When did you start playing Texas Holdem?

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I start playing on the Facebook. Few months after that, I opened an account on PokerStars and start with the freerolls. 🙂
 
I started playing poker at a young age about 8-9 yrs old. Different variations like 5 card draw-7 stud-midnight baseball-Follow the Q...Not too much of high low but straight up $1-$5 bets/games with options of side pots and things like that.
But Holdem itself Id say around 03' 04'.
😀 Super Unaware of poker at that time and how it was to be played 🙄
 
Played my first poker hand at nine with my fathers poker group. Texas hold-um was one of the games played. Only it was called kansas up. This was in 1944. so I guess i have been playing for 68 years.
 
I started playing poker on Facebook .After a while I made an account on PokerStars.In December this year I am 3 years when playing poker. 😀
 
I learned poker a long time ago. My dad taught me Five Card draw when I was very little so I played that most of my child hood! Always fun finding Five card draw games online to jump into as I usually always do well in them!

My transition to NLHE was because of Poker after Dark, It use to come on at 2 am and I would always stay up to watch it even if I would be tired for school in the mornings. Not long after I started playing online a little bit and learned a lot in a short period of time! Some people really dont realize how different the competition is now as to how it was then!

I played a good bit never doing anything serious with it just playing a little bit every day until black friday came and I did not play for awhile! Around late 2013 I started playing a little bit on facebook and eventually found myself back in the game!

BTW, I really like this thread. A lot of interesting stories! Gl to all and best of luck on the felts!
 
I had a little handheld video poker game I played as a kid. I didn't play any real poker until I was 22 though. I'm 28 now. It's been fun.
 
I've been playing poker for 18 years with 5 card draw in the first 5 years then my first hand of texas holdem was 12 years ago and it was on pacific poker with their hyper losse players, then it was a hard move to pokerstars and party poker.
Have make some money from tournaments play with my best shot of 1600$ in party poker
 
I started playing poker back in 2007 my first site was absolute poker.
 
2006. I was invited to a small NLHE tournament: I read Phil Hellmuth's book the day before the game. I won, and I was hooked.
 
I started around April 2013. I had seen some wsop coverage during the Moneymaker boom and was very intrigued, but I was too busy at the time to do anything beyond piddle around with play money on FTP for a few minutes. I didn't pay much attention beyond that, but I would always pick up copies of poker newsletters in stands whenever I saw them.

I remember stumbling onto the 2012 WSOP ME videos on Youtube last year and was instantly hooked again, so I started doing research on OLP sites and most of what I read was bad. Complaints like rigged software, disappearing bankrolls, various and sundry problems with getting money off of the sites, you name it. There was a particular thread on CC that I kept coming back to that rationally debunked many of the complaints, and since Carbon still had Funsteps + public MTT freerolls at the time I decided to create accounts on both here and Carbon and dive in.
 
I don't remember the exact date, but it was in the mid ninety's, I started playing 5 card draw with family when I was bout 7, I am 51 now.




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I started playing poker in 2009!first playing 5 cards draw!Nice game HOLD EM!
 
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I started playing when I was 30 I am now 53 I am still learning every day🙂
 
Every day for the last 10 years. And Im only 24. Practice is all you can do to stay on top of your game, study, and grind!
 
I started to play may 5 years ago, it was not serious.. played purely for fun

but will learn the game, only a year ago (read the forum, the use of statistics and watch VODs)
 
I started playing about 3 years ago. I missed the boom and since my choices for live are not that much I have been learning playing online
 
23 now started when i was 12 playing small games online and watching on tv. around 13 or 14 is when i started playing for playmoney online and won my first real money tourney on pokerstars for $900 when i was 15
 
I started playing poker back in 2007 my first site was pokerstars my best shot 86$.
 
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