How Old

[dmbfan7]

Is there an age requirement for this poker forum? There are a lot of 15 and under people on this site. However, I'm in the 27-35 category.

[dmbfan7]

Wow, I totally missed what the poll question really meant. I thought i was asking how old I am right now. I really started playing poker when I was between 15 and 17 years old.

[crkdog]

I got hooked about 20 years ago i had a huge home game every week

[frob23]

Almost every person on my mother's side of the family plays poker. As far as my memory goes back, they always have. There is rarely an extended gathering where poker isn't played, even if everyone plays for micro limits live. Because of this, I was familiar with the game from a very young age and was playing as soon as I could read my own hand. Those were brutal times and I learned a lot. When it comes to the game, my family has alligator blood. It's one reason they play small... because they have no problems taking every last penny you have. I used to remember getting birthday money and losing it soon after. During my early years, I lost pretty much every liquid asset a 5-6 year old can have... mostly candy and change.

Played with cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents, and just about everyone else. And we played all the time. I did eventually learn enough to become a winner... if only out of necessity. And still am able to take very small stakes seriously when I play because of that history. Even these days, we might play 2/5 cent NL when we get together and think nothing of it. Of course, back then it was only draw and stud (5 and 7 card) and we still play those games too.

After that, I pretty much played consistently whenever I could find a small stakes game. It was pretty hard to do that until high school and even then it wasn't regular. In college there were a few of us who would get together and play. Shortly after that... the Moneymaker thing happened... and I can find a game all the time and almost any level. I was also introduced to the concept of online poker at the same time -- which I had never heard of before despite being a huge computer geek. It was several years before I was willing to put real money online though because I was much more comfortable risking it live.

Basically, I have played forever. But it is funny. I still love 7 stud... and when I play live at the local card-room, I am the only player under 60 there. I look very out of place. But I like that, in a way. I am often mistaken for a hold-em player who sat at the wrong table. We still play some Canadian 5 stud among family... but I don't know anyone who plays 5 stud outside my family.

[sledracer01]

i was 12 when i started playing poker


so im 20 now when i turn 21 ill have 9 years experience

[Amut]

I started poker leagues at my bar. Never played hold em before. bout a year ago. In about a 3 months I started winning. I even won the Mn poker league and was sposed to go to the state tourny for WSP. Couldnt make it tho, so now I've been hoooked ever since. Biggest lesson thogh it all is QUIT BLUFFING. once I learned I couldnt win every pot, I started winning the tournys. Funny.

[SolidGoldy]

I started also when I was 15 years

[Vito_Nuccio]

I was about 7 when I learned how to play poker. After holiday dinners at Aunt Sadie's house I would hit my mother up for whatever change she had in her purse and the family sat down and played 1-2 cent 7 stud and screw your neighbor. Even at that age the thing I looked forward to the most about holidays was the after dinner poker. Wow, that was 34 years ago......and I still look forward to every poker session, every day!

Poker Rocks!

See you at the tables.

[I Eat Gamblers]

When i was 26 i suffered a knee injury that resulted in multiple surgeries so i had alot of time on my hands. Poker was taking off, so i decided to give it a try and have been hooked ever since

[Markie141]

I started by playing draw and stud when I was a teenager and then learned holdem and now I usually play omaha hilo and stud hilo and razz , or sometimes HORSE or holdem.

[martinrobinson]

I leaned poker when I was 16 years old, that time i was inpired from my teacher as he was crazy for poker.

[liladypokerpro]

I started when I was about 6 or 7 LOL and I'll be 28 this year

[AnArkhos]

I started to play poker games when I was around 8. First it was a finnish version of 5 card stud called sökö, and 5 card draw. Then, when internet poker raised its head in Finland, I started playing holdem, omaha and other games too. First live with friends and gradually tried it out on the internet too.

Now I study poker to become good enough at it to make a little cash on the side, maybe even alot, but not as a profession.

[PointerJake]

I started playing at around 18. we used to play seven card stud hi spade in the whole, dueces wild and all sorts of made up games. Then I fould holdem! Hooked everysince.