How did you start playing poker?

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My little brother bought a new computer with the money he earned from online poker, and I was wondering)
 
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This is very similar to how I started playing poker too. However, no one was ever against me learning poker early on: the game just never interested me. I have like zero interest in the "thrill of gambling" and to this day, things like betting on horse racing or casino slot machines never appeal to me. I am not 100% against these things if someone gets enjoyment from it, but I guess I just don't see how you would win at these long-term. Horse racing (and other sports betting) has "odds" factored in, so you are never really "ahead" through much research and statistics because chances are someone has already factored that information into the "odds" and slot machines are a joke because of them literally pre-set by the casinos.

It is funny you make note of something here - I am not a gambler either.

It is a cliche within poker that whenever someone makes such a claim, other will call BS and say of course everyone who plays poker is a gambler. Not so.

I have never gambled on anything other than poker. Not once.

I became interested in poker exactly because of this. I would take calculated risks in my life when I knew the outcome depended on my hard work and basic smarts. But gambling has never appealed. What fascinated me with poker was the ability to constantly take a beat, often when making the right play, with the ability to put that defeat aside and play on, focus on the task at hand. It was a skill set I did not possess but wanted to develop.

Stepping over the line even with play money was a challenge at first, but then the thrill of winning an hand quickly became the reward I thought it might, and the rest, as they say, is history!
 
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I start playing poker with some friends.
First we play live poker with cents...
After a while we play with more money
and online @ PokerStars
 
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hi

hello lol make me smile when i remember how i start with poker game hheheh i start from tagged page and then i facebook texas holdem but when one friend tell me thats you can play and with realy money on line poker and i say i will try and this with real money and now still im playing maybe 12 years :reddy:
 
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I watched the tournaments on television and they seemed so great, people wearing glasses so they wouldn't read if he bluffed or not, other people trying to get his peer out of his control, others like the case of Negreanu who saw him even joke In the most difficult situations, then I said to myself one day that I wanted to learn to play poker, I started with all the poker stars courses and my dad and bingo lessons, I downloaded the PS software and since then I have loved playing poker.:party:
 
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My parents played poker...I never watched them play, but I became curious in first year university and got hooked.
 
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I love to play any card games, but texas holdem I started to play on Facebook, on the Zynga platform.
 
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I wanted to make some extra money for the strip clubs.
 
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Hello.
I started playing poker about three years ago. My coworker often played poker, and I became interested. Now it is my favorite hobby.
 
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Hello, this is my first thread, and since is the first one there is one question I would like to ask you all, and that is "how you started playing poker?"
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hi hi lightf!!! :ciao:
my premier exposure to poker was "strip poker", no sure how we played, seems females all lost quickly, i sure did lol hummm... can't remember much, too many cocktails :embarasse

2 years ago i briefly date boy who like play poker
at my university, poker games usually happen 24/7, in the education faculty lounge, or student union building

i hung out in education building watch bfriend & perpetual poker games (it just boys play)
learn basic rules as a spectator - i never play

(poor student me) amazed amount of money they wager - pots often in access $100
no chips just cash monies

lightf welcome very best poker place ever!!!
so much poker knowledge & info here is truly amazing
enjoy cardschat!


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I started playing after watching a tournament broadcast on TV. I was hooked as soon as they said that you could earn money playing from home and to be honest until that moment I did not know anything about this beautiful game.
 
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Hello, this is my first thread, and since is the first one there is one question I would like to ask you all, and that is "how you started playing poker?". Maybe some family memeber taught you about it, or you watch it in youtube and thought it was cool and you try it?


For me it was looking at my dad play at pokerstars when I was a kid, he used to play a lot and sometimes he even ended up falling asleep while playing freerolls. Then, one night when he fall asleep I continued playing for him and ended up winning, imagine my excitement, after that I started to watch videos and study the rules and I have to say that I really like playing poker and I get so much fun with it.

So.. how you started playing poker?
I started playing in 2011 thanks to two cousins who had been doing it for a long time, they told me that it was profitable because you win in dollars and you could grow the bank with free tournaments. So it was that I started until now and it was not a lie, now most of my money comes from online poker.:cool:
 
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I started playing with friends and my brothers in small tournaments after eating some delicious barbecue.

then we continue when the online rooms appeared and finally the big live tournaments !!

This last the best hopefully soon they return those tables live.
 
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I have been playing poker for 10 years. I started playing out of boredom when I had a lot of free time. Poker is my favorite hobby which in addition to pleasure also brings me profit.
 
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I would play 5 card stud and 7 card with friends back in high school for super small stakes.
 
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You asked a question that I don't even remember when it all started. I learned to play 25-27 years ago. Apparently I read about poker somewhere and became interested in the rules, although I was not involved in gambling and was not interested in gambling. My first game was five-card poker, or, as it is sometimes called, Russian poker.
But don't think that all this time I have been playing poker nonstop, I was on a 10-year hiatus. The second wave of my interest arose about 8 years ago.
 
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I started only on impulse with some friends in Peru 2012 and from there I play when I can especially in this quarantine.
 
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I saw a report on a poker series on TV, I don't remember exactly, there was also an ad for PokerStars, so I started playing poker, first playing for conditional chips, then tournaments, freerolls, that's it ))
 
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First time I played poker was on play money and... I didnt like it, because it wasnt real poker (but I didnt know it at that time) A few months later I saw poker in tv, and I liked it instantly, because it was more like the other game than I have played on play money. So I registered on first poker site (stars) and thats how I starter to play :)
 
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For me I had a neighbor who came over to help me with some stuff in my apartment. And I had just gotten a used laptop. It was probably around 16 years ago I think. He pulled out a deck of cards and said let me teach you how to play NL Hold'em poker he taught me the basics in a few minutes LOL. And then he showed me the site absolute poker, where he was playing on and I started playing there. There was a lot of good free rolls back in the day and all different poker forums that had their own private freerolls so it was a fun time:):)
 
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What a great question!

I had been watching the wsop on TV in the early 2000's. Then a buddy and I went to Vegas. We mostly played blackjack but I wanted to check out Binion's. We made the trek from The Strip and they happened to be starting a low stakes tournament when we were there, so we jumped in.

Quite confident I didn't make it more than a level or two. I had no idea of hand strength, positional value, nada. What a disaster.

But at the same time it fanned the flames.

I also played the WSOP game on Xbox, entered local tournaments, trips to Vegas and Reno, online, yadda yadda yadda.
 
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I guess I started playing like most people.. I was back in college when couple friends of mine invited me over their place to teach me poker.. but it's been just a cards game for me since April this year, when I decided to study really hard and realized poker is everything but just a cards game
 
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I start playing poker when i was 15-16 years old online there was a poker site called DoylesRoom that was like 2006-2007 i think . It was great because they had bunch of freerolls . After that i was playing and study poker almost every they . The money wasn't important back then .
 
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