Joined: Jan '08
Location: Sweden
Age: 66 (M)
Posts: 297
My family played alot of cardgames and i was stuck to it. When i was 18 i went to casino and then i played blackjack and other games..THen 1998 i started to play onlinepoker..
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Lithuania
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 20
First of all friend told about battlefield and said that i don't have to pay for plaing in real money.I thought i can make money there.But when i started i liked the adrenaline, fun, comunicating, etc.
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Norway
Age: 68 (F)
Posts: 18
It all started when I saw High Stakes Poker at TV for the first time. I watched it and learned a lot. So I got tempted to try it out myself, began with local games with friends and then onto FTP.
At that point it was OK, but when I started winning big it got a lot more than OK, it was adrenaline and big amounts of fun and excitement.
Got several friends to try online poker too at this point, though no one got as much into it as I did. ^^
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Brazil
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 1788
Very interesting Biddle! Did you play any card games or gamble before poker? Do you think it is something you will continue to do for the rest of your life or is it just a temporary hobby?
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 142
ouf on i begint play with chips my friends say come we try for real... so i have fun now i love it realy and i have with one a half year some experience. so i will try to play now for beginn with no deposit to test my knowlogie how much i am good later maybe with my own deposit..we all here to win money and to have fun we schould not lie that is not a reason too
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Netherlands
Age: 41 (F)
Posts: 46
I started together with my husband: We used to stay up until 1.30 a.m. and the only thing on t.v. besides commercials for webcamgirls was poker. I hated it, but it was better than watching the same girls with the same teabag titties saying that we should come watch them on www.something.nl. But i didn't understand the first thing about that stupid, stupid game where three two's were better than two aces. (who makes up such a dumb game anyway?) So because we didn't want to go to sleep earlier and we were forced to watch poker every night, we went online to find out how come three two's beat two aces. Of course we found out and after that we thought: ok, well we can do that just as good as some guy calling himself devilfish. So we started playing for play money... still not understanding half of it, because why on earth does the other guy who has a worse hand than us get more chips than us if we go all in on the flop????? stupid stupid game. So we couldn't stand not understanding... and we had to learn more AND play more. And now i'm with PA (pokerplayers anonymous, joke)
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Netherlands
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 136
i started playing wenn i saw the big prices on tv and i loved how some players reacted... but my first experiance was on second life that is where i learned a lot .
Joined: Dec '07
Location: Slovakia
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 824
Posted by leendertjandw: i started playing wenn i saw the big prices on tv and i loved how some players reacted... but my first experiance was on second life that is where i learned a lot .
Joined: Feb '08
Location: United States
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 179
besides the rush of hitting the nuts on the river in a huge pot... the money to win is also a huge plus in playing poker... hah how can u not like POKER????
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 142
for me is poker a really nice hobby and i have really much fun so i looking really often now TV and look the pros how they play we can learn really much from them...did any know a tv site for poker??
i started playing poker when i start the university, in first semester, i start playing poker for fun, later for 1$, and now i play 5$ pots in 16 table online....LOVE POKER!!!
Joined: Feb '08
Location: United States
Age: 54 (M)
Posts: 407
I started playing when i was 10 years old. everytime we would have a family get together all the adults would be plying poker and i saw all the money. so i asked and started to play. I love the excitement.