Who taught you how to play?

TJHERE136 · Jul 28, 2015

who taught me?

My grandfather

DawnNuts · Jul 28, 2015

a lot of my elders when I was younger. we use to have family 5$ buy in tournaments.

DawnNuts · Jul 28, 2015

but mainly my uncle who set up the tourneys who taught me the thinking of the game and the experience came from the playing tourneys

m3th0s · Jul 30, 2015

ESPN and WPT commentators taught me how to play so I had to relearn a lot of things

and celebrity poker with phil helmuth.

ayahuasca · Jul 30, 2015

Books - and then hours of playing.

vinylspiros · Jul 30, 2015

i learned hot to play when i was around 13-14 from my uncle, but i just knew the basic rules.

It wasnt untill i signed up to cardschat in 2012 that i actually learned everything else. Made a thread here. Exchanged opinions with better players than i was and got a WHOLE lot better.

VizziVizo · Aug 7, 2015

Nobody, I did it by myself.

alexis8888 · Aug 7, 2015

My son played poker before me and I got interested.

ChillinVillian · Aug 8, 2015

I watched my dad play cards with all the local boys for years . Finally I got to sit in a game at like 13 with some uncles and aunts at my uncles house that was about 2 miles from my place . Why do I bring up the distance between the homes ? Well my uncle Poncho sent me home walking with no pants ! Yup , he won everything I had and even had me betting my PANTS ! He did make me walk home that night in my friggin underwear and it was fall , I remember it so clearly !

hffjd2000 · Aug 8, 2015

It started for me when I saw WPT on our local sports channel.

I researched and read books and articles regarding poker without playing at first.

The application came later.

Drtanner · Aug 9, 2015

moneymaker got me into poker then books and playing for free

ccocco · Aug 9, 2015

Nothing better to learn from someone who is Pro or poker schools there are several very good, while learning to go get tickets to play in arcades. Also watch many videos live poker. greeting

PieterTerAar · Aug 9, 2015

i was always interested in card games. I used to play against the computer on an free gamesite. Then i found an App for my mobile. I liked clash of clans a lot more but when my ipad broke i start playing poker more seriously and i downloaded pokerstars. Watched videos etc.

Stephenunited · Aug 9, 2015

steved757 said:
Just curious about how did you all learn how to play poker? Just like a lot of other games, I actually learned by watching others then taught myself how to play and got better at it as I played more and more... How did you learn how to play?

Completely taught myself. All of my family and extended family cannot play poker. Anyone the same?

almanik · Aug 10, 2015

Nobody. I just play. I think best way to learn poker - is to play the game. To understand different thigs is good to wach translation from big life tournaments. For example, russian commentators always told about technical side of the game, different combination and other things.

rickypr18 · Aug 10, 2015

One of my neighborhood friends taught me the rules, I learned by myself from there.

Poker Orifice · Aug 10, 2015

vinylspiros said:
i learned hot to play when i was around 13-14 from my uncle, but i just knew the basic rules.

It wasnt untill i signed up to cardschat in 2012 that i actually learned everything else. Made a thread here. Exchanged opinions with better players than i was and got a WHOLE lot better.

Come on.... no B.S. You still haven't learned how to play

OP, I learned how to play from my mother (no.. not your mother,.. my mother!). She would often pull out the cards & chips/coins & start up a game when family was visiting (or neighbours, or my friends, etc. etc.). It started from as long ago as I can remember (I can remember them helping me fan out the cards in my hand while playing 5cd. draw, because my hands weren't quite big enough to hold them that way myself).

vinylspiros · Aug 11, 2015

Poker Orifice said:
Come on.... no B.S. You still haven't learned how to play

OP, I learned how to play from my mother (no.. not your mother,.. my mother!). She would often pull out the cards & chips/coins & start up a game when family was visiting (or neighbours, or my friends, etc. etc.). It started from as long ago as I can remember (I can remember them helping me fan out the cards in my hand while playing 5cd. draw, because my hands weren't quite big enough to hold them that way myself).

i miss u too PO.

Tosh_67 · Aug 11, 2015

Somebody bought me a poker set which I think was 7 card stud when I was about 10... I had nobody to play with so I bought a book on Patience games and played those instead... Played Poker more seriously when I was about 20 ! But never as serious as today.. Was just a few mates playing for fun not really knowing how to play or bet properly...

Gumppoker · Aug 11, 2015

my uncle taught me the basics when i was young but everything since has been taught by me

NadezhdaFMS · Aug 11, 2015

I myself learned to play poker

Of course online game is different from a live session, mainly to play online poker))) learn the basics and then were developments

CSVidal · Aug 11, 2015

soon I learned to play at online poker beginning with a platform of party poker that teach the basics of the game. after I myself was seeking more knowledge in books and videos to improve my game

godofpoker07 · Aug 11, 2015

i used to watch wsop on tsn and espn before, doyle brunson and a few others were big names or at least people would talk about them more than others in the game at the time.

I have joined the pokerstars pokerschool and so far have enjoyed what they have to offer.

so tv and pso would be teachers in a way while practicing in tourneys at home sometimes.

ElgringoLoco · Aug 11, 2015

When I was 14 my father belonged to an underground jewish gambling club (long time ago). He was a professional Gin player, but a terrible poker player. Every Tuesday evening they would have the 400 min buy-in Stud Hi-Lo game. One night he was up big, so he bought me in and after that I would play each week, for a few years until I was old enough to play at indian reservations or the local veterans game.

It is unfortunate that it has become a dead game, it will always be my favorite probably because its how I got introduced, now people love omaha more. When I lived outside the country I could at least play on Stars.

rugby0 · Aug 11, 2015

Poker classes at my local college.

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