How did you start playing poker

CHD

havn't started a thread in a while.

How did your find poker?how you start?whats the craic?

I saw the British open, with Padraig Parkinson in it on TV3 i think.He won it AFAIK.Went from there and taught my friends and havn't looked back.

yourself?

glenjamin

You taught me and now I hate you more and more every day

Headshot

CHD wrote: »

havn't started a thread in a while.

How did your find poker?how you start?whats the craic?


yourself?

i was taught at my previous job

every lunch time we have a few games

10 -20 cent bets

newbie2

Started playing in school - About 15 years ago. Was sh!t then. Only started taking it seriously the last 2/3 years. Still sh!t. I fcukin' hate poker.

pocketdooz

Sat down in Star City, Sydney with my cousin and won a pot worth nearly $1000 with Pocket Kings. Some guy kept betting in to me and as a calling station I kept on calling on the wettest board you've ever seen. He went all in on the river and I called instantly.

He turned over AK for Ace high and I raked in 2 weeks wages. I thought ' What's all the fuss about - This is an easy game '

Edit - it's been downhill since then !

Idu

Late Night Poker

Repeat x 1000

Get In There

18 months ago, started playing it on saturday nights with my mates as a means to amuse ourselves as we couldnt do anything too heavy cos of football the next morning. If I had known I was going to get addicted to it, I would have never played in the 1st place!!

tylerdurden94

Well i gave up me cocaine and meth addiction so i need some other form of sickness to replace that and i found POKER much worse than both combined :pac:

Seriously thou a friend of mine thought me how to play one day sitting out his back he had just started the DIT poker soc and was teaching a few of us since then ive never looked back strange thou coz he doesnt really play that much anymore.

Played a few of the student tournies then a few pub games first one i ever played Eddie The Eagle was there then one stumbled into The Sporting Emporium and thats how my foray into Poker started have to say ive loved it, more so the good than the bad obviously!

sitout

i was delt 5 cards , i raised , was called . stoot pat . raised again was reraised , then reraised and was called and lost the 7 pounds and 25 pence pot on a bluff. Thats how i started, and havent changed much since.:D

Marq

badly.

pok3rplaya

Marq wrote: »

badly.

How on earth did you stay so consistent?

MickL

Got a ticket to the first fitzfest in a paddypower and aint left a casino since

LuckyLloyd

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Glowingmind

My grandparents were poker-degens. My granny taught me 5 card draw and 7 card stud when i was about 5. Went through sporadic phases of playing for fun in primary and secondary school with a couple of my friends. Stopped for a few years and then Late Night Poker happened.

5 card draw in school. Pot of €1+, was like high stakes poker to me then.:(

kincsem

Probably started five card draw at about age six (no TV in them there days). My grandfather liked to bet on horses, and play cards, so was probably an influence. The fine Irish summers helped, as we always brought a few decks of cards westwards in July.

Marq

pok3rplaya wrote: »

How on earth did you stay so consistent?

years of practice.

mewso

Marq wrote: »

years of practice.

and moving up levels.

smurph

Many moons ago in a far away land my uncle used to run a 5Card Draw game in Our Lady of victories hall, Ballymun Road. Thats where I played. Got my one and only royal flush there and got the cards framed and presented to me.

About 1990 they started this "texas holdem" game for the people who were knocked out of the 5 card draw game. you had to sit in certain seats because the "regulars" had the favourite seats to sit in.

Game was the usual any Ace is golden, yepee ive got a picture card, let's go mental. you were allowed 3 rebuy-s and a top up. I was a donkey at the game, just a little bit less of a donkey now.

My biggest win was in the £200 5 Card draw freezeout game in Malahide Castle which was run at christmas time. There was also free entry into a Texas Holdem game which 80% of the field did not know how to play (some people were waiting for the 6th card etc.,) Anyhows I came 2nd for £455 (I was earning £70 a week at the time), so myself and my friend hoped into a taxi into leeson street and hit Buck Whaleys with my £450 in crisp old £50 notes in my Boots (I had to take the Monday and Tuesday off work lol)

califano

smurph wrote: »

so myself and my friend hoped into a taxi into leeson street and hit Buck Whaleys with my £450 in crisp old £50 notes in my Boots (I had to take the Monday and Tuesday off work lol)

Why do people think going to Leeson St is living it up?. You should have gone to Malahide village then on to Tamango's.:pac:

y

Found a colourful magazine inside a PC magazine i bought two years ago. HAd a rundown of hands and stories about online poker. Googled poker, saw paddy power, opened an account and have been feeding the sharks ever since......................:pac:

Dub13

rounders123 wrote: »

Why do people think going to Leeson St is living it up?. You should have gone to Malahide village then on to Tamango's.:pac:

Well said,Leeson St is sooo 1970s.

smurph

rounders123 wrote: »

Why do people think going to Leeson St is living it up?. You should have gone to Malahide village then on to Tamango's.:pac:

lol,
Tomango's back then wasn't the place where the "cool gang" go, also Buck Whaleys opened til 6ish and Da Mangooos closed bout 3......

YULETIRED

I've been to Tomangos once and it drove me to play poker.. I had many thoughts in there amonst them were, belly tops are not meant to be taken literally. Less is more girls, when wearing these things

zuutroy

Thanks to this thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055110611&highlight=poker

I decided to find out what all the fuss was about, and if there was more to it than soul-reading. Beforehand all I knew was 5 card draw which I absolutely hated.

SetOverSet

My first experience with