What is the average age of an online poker player?

[BLieve]

I am surprised that Google turned up no studies surveys or any numbers for that matter. If I were to guess I would say the mean age is about 25. What would you say are the mean age median age and mode age?

 

[Poker Orifice]

I have read that it is 23yrs. old male. Pretty sure I read that in bluff Magazine awhile ago. (not sure what month, I get every issue)

 

[palku]

I would say much higher than that. You have to take into account that a large number of middle age and above individuals who play poker likewise plays online.

But as of the moment since no survey were ever release we have to contend ourselves with pure speculation.

 

[LineProducer]

I'd believe it it's a male in his mid to late twenties. With the legal gambling age of 21, the median age is going to rise.

 

[Poker Orifice]

Maybe you could set up a poll on here to see what the avg. age is for a Cardschat member is? My guess is that it'd be slightly higher than 23 due to there being quite a few older farts on here (myself included).
I know... looks young up there in pic., but only on account of raiding my stepmom's christmas presents (Oil of Olay.. it keeps them guessing).

 

[Makwa]

Ask Nick to show the numbers for this site, he has bdays for many members, sure it is part of regular data collection to sort these, along with gender, location, etc..

We have more older members than most forums I guess. A few of us are old enough to seriously skew the numbers upwards here; consider us outliers LOL...

Overall 23/Male is your mean or average online player I would think. Why u bring up median and mode is beyond me -- you want to be a statistician?

 

[Zorba]

Why u bring up median and mode is beyond me -- you want to be a statistician?

I think he musta meant MOD age here,^^^^ he probly has a crush on juiceeQ and dakota-xx.

I know I have.

 

[leon818]

i start playing online when i was 15. so i guess some online players might be underage as well. Base on this, i would say that the average should be around 22. ALso the elder players which got no skill on computer , will lower the result

 

[ckingriches]

I saw there's a 2 year Harvard study of 3,445 online poker players that suggested the average age was 27.9 (I assume that's the mean, although I share the OP's interest in the median and mode as well - can't help being a mathematician). It also suggest that almost 95% were male, which seems a little high, but may not reflect the most recent population of online players.

 

[BLieve]

Ask Nick to show the numbers for this site, he has bdays for many members, sure it is part of regular data collection to sort these, along with gender, location, etc..

We have more older members than most forums I guess. A few of us are old enough to seriously skew the numbers upwards here; consider us outliers LOL...

Overall 23/Male is your mean or average online player I would think. Why u bring up median and mode is beyond me -- you want to be a statistician?

That would be great if the moderators can release these numbers. I am just curious to see who my competition is

And you answered your own question on why I would bring up median and mode. From what I understand a handful of high numbers can weigh the mean upwards and give an inaccurate depiction of the actual field of play.

 

[ciukster]

my guess would be around the 21-25 mark.

 

[Tonawanda]

Forum Info Would Be Nice

Ask Nick to show the numbers for this site, he has bdays for many members, sure it is part of regular data collection to sort these, along with gender, location, etc..

We have more older members than most forums I guess. A few of us are old enough to seriously skew the numbers upwards here; consider us outliers LOL...

Nice idea, very interesting subject. We communicate regularly without having much of an idea of who we are talking to. It would be very nice to know more about the group in general. I guess I also qualify as an elder in this forum even though I don't think as myself as one.

 

[Debi]

I just checked and don't see anyway to get statistics based on age. A lot of members don't fill that out anyway.

 

[dan]

51 here

 

[adsthepro123]

now

In these days the average age is much lower than what was maybe 10 years ago if online poker was going then. These days the poker world has a lot of young great players who can win the big tournaments more than once or twice
adsthepro

 

[LarkMarlow]

That would be great if the moderators can release these numbers. I am just curious to see who my competition is

Fascinating. While I can understand your curiosity from a sociological or marketing point of view, I don't get the part about profiling the competition using that information. Are you thinking that poker prowess correlates with age in some way?

And you answered your own question on why I would bring up median and mode. From what I understand a handful of high numbers can weigh the mean upwards and give an inaccurate depiction of the actual field of play.

Why not write to support at individual sites, especially the big ones? Tell them you're doing a study or something. While you're at it, why not ask about the male/female ratio too? If nothing else, finding out whether they would release such stats would be interesting. You could also contact the various magazines and other poker news media.

 

[ethon]

I just checked and don't see anyway to get statistics based on age. A lot of members don't fill that out anyway.

You'd probably have to query them from the SQL database

 

[Makwa]

Fascinating.

While I can understand your curiosity from a sociological or marketing point of view, I don't get the part about profiling the competition using that information. Are you thinking that poker prowess correlates with age in some way?

Why not write to support at individual sites, especially the big ones? Tell them you're doing a study or something. While you're at it, why not ask about the male/female ratio too? If nothing else, finding out whether they would release such stats would be interesting. You could also contact the various magazines and other poker news media.

Thank you Spock

I think most would agree the more info you have on your villains, any kind, the better. Age and gender certainly figure high. Also, whats their income, how much do they have behind BRwise? Etc.

And where from?

Knowing u r up against a 21 year old multimicro wannabe makes tilting him that much easier, for instance... as opposed to the guys who have been around for years...

These things and more added up, help us profile villains.

So ya I would love to know the numbers overall for online players, also forum by forum (again I bet we skew upwards) and site by site.Someone is compiling these numbers, somewhere, as we speak...

 

[WurlyQ]

Mean > Median > Mode

 

[Makwa]

I just checked and don't see anyway to get statistics based on age. A lot of members don't fill that out anyway.

You'd probably have to query them from the SQL database

Yes there is a way of pulling that info for sure, from the database.

And Debi even if only 10% of 50,000 members gave a number, that is def statistically significant (and can be indicative of actual numbers)...

 

[WurlyQ]

Yes there is a way of pulling that info for sure, from the database.

And Debi even if only 10% of 50,000 members gave a number, that is def statistically significant (and can be indicative of actual numbers)...

There would be bias in the results because anyone that is under-aged would not put their real age.

 

[polingpower]

i'm teaching my 10yr nephew to play
he doing ok 3/10 itm for .25 Cnts games he's
just starting to understand the game more, more


LOL ... A 10yr od just pwned u ...as he say...pump his arms in the air

 

[superman4all]

i would say between 24 and 27 probably.

 

[Makwa]

There would be bias in the results because anyone that is under-aged would not put their real age.

That can be taken into account, as could the seniors or women (lol) who knock down their age. Any bias (and possible numbers associated) can be included in the analysis.

Bias does not stop one from using stat samples, but does qualify them. That is good when acknowledged.

Lets try to work with the numbers we have.... I mean err.. which we dont have yet but are there somewhere...

 

[WurlyQ]

That can be taken into account, as could the seniors or women (lol) who knock down their age. Any bias (and possible numbers associated) can be included in the analysis.

How would this be accounted for? You can't just cancel them.

Bias does not stop one from using stat samples, but does qualify them. That is good when acknowledged.

Lets try to work with the numbers we have.... I mean err.. which we dont have yet but are there somewhere...

I don't know what you mean by this but there is no statistical significance in using a biased sample. Looking at the observations that are available may give us some idea of what the overall distribution is but we can't have that much more confidence in it than an educated guess.