What was Your First Game of Poker and What was the Buy-In?

[Amatsu_H]

I recall, when I first started playing poker (After local bar games at the Red-Hot Poker Tour In Ottawa Ontario), my very first online game was at Poker-Stars, and the level of the game was a 6 max and the buy-in (This Is the funny part), was $500, yup for my very first game of poker, I started at a $500 USD level (Like a bamboon boss), needless to say I didn't last long, but I do recall my very first hand, and the action of the hand. I had pocket 5s on the btn (Don't really recall the blinds at that stage, but they were low), and someone opened, and I 3bet and they 4bet (And yup being a noob), and thinking (5s were the nuts), I 5bet A.I and that person snapped me so fast and they showed AA but I did end up cracking It and taking that player out. After that the table was making fun of me and saying "How couldn't I have known they had AA or how I can 5bet A.I with 5s" and comments like that, to which I "Called them all on and told them I was winning that game", and generally speaking noob stuff. Long story short I didn't last long enough, heck I didn't even make ITM as I was the 5th player out out 5 players left).

So lets hear your memorable moments from your first game of poker ever, and how did you do, and If It can really top me playing $500 STTs like the bamboon boss that I was back than

That is one funny story "500 buy in, like a boss"
First game PS freeroll
Live local tourney (my house) with brother and his friends, buy in $50 pesos or $3 dollars
First casino? Viejas at San Diego for NL cash $1/2

So you have naruto as your name, picture of doflamingo, devil fruit of teach and a rock lee statement, hahaha a lot of mix there xD

No hunterxhunter, FMA brotherhood, Hellsing? haha

 

[Ciro Chow]

My first tournament is pokerstars Macau daily tournament.
1200$HKD buy-in

 

[naruto_miu]

That is one funny story "500 buy in, like a boss"
First game PS freeroll
Live local tourney (my house) with brother and his friends, buy in $50 pesos or $3 dollars
First casino? Viejas at San Diego for NL cash $1/2

So you have naruto as your name, picture of doflamingo, devil fruit of teach and a rock lee statement, hahaha a lot of mix there xD

No hunterxhunter, FMA brotherhood, Hellsing? haha

Gon Freecs Is my man and I got nothing but respect for Edward but never got Into Hellsing

 

[David macdonald]

It was a fiver friendly game with my ex girlfriend and a couple of friends, my first poker game was pokerstars in 2006, I don't remember the buy in but I remember you got 10 dollars for £6.50, it's now £8 for 10 dollars. I watched my first poker game on tv around the same time and it was called poker after dark.

 

[Thenightrain]

Home game with some mates, probably a £10 buy-in with rebuys back then

 

[Thenightrain]

It was a fiver friendly game with my ex girlfriend and a couple of friends, my first poker game was pokerstars in 2006, I don't remember the buy in but I remember you got 10 dollars for £6.50, it's now £8 for 10 dollars. I watched my first poker game on tv around the same time and it was called poker after dark.

Poker after Dark was great, that's also what I started off watching

 

[vov4ik]

First buy-in

Yeah it all started with freerolls for a long time afterwards the first bet of sit and go 0.10 q --- 360 people and went buy-in higher and slowly try

 

[John4_19]

Girlfriend's brother got me into the game. I think I was watching him play in Absolute Poker satellite to the $100k and he won a ticket. He played the $100k and I saw how much money he could've won and I think that's when I was interested so we started playing $5 or $10 live SNGs.

 

[wilpinsi]

When I started poker, I did not even know anything about how to play, so I did not want to put my money in the game, at that time there were many freegames in PS, like those 100k free, every day.
So I had to earn a little money in these freegames, right after I learned to play I ventured more, always using the most free games.

 

[TheNutz4You]

micro cash on acr/betonline. freerolls as well

 

[effece]

My first game

My first game was in mansion poker, lego to win a couple of dollars in a free, enter the casino and win $ 300, with that among the cash tables of nl100, jaa jaaaa, do not take long to lose my bank, of course not then I had no idea of anything in poker, about 2 weeks I had started playing. After that I passed titan and full tilt, room that I liked a lot. Pokerstars did not please me.

