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parac_of_poker
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Thanks to my Granddad!
My Granddad started playing pitch with me when I was 5 yrs old. As I got older he also taught me draw, 5 & 7 stud awa no peek(family fav).
We played nickel dime with relatives in Missouri during holidays. I am thankful & appreciative for the great bonding sessions of cards with my Granddad. We laid him to rest in 2001 but not a day goes by that I find myself talking to him or thinking of how great a man he was.
Thanks again Granddad!! I Love & miss you ol' buddy!!!
One last thing, I d/n start playing hold'em until last yr online.
My Granddad started playing pitch with me when I was 5 yrs old. As I got older he also taught me draw, 5 & 7 stud awa no peek(family fav).
We played nickel dime with relatives in Missouri during holidays. I am thankful & appreciative for the great bonding sessions of cards with my Granddad. We laid him to rest in 2001 but not a day goes by that I find myself talking to him or thinking of how great a man he was.
Thanks again Granddad!! I Love & miss you ol' buddy!!!
One last thing, I d/n start playing hold'em until last yr online.
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scousemaster
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hi
I started out on the play chip tables and the freeroll's untill i got used to poker, seen it on the tv a few times and played like them (got azz kicked lol). after 12 months started playing money and live games, found the live play increased my play on the net and also the other way round, made a few wins now and hoping for the big one, lol
Scousemaster
Better to burn away than to blind away
I started out on the play chip tables and the freeroll's untill i got used to poker, seen it on the tv a few times and played like them (got azz kicked lol). after 12 months started playing money and live games, found the live play increased my play on the net and also the other way round, made a few wins now and hoping for the big one, lol
Scousemaster
Better to burn away than to blind away
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DonaldB
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Free Poker League
I learned to play with the No Fee Texas Holdem Amateur Poker League in Washington State. It is illegal, class C Felony, to gamble online in Washington. We do get a lot of players that have played online with the play money and they get whacked pretty hard when they play live. They are way too loose and way to aggressive and they have way too many tells but after a couple of weeks of getting busted out early they settle down and leave the donkey play for online. Our league buys the winners of its nightly games into the Little Creek Casino's satellite tournaments to their bigger buy-in events. This past weekend league members won a total of $5,660 dollars with three league members at the final table at Saturday's $135 main even and three league members at Sundays $175 main event.
My wife who also learned to play with the league took a three way chop and won $268 dollars at Saturday's regularly scheduled 5PM game and I followed up with a three way chop on Sunday for $260. Poker is how we spend our entertainment time... cause it pays!
I learned to play with the No Fee Texas Holdem Amateur Poker League in Washington State. It is illegal, class C Felony, to gamble online in Washington. We do get a lot of players that have played online with the play money and they get whacked pretty hard when they play live. They are way too loose and way to aggressive and they have way too many tells but after a couple of weeks of getting busted out early they settle down and leave the donkey play for online. Our league buys the winners of its nightly games into the Little Creek Casino's satellite tournaments to their bigger buy-in events. This past weekend league members won a total of $5,660 dollars with three league members at the final table at Saturday's $135 main even and three league members at Sundays $175 main event.
My wife who also learned to play with the league took a three way chop and won $268 dollars at Saturday's regularly scheduled 5PM game and I followed up with a three way chop on Sunday for $260. Poker is how we spend our entertainment time... cause it pays!
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EagleEyeKing
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Well my grandparents would always hold a family poker game when I was a kid. My grandma is the shiznit when it comes to poker, she makes so much money in poker it's unreal. I dont know what she does but she can play and she's not afraid to put her chips in the pot, lol. But she taught me, although I dont seem to do as well, mostly do to the fear-factor of losing money
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iriechief
Rock Star
Silver Level
I started playing low level limit holdem in Las Vegas back in 97. The game wasn't fast enough and bankroll swings were too frequent, so I got a friend of mine to send me $10 to start with at Paradise Poker. I slowly built that up to $100 and starting playing 1-2 limit, amazingly reaching $1500 before losing a few hundred playing BJ there and then cashing out. Using the money to hone my tournament skills.
wizard3461
Rising Star
Silver Level
getting started
It all started at a freinds house when i was 12 yrs old we would all meet on sat. with a jar of pennys an play all sorts of goofy games, dime store, baseball hi=lo jacks or better etc. We did that for years then we grew apart an went our seperate ways so no poker for a long time then i saw my kid playing on the computor one day an i was HOOKED! still learning this sly game of texas holdem but i love it!
Wiz!
It all started at a freinds house when i was 12 yrs old we would all meet on sat. with a jar of pennys an play all sorts of goofy games, dime store, baseball hi=lo jacks or better etc. We did that for years then we grew apart an went our seperate ways so no poker for a long time then i saw my kid playing on the computor one day an i was HOOKED! still learning this sly game of texas holdem but i love it!
Wiz!
blott
Rock Star
Silver Level
Learnt how to play poker at littlewoods play tables but didn't stay long as it was all in every hand.Then looked for a micro limits site and ended up at the old paradise site playng 1c/2c limit which was fun for a while and a good place to learn but too slow eventually.
Deposited then at bodog and played lots of 10 man sng paying 5 places which is great if ,like me , you play fairly tight ...you have to be bad to lose heavily in these.
All that was about 2 years ago. Am still learning everyday and enjoy playing other variants such as razz and stud at Stars.
Deposited then at bodog and played lots of 10 man sng paying 5 places which is great if ,like me , you play fairly tight ...you have to be bad to lose heavily in these.
