How did you get started playing poker?

[KRichard001]

I was bored at home once. I found a local poker site where you could play for free. That's how I started playing poker as a hobby. Then I discovered real money poker.

 

[ninocabral]

I started playing with my friends for fun and now I play daily

 

[istbno]

I got started in a pretty simple way a casual home game with friends. At first it was just about fun, small stakes, and learning the basics, but what hooked me wasn’t the money, it was the depth of the game. I realized pretty quickly that poker wasn’t just about the cards it was about decisions, psychology, and staying calm under pressure. After that, I became curious about strategy, started reading, reviewing hands, and trying to understand why certain plays worked. What began as a social game slowly turned into a mental challenge that kept pulling me back for more.

 

[Rmi]

With friends from my work

 

[BrunoFabri01]

One fine day I was bored and wanted to play some mobile games. I was looking at some card games, and one called poker popped up. "What's that? I'll try it." And then I couldn't stop.

 

[daniel.g]

My grandfather was a bookmaker for 55 years haha we had to visit the mob in Vegas… 3 times a year from Canada… let’s just say I was born into it.

 

[Propane Goat]

I used to be a real estate agent and would tour new listings every week, one house had a live wsop game with hole card cams running on TV and I thought that was the most interesting thing ever. This was in 2005, so the Moneymaker boom was in full swing and we also had Full Tilt play money games running in the office.

I was too busy and didn't pursue it further then, but got interested again around 2013 when I had returned to college and saw some classmates playing online, so I signed up on CardsChat to get freeroll passwords and have been here ever since.

 

[s0ftdumps]

The old man taught me. when i started beating him in chess he needed something he could still win at lol

 

[TheniT]

I started playing poker when I was at college, when I came back from college I always played freerolls and some micros, I remember once spending the night playing a tournament and winning $450, it was my first significant prize, I was very happy.

 

[Chunhong319]

We all have our own stories about how we got into the world of poker, whether it was through family, friends, or simply curiosity. I started with friends at a gathering; they introduced me to the wonderful world of poker. Tell me about your experience—how did you get started?

I actually started playing out of curiosity. At first it was just for fun, but once I began learning more about the strategy and depth of the game, it became much more interesting and competitive for me.

 

[Gaurav123p]

I has been playing poker since 2022.

 

[gloria_marga]

Ever since I was a child, I have always played with my family on the weekends at our table. It's like a traditional game in my family.

 

[phuchoidey1]

First time I come with poker that when I very small , perhaps 11 or 12 year old , I find it on a Nokia “game and learn to find how to play, everything not good and I alway lose I quit because there many good game than it with beautiful graphics then now when I 35 I find something to play and come back with it 😂

 

[ztibor72]

In the early 2000s, Texas NL Holdem tournaments (WSOP) started appearing on TV in Hungary, and I started as a result.

 

[Noodeloo]

It must have been from watching it on Tv and then trying to recreate what i saw with friends when i was about 16/17 - good times.

 

[Kirbs69]

We all have our own stories about how we got into the world of poker, whether it was through family, friends, or simply curiosity. I started with friends at a gathering; they introduced me to the wonderful world of poker. Tell me about your experience—how did you get started?

Influence by people.

 

[M6O6U6]

I started with a YouTube ad from the old Full Tilt era, around 2015.

 

[KeyPatience]

We all have our own stories about how we got into the world of poker, whether it was through family, friends, or simply curiosity. I started with friends at a gathering; they introduced me to the wonderful world of poker. Tell me about your experience—how did you get started?

One of my friends introduced me to Zynga Poker some 15 odd years back. 😁

 

[Leandro6803]

I started playing by chance. I saw that some professional players were playing in a big event in Brazil, so I looked into them and the game as well, and then I really liked the game and the possibility of earning some money.

 

[comini]

I learned in high school when I was 16 years old.