 

[rodrigo1972]

my firts games were freerolls and cash games at pokerstars

 

[JCuervo]

The now defunked "Red Light Poker"; they use to run $500.00 freerolls 2 -3 times a week with less than 75 people registering. Had a great bankroll until Black Friday...never got to make the final withdrawal before they went under :-(

 

[VizziVizo]

Poker School Freeroll at pokerstars

 

[Nano5722]

I think it was about 6-7 years ago. It was only the beginning of poker in our country. So, i played at partypoker in that time. It was a free tournaments, which running everyday in the evening. I won some money and also tickets for the next step freerolls with better prizes. So, that was my first time i played poker.

 

[kamoazd91]

5 pound cash buy ins 2007, won something like in a 5 row, lots of alcohol influenced decision making

 

[Alex Batista]

Online, I always play freeroll, I did not have and I do not have the same courage as you ($). Lol. But in live, I remember very well that the first time, I played a cash game with $ 50 buy. I knew little about poker (I still know little) but luck was with me. I left everyone at the table angry, for coming out of it with $ 850 in which they thought I would clean the fish.

 

[Scott419]

Haha.. nice... 1st tho. Why would you buy into a 500$ buy in on your 1st game online? Accident? For online that's a LOT. Had to be a big guarantee right? 50,000$ maybe? But mine was a freeroll I'm sure. But my 1st cash buy in was the 2.20 180 man on #Pokerstars. Playing from U.S. I played on #Fulltilt and #Pokerstars. Also continued to play those all the time. I liked em. $2.20 for a chance to win 97$ I think was up top. Nice post tho. Have fun. Good luck at the tables. #Scott41984 #Toledo419

 

[naruto_miu]

Haha.. nice... 1st tho. Why would you buy into a 500$ buy in on your 1st game online? Accident? For online that's a LOT. Had to be a big guarantee right? 50,000$ maybe? But mine was a freeroll I'm sure. But my 1st cash buy in was the 2.20 180 man on #Pokerstars. Playing from U.S. I played on #Fulltilt and #Pokerstars. Also continued to play those all the time. I liked em. $2.20 for a chance to win 97$ I think was up top. Nice post tho. Have fun. Good luck at the tables. #Scott41984 #Toledo419

My first buy-in wasn't an accident, I bought In thinking "These are easy to win".

The guarantee I don't recall but It was a Sit N Go

 

[twizzybop]

I started when I was a teen, home game poker for pocket change with my step father and his friends. Needless to say my pocket change didn't last very long.

 

[vladikov]

My first game was a freeroll to gain experience. However, I've learned to play poker myself. I have more to learn and I'm going to buy a poker book. I was very safe to play in, but at the first break I had a good stack I spent 10000 and continued to play. I took my TV and watched the europort give poker and watch watching watch. I played one player playing Benjamin Spindler was called and I decided to change the style and I played aggressively like him. On the second holiday I was already with 100k stack which is very good for a debutant. I did not know how to Playing at high levels and dropping off just before 3 vacation at 200-300 position

 

[sakenby]

My first game was on...poker room 888 Is one of the few poker rooms,which immediately give the real money that you can play and buy-the first was in the amount of one dollar...

 

[veronica]

Hello my first uegos of poker as always were in pokerstars were the satellites of ps where there was variety of modalities and one classified weekly to play on Saturdays and Sundays by 2k .. unfortunately I never had the opportunity to get better in those tournaments and today no longer We have in ps of that possibility.

 

[SPANKYSN]

I guess that the library at university doesn't count, so the first game was limit 7 card stud at The Four Queens in Las Vegas. The buy-in was about $200 and the stakes were $1/2/4. I played so tight that when I finally got a great hand, everybody folded to me. I got so frustrated playing poker that I left with most of my money and quickly donated it to the blackjack table at the Horseshoe.

 

[veritasi]

Holdem, 20¢