All that was about 2 years ago. Am still learning everyday and enjoy playing other variants such as razz and stud at Stars.
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alan292
Rising Star
Bronze Level
my first experiences of poker run back into my childhood.....im sure many of players remember ducking down behind some building at school with a group of kids which was anything but descreet......online my first experience was in my brothers house ,cant remember what site i played but i was hooked.....had to get this into my house....began at pacific poker in december 2006 ,knew nothing about mtt's and headed straight to the play money cash tables.....won a few ...lost a few ...but had learned of these games where thee were lots of players,and you could enter for free.....and win real money......wooo this is for me.....2 weeks later and many finishes so close to payouts,combined with my hunger..maybe impatience......no greed to play in the bigger buyin tourneys i decided to deposit via my credit card....5 instalments of £20 later....i am begining to "feel the burn"....and i know i must close this down......thankfully i managed to do so,dont like to think what damage i could have done....after some thought i decided to return to the free games and if i couldnt win there i was giving up..........this is maybe a bit long winded but if one person who is new reads this then i will be happy one person has been saved from the trap.....i then discovered new sites and my knowledge of the game improved,i leaned a lot in other forums from players who had been successful.....and have never deposited again to this date....and do not intend to again.... ....but as for learning how to play poker.....do we ever stop?
....but as for learning how to play poker.....do we ever stop?
SavagePenguin
Put the win in penguin
Bronze Level
My father taught me the rules when I was young, but I was lousy.
I got the poker bug by watching the WPT on TV.
I didn't really learn to play until I entered a $100 charity tournament and knocked out on hand #5. After that my wife bought me a book, which lead to another book, and another, and then third place in my next tournament.
I got the poker bug by watching the WPT on TV.
I didn't really learn to play until I entered a $100 charity tournament and knocked out on hand #5. After that my wife bought me a book, which lead to another book, and another, and then third place in my next tournament.
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1nickthegreek
Visionary
Silver Level
Used to get drunk as a kid and play stupid poker a lot, but just got into playng "real" Holdem for play money about two months back, trying to weed through the all in idiots in the freerolls is super annoying, and I get sucked out pretty damn quick. Although since joining CC I have placed in the money four out of fifteen sit n go's I've played in the past 6 days.
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phisig6057
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I first started playing with some former co-workers, but really didn't have a cle at the time. Obviosly I was the scker at the table back then. Eventally I started playing online at partypoker with free chips for qite a while, then started to read everything I could find. Now I actually do well at the home games, and am slowly improving my online game. My sites now are UB or Fulltilt.
NuRelic
Rock Star
Silver Level
Started playing poker way back in ’81-’82 when I was 16. The family started holding a Saturday night poker night and when I was 16 I was invited in on a few nights. I mainly learned 5 and 7 card stud games along with draw games and there was always the BS wild cards, which at 16 was actually fun because I really had no idea what I was doing. After a few nights of Donking out a few wins, the family decided I didn’t need to keep playing and since my Mom was bankrolling my buy-in I didn’t have a lot to say about it.
I inevitably found a few games here and there in High School after that, but not many people that interested, so my interest started to drift. After High School I found a few games here and there but most of the time they were too few and too far apart to keep my interest. So as result I drifted into and out of gambling throughout my 20.
In my 30’s I really had no connection to anything poker related until one night in 2003 when I was flipping around and stumbled onto one of the first WPT shows. I caught it right at the beginning while channel surfing with my wife and boys and when it was finished I remember looking to my wife and saying, “Did we just watch 2 hours of poker?!”
That new format of seeing the whole cards snagged me and I finally had the bug bite me hard. I jumped onto the bandwagon along with everyone else. Right off the bat I knew that many of the hands being played out were really iffy, but seeing the big bluffs really did spike my interest. I started to read Sklansky, Harrington, along a few others and I found many worthwhile articles through Google searches. Today I am working on my own poker web site and still learning.
A buddy and I co-host a Home Grown Poker night that we hold every other month and we get between 30-40 players. I look at poker as a cool personal puzzle and a great social tool that brings people together. I have only met a few people at the card table that I wouldn’t call a friend and I can’t say the same about people I meet at work or anywhere else.
I inevitably found a few games here and there in High School after that, but not many people that interested, so my interest started to drift. After High School I found a few games here and there but most of the time they were too few and too far apart to keep my interest. So as result I drifted into and out of gambling throughout my 20.
In my 30’s I really had no connection to anything poker related until one night in 2003 when I was flipping around and stumbled onto one of the first WPT shows. I caught it right at the beginning while channel surfing with my wife and boys and when it was finished I remember looking to my wife and saying, “Did we just watch 2 hours of poker?!”
That new format of seeing the whole cards snagged me and I finally had the bug bite me hard. I jumped onto the bandwagon along with everyone else. Right off the bat I knew that many of the hands being played out were really iffy, but seeing the big bluffs really did spike my interest. I started to read Sklansky, Harrington, along a few others and I found many worthwhile articles through Google searches. Today I am working on my own poker web site and still learning.
A buddy and I co-host a Home Grown Poker night that we hold every other month and we get between 30-40 players. I look at poker as a cool personal puzzle and a great social tool that brings people together. I have only met a few people at the card table that I wouldn’t call a friend and I can’t say the same about people I meet at work or anywhere else.
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gtech01
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Watching poker on TV then Doyle's and Harrington's books. Went on to play money on the internet (Full Tilt, pokerstars, UltimateBet). Then on to real money games where I successfully lost $500.