How Old Were You When You Started Playing Poker?

45yrs and counting. the last 20 i've been serious about the game.

I have been playing for 11 years and i started playing when i was 29 going on 30 in 2007

Young lad

I remember coming home from school in grade 2 and my dad would let me play on his play money account on pokerstars. I am 20 now and still have a love for poker.

card game at age 14 and poker at age 28

I was homeschooled and my father and grandmother taught me different variations of poker to teach me some basic and complex mathematics. So I've been playing poker since about 9yrs old. I am almost 31 now. So I am closing in on playing for 22 years. I have played seriously for around 11years.

I was 17, and started since I watched wsop 2015, I went to the school then I taught my friends the rules and started playing!

Started playing at 18 with friends, hosting tournaments weekly in my house, those were good times. Use to play small 5er rebuy tournaments in local casino, where I got a great deal of enjoyment. Instantly loved it the game [emoji453]

I started playing poker when i was 7 years old.

I grew up sda. We played rook and pit. We didn't play poker until we were in college.

Playing at the 19 yeas old

I started playing when I was 12, that was 60 years ago. My Uncle and I would play for matchsticks ..

My first time playing poker I was 18 years old

I started playing poker cause' of a friend that told me about it and I did not listen to him at the beginning cause' he wanted me to play and earn money and dedicated to play and try to be a professional poker player so I was not really interested but equal I play for fun with free chips and some friend in some parties then I started to play online and I have a lots of fun everyday now I'm 19 years old and I like to play almost everyday.

I hope I could play poker for the rest of my life cause' I really love this game and I hope I could keep earning money playing this amazing sport and keep improving my game.

I started old already, at 22 years old. I wish I had known this game before, it's very cool.

I started playing poker with about 16 years, then there were the lucky poker has been ausgetrahlt on TV, and you could discover for themselves poker .Damals illuminated the WSOP on TV from ... that was really a nice experience .Now I am 35, and this game gives me a lot of fun over at the beginning at least:icon_joke

Age

I started when I was 11 years old, Granma taught me Rest In Peace Granma.

I was 11, I played a 5000 player freeroll on pokerstars and came in 14th, the freeroll was for items like hats and shirts

I started playing seriously when I was 31. Now I am 34. I used to play a bit in high school but didn't really get it until recently.

I was 18 years old and it was a big game of poker I made money roofing with the people that lived next door and they were a wild bunch but me and my dad would have our weekend poker games with them and they played games like follow the Queen match the pot and what ever card that comes after the Queen is wild and baseball and games like that for big money.
So that is the type of poker game I cut my teeth in a game where I could win or lose 2,500 to 3,000 in a night at 18 years old just starting out and most times I won the 2,500 or 3,000 because I was playing aginst a bunch a bunch of drunk or high roofers. Then I graduted to the easier live poker rooms for 3-6 and 10-20 action at PLO or NLH action after those wild roofer game which made those wild roofer nights seem like a walk in the park and made it easier to play and win at live action casino games. By then I already had enough hands in I knew what to play and what not to play to know what what +EV and what wasn't and have been making a killing torcking these roofers I just had to thighen my range a little against some of these casino pros and you know who they where by watching them play for about 15 to 30 minutes or so they were the displined people that folded most there hands out of position and played a select few in position and played those with extreme aggrestion. They won when they were in a hand most the time and the pots were big when they were in it because they knew how to build those pots. That's how I played as well. If I lose a pot off to the next one oh well I got ran down so be it there's another to be had on another hand don't let the bad beat get you down. Play on and play your A game every hand because the game will get you if you don't that's the way I was told and taught at the big game with the roofers and I've always played that way and you should always play that way anyway. I've been in tounerys before where I took massive beats for most my chips and came back and won them when it almost seem impossible to comeback from such a small stack but I did and won the whole thing because the way I think. I think that it is never over until your done. I have even cashed in a WPT Event played at Seminole Hardrock Tampa before with Scotty Nguyen at my table and you know how annoying he can be sometimes. He was actually fun to play with he told a bunch of poker stories and I made the money and I was happy then he busted me on a beat and he said sorry man and we shook hands before I went to collect my money it was cool. Not to often you get to sit with Scotty at the poker tables and hear his war stories. any way. Yes I was 18 when I started playing poker.

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i am 26 (almost 27) ... i started playing poker first time last May.. so I was 26

I actually started playing poker about 8 years ago. I'm 38 now so started playing later than most. I was a lumber grader at the local mill when i broke my neck in a freak accident when I was about 27. After rehab and a lot of prescription medication I was still unable to work. I was depressed and wasn't getting out at all when my oldest son and my in laws invited me to a home game. I had a little beginners luck and got 15 knockout chips and won the tourney I made like 400 bucks that night and realized I might have a way to still support my family. I've grinded and grinded and read and studied a lot since then and although I haven't gotten rich (raising a family of 4 and all) I have paid my bills and kept a good bankroll going. I really wish I would have found poker in like 01 or 02 cause who knows what might have been lol.

I first played poker when I was 28 years old.

I started playing at 16, now I'm 28.

Started researching on how to be a (semi) pro this past summer. So I learned a lot more in this past 6 or 7 months.

when I was about 6 or 7 I was at a Christmas party at my uncles and he taught me a game called hi lo some people call it in between:0) I won like 30 bucks and that was the start of my love for poker:0)

played with friends at the age of 12 at 5 draw poker. why then thought that this is real poker. only then met with no limit hold'em. now 31 years old. I play about 7-8 years

When I started playing I was 25 years old. It was a prelude to a beautiful adventure