I started playing cards with my grandparents [like everyone else]. Originally with good old fashioned war, then branching out to crazy things like Gin and Rummy, and Gin rummy.
Then, one fateful day in 6th or 7th grade I read a Stephen King story entitled "Hearts in Atlantis". It was about how the card game hearts ruined the lives of a group of college kids, causing them to flunk out, etc, from playing so much. The story intrigued me. I wanted to learn the game that ruined these characters' lives.
Just so happens that every microsoft windows program comes with Hearts. So I taught myself how to play [it took a while]. Then I went on yahoo.com and learned every other card came I could. Euchre, spades, canasta, cribbage, sheepshead and somewhere in there, poker. I've been playing ever since, for better or worse. Although I have been playing a LOT more these past few years because it is all of a sudden "cool".
What a great story. I could never learn pionocle though. Hard game.
Then, one fateful day in 6th or 7th grade I read a Stephen King story entitled "Hearts in Atlantis". It was about how the card game hearts ruined the lives of a group of college kids, causing them to flunk out, etc, from playing so much. The story intrigued me. I wanted to learn the game that ruined these characters' lives.
Just so happens that every microsoft windows program comes with Hearts. So I taught myself how to play [it took a while]. Then I went on yahoo.com and learned every other card came I could. Euchre, spades, canasta, cribbage, sheepshead and somewhere in there, poker. I've been playing ever since, for better or worse. Although I have been playing a LOT more these past few years because it is all of a sudden "cool".
What a great story. I could never learn pionocle though. Hard game.
I could tell you but.... then i'd have to kill you. But seriously, the best education I got was having to wait an hour to be able to get more play money. So instead of being paitent to get more coins I learn to be paitent to play what I thought were the right hands. Funny game it is, a million and one ways the cards will fall and a million and two correct ways to play em.
I started to play when my two brothers really got into it a few years back. Funny enough, I normally hate sports (even though poker probably isn't a sport in some people's minds) that they got into, but I did like poker. Something about it made me want to get better at it. Then once the poker boom started, well I played more online. I got off it a bit, when they shut down most sites to US players, but now getting back in it again. So, anyone with tips for me, more than welcome, I always listen to others' opinions, as long as they seem friendly enough.
i learned playing on pokerstars when it just came out, i was just playing computer games and a few nerds challenged me to play cards so i went with em, it was really fun gaming with them in a different scenario from wars and stuff so we all got into it thinking we were going to become better players 🙂
oh yah after lossing about 200 playing a the local poker club i decided to read a few of Doyles books, super systems i think gave me the basic knowledge i needed to play at an average level.
oh yah after lossing about 200 playing a the local poker club i decided to read a few of Doyles books, super systems i think gave me the basic knowledge i needed to play at an average level.
Last edited by a moderator:
Im associated in a poker club from Brazil (Clube do Poker) and play freerools and play money. Now, 8 months after, I play real money and win a lot freerolls over the poker sites.
Where'd I Learn?
I learned at about the age of 14, playing with a roll of quarters once a week with 4 or 5 friends. We quickly learned all the different poker variations and played "dealer's choice" format for a few years before finally settling into hold'em.
We played all the time until college separated us, and now I use online games to keep my interest in the sport going.
I learned at about the age of 14, playing with a roll of quarters once a week with 4 or 5 friends. We quickly learned all the different poker variations and played "dealer's choice" format for a few years before finally settling into hold'em.
We played all the time until college separated us, and now I use online games to keep my interest in the sport going.
I have always enjoyed gambling and make the occasonial visit to my local (Indiana) riverboat. Got interested in hold-em by watching TV like a bunch of y'all. I decided to try my luck and opened an account at Noble Poker and found that I loved playing. At that time I did not have a home computer, so I played at work in the evening and on week ends...lucky I did not get fired. For Christmas a year ago my wife bought me a computer so I would stay home and not spent so much time at work. Be careful what you wish for...you may just get it....now I spend every free moment playing poker....I love it !!
i started out playing small $5 tourneys with friends, eventually we started making buyins more and then i just recently started playing poker online and at the casino
My father loved to play cards, and taught me to play pinochle when I was still in my teens. My parents and other family members would hold Rook tournaments--they'd keep the same score sheets for years.
In grad school I played spades, hearts, and a little bridge. When I got married, hubby and I would play rummy with his parents. But poker didn't come into my life until just a few years ago, when I started watching the wsop on TV. I then went online and started playing in the free areas. It didn't take me long to realize that what goes on there is not really poker 😀. I opened an account and played for a while for cash, but closed it out after stupid Congress passed the stupid law 🙄.
Hubby and I took a trip to Atlantic City last fall, and I played in my first casino game. I was hooked 😀. Fortunately here in Oklahoma we have a wide variety of casinos within a reasonable driving distance of my house, and I found one I enjoy tremendously where I now play every weekend.
I've read a few books (Dan Harrington's is my favorite), but most of what I've learned is just from plugging away at the tables. Betting is still the weakest part of my game, but I'm getting better at taking a few chances now and then 🙂.
RA
In grad school I played spades, hearts, and a little bridge. When I got married, hubby and I would play rummy with his parents. But poker didn't come into my life until just a few years ago, when I started watching the wsop on TV. I then went online and started playing in the free areas. It didn't take me long to realize that what goes on there is not really poker 😀. I opened an account and played for a while for cash, but closed it out after stupid Congress passed the stupid law 🙄.
Hubby and I took a trip to Atlantic City last fall, and I played in my first casino game. I was hooked 😀. Fortunately here in Oklahoma we have a wide variety of casinos within a reasonable driving distance of my house, and I found one I enjoy tremendously where I now play every weekend.
I've read a few books (Dan Harrington's is my favorite), but most of what I've learned is just from plugging away at the tables. Betting is still the weakest part of my game, but I'm getting better at taking a few chances now and then 🙂.
RA
