerstars, poker room, poker world, and Ultimate Bet. I generally only play on Ultimatebet, but have on occasion went to other sites just for a break. I have recently joined jetsetpoker.com and like it much better than the others I have tried. Their tournys are smaller seated and cash prizes for freerolls isn't bad either

i learnt to play years ago when i was about 13-14 with my uncles we played £10 each but i got to play for free(yeah) within a year i had to pay as i was getting better (lol they were just really bad) then i stopped but after watch the film rounders i got back into it watched the World Series then went online, god that was a boring story, lol sorry guys

I learnt to play on party poker play money tables about 6 months ago.
Then someone told me about freerolls, and now i play all over the nett.

I was never a poker player. But from watching my husband and his buddies I learned the basics. I started joining their weekly games and the rest is history.

They started a showing poker on late night tv over here and I really enjoyed watching it. A couple of months ago a friend convinced me to try playing online, and so far I am really enjoying it!

But to answer the question, I am still learning how to play, mainly at Jetset on the freerolls, as the free tables are full of loonies!

I first came across poker on T.V proprly . . . id heard all the rage about it but i always thought it would be too hard to learn, but after watching Hellmuth winding up other players, i began to take a bigger interest, its only on at like 11:00 where iam so id be sat watchin till about 2:00am as much as i could before my eyes just shut, then i got my brothers into it and we had a few practise games every now and again, now . . . . im on noble poker EVERY day without fail . . . my dining room table hasnt been eaten off for months because the poker tables on there and i literally have a poker night with my friends around 4 times a week if we dont have exams coming up!

I learned by watching it on T.V. I knew how to play draw poker before then so it was easy to pick up.

I learned to play with my grandpa. He used to play poker kinda Texas Dolly style, but overseas when he was on tour in WWII. A lot of ppl played in his squad or platoon or whatever it was. I even saw a picture of him holding up stacks of 20s he won at a tournament in the Navy.

He tought me to play when I was 11. Play money of course. From there I progressed to playing with friends for change and then for bills, then I started online and... here I am: 20 times poorer and about 50 times smarter.

I started playing poker at age 17 at drunken parties that was my rutine for about 7 yrs lurned a little but some crazzy games . when I was 27 moved into a house that had a pool room . all my friends are pool players and love to bet on almost any thing . we eventaly got tired of swaping money back and forth at pool and made a poker nite . A friend of A friend sat in one nihgt ant called a game called TEXAS HOLDEM I was hooked . downloaded PACIFIC POKER and took my play money from $1000 to $152,500 in about two months so I made my first deposit there and now play every day at one of 3 sites and doing well .

I agree DOYEL BRUNSON No limit poker is the best GL all

I've also learned by playing online. There used to be a tutorial online that gave you the odds and outs of each hand. I have it in memory now, but I lost the site that had it. Sorry!

I learned your basic friendly poker game (draw, stud, 7 card no-peek ) at the kitchen table w/ neighbors, family, and friends...lol
But I learned the best game (in my humble opinion, NL Hold 'em) by trial and error at Paradise Poker. Been playing for a little over a year now and I LOVE IT.
Oh, and also by watching the pros on WSOP tours and WPT as well (love Daniel Negreanu). My husband and I have become full blown poker nuts! lol

World Poker Tour. Then read a couple of books and started playing low limit on line.

Then played some no limit and now tournaments. I seem to be getting a little better, but have a long way to go.

i feel ancient i started playing 25 years ago in college. been doing ever since <but i have never stopped learning and hope never too

Hi - I learned to play on Poker Stars. I just went into a "play room" and started ... and learned from there. Then I found they televised poker and I learned a lot watching the tourneys on TV and reading lots of stuff on the internet. I still haven't read a book yet.

I learned poker at around ten, in the '50's in Yonkers, NY. Then I started caddying and played poker and a rummy game called TONK, around back of the clubhouse. That was an education...playing with all those older, experienced caddies. Sometimes I went home without my loop money.

I rarely played hold 'em before two years ago. Nor had I ever read a poker book or studied the game. Now I've got a dozen books/tapes/DVD's under my belt, play daily, and work on my game (keep stats/review hands, etc.).

So, when did I learn poker? Uh, I guess it was ten! Uh....fourteen. No,...uh...56!

Citytom
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I am new at holdem as I have played 7 card stud most of my life. I used to go to Vegas for a week for 15 years strait and learned the hard way to play :-)

I started by watching the poker tourney's on tv, then went to Paradise and I
am still Learning....just a newbie

My husband hosts hold-em party poker every now and then, I got bored watching and decided to try my luck...he usually has a $20 buy-in or something friendly. Haven't won yet, but with the tips I have been getting off this site and the experience in some of the free-rolls I hope to surprise they guys soon..