What is the average age of an online poker player?

I am surprised that Google turned up no studies surveys or any numbers for that matter. If I were to guess I would say the mean age is about 25. What would you say are the mean age median age and mode age?

I have read that it is 23yrs. old male. Pretty sure I read that in Bluff Magazine awhile ago. (not sure what month, I get every issue)

I would say much higher than that. You have to take into account that a large number of middle age and above individuals who play poker likewise plays online.

But as of the moment since no survey were ever release we have to contend ourselves with pure speculation.

I'd believe it it's a male in his mid to late twenties. With the legal gambling age of 21, the median age is going to rise.

Maybe you could set up a poll on here to see what the avg. age is for a Cardschat member is? My guess is that it'd be slightly higher than 23 due to there being quite a few older farts on here (myself included).
I know... looks young up there in pic., but only on account of raiding my stepmom's christmas presents (Oil of Olay.. it keeps them guessing).

Ask Nick to show the numbers for this site, he has bdays for many members, sure it is part of regular data collection to sort these, along with gender, location, etc..

We have more older members than most forums I guess. A few of us are old enough to seriously skew the numbers upwards here; consider us outliers LOL...

Overall 23/Male is your mean or average online player I would think. Why u bring up median and mode is beyond me -- you want to be a statistician?

I think he musta meant MOD age here,^^^^ he probly has a crush on juiceeQ and dakota-xx.

I know I have.

i start playing online when i was 15. so i guess some online players might be underage as well. Base on this, i would say that the average should be around 22. ALso the elder players which got no skill on computer , will lower the result

I saw there's a 2 year Harvard study of 3,445 online poker players that suggested the average age was 27.9 (I assume that's the mean, although I share the OP's interest in the median and mode as well - can't help being a mathematician). It also suggest that almost 95% were male, which seems a little high, but may not reflect the most recent population of online players.

That would be great if the moderators can release these numbers. I am just curious to see who my competition is

And you answered your own question on why I would bring up median and mode. From what I understand a handful of high numbers can weigh the mean upwards and give an inaccurate depiction of the actual field of play.

my guess would be around the 21-25 mark.

[quote=Makwa;1388012]Ask Nick to show the numbers for this site, he has bdays for many members, sure it is part of regular data collection to sort these, along with gender, location, etc..

We have more older members than most forums I guess. A few of us are old enough to seriously skew the numbers upwards here; consider us outliers LOL...

Nice idea, very interesting subject. We communicate regularly without having much of an idea of who we are talking to. It would be very nice to know more about the group in general. I guess I also qualify as an elder in this forum even though I don't think as myself as one.

I just checked and don't see anyway to get statistics based on age. A lot of members don't fill that out anyway.

51 here

In these days the average age is much lower than what was maybe 10 years ago if online poker was going then. These days the poker world has a lot of young great players who can win the big tournaments more than once or twice
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Fascinating. While I can understand your curiosity from a sociological or marketing point of view, I don't get the part about profiling the competition using that information. Are you thinking that poker prowess correlates with age in some way?

Why not write to support at individual sites, especially the big ones? Tell them you're doing a study or something. While you're at it, why not ask about the male/female ratio too? If nothing else, finding out whether they would release such stats would be interesting. You could also contact the various magazines and other poker news media.

You'd probably have to query them from the SQL database

Thank you Spock

I think most would agree the more info you have on your villains, any kind, the better. Age and gender certainly figure high. Also, whats their income, how much do they have behind BRwise? Etc.

And where from?

Knowing u r up against a 21 year old multimicro wannabe makes tilting him that much easier, for instance... as opposed to the guys who have been around for years...

These things and more added up, help us profile villains.

So ya I would love to know the numbers overall for online players, also forum by forum (again I bet we skew upwards) and site by site.Someone is compiling these numbers, somewhere, as we speak...

Mean > Median > Mode

Yes there is a way of pulling that info for sure, from the database.

And Debi even if only 10% of 50,000 members gave a number, that is def statistically significant (and can be indicative of actual numbers)...

There would be bias in the results because anyone that is under-aged would not put their real age.

i'm teaching my 10yr nephew to play
he doing ok 3/10 itm for .25 Cnts games he's
just starting to understand the game more, more


LOL ... A 10yr od just pwned u ...as he say...pump his arms in the air

i would say between 24 and 27 probably.

That can be taken into account, as could the seniors or women (lol) who knock down their age. Any bias (and possible numbers associated) can be included in the analysis.

Bias does not stop one from using stat samples, but does qualify them. That is good when acknowledged.

Lets try to work with the numbers we have.... I mean err.. which we dont have yet but are there somewhere...

How would this be accounted for? You can't just cancel them.

I don't know what you mean by this but there is no statistical significance in using a biased sample. Looking at the observations that are available may give us some idea of what the overall distribution is but we can't have that much more confidence in it than an educated guess.

24 i think ...anyway thats the age where kids are smart @$$ and think they know everything! Seriously poker is a young mans game that takes a strong mind to consistantly win.Im in my middle 30's and i feel like im as sharp as ever but the tables are getting younger and younger these days.

No but you can make estimates, based on whatever data at hand. Talkin case study here, more validity than reliability.

Its a start and analytic model to work from. So make it a more highly educated guess, which is better than we have now LOL.

And qualitative (and anecdotal) data should be added to test hypotheses re underage, for example, et. al., including numbers from offshore if available (not).

No this is pure curiosity I can barely run through all the stats that I have and dont use. As for writing to the sites, that would be a great project but you will have to excuse this lazy bozo to pass that job onto someone else

Oh well...I went for the long shot and here's what I got:

----- Original Message -----

To: support@pokerstars.com
Subject: Statistics about PokerStars members

>I was wondering whether you have a data base delineating the
>average/mean age and gender of the players at PokerStars. If so, are
>these statistics available to PokerStars members?
>
>Thanks in advance, as always,
>LarkMarlow

----- Response -----
Thank you for your email.
I am sorry but any statistical information relating to other players on PokerStars is not available to players at all. This is simply to remain within our privacy policy and any such information is used internally only.
I am sorry that we are not able to provide you with any information of the sort.
Please let us know if we can assist you in any other way.
Regards,
Leonard B
PokerStars Support Team
　

I would say around 20-25

Based off of data under "Calendar". It's public data so I don't see any reason this shouldn't be allowed but if it is for whatever reason, mods can delete this.

Disclaimer: As I have stated before, I do not think this is representative of the whole online poker population in the least bit due to bias, potentially inaccurate source data, and a non random sample. This is more or less "just for fun".

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^^^^ Nice one, txs.

And it fits with the published number Orifice suggested, 23, modally at least.

Can we get gender breakdown? Location by country?

around 23 i suppose.Thing is every year poker seems to get younger...and us males/females in our 30's are the new OLD FOLKS! Aint that a b!T$$

Great find WurlyQ. I would say this is a semi accurate representation of poker regulars since they have taken the time to register on a poker site.

love to see the maximum is 108
but cant belive you published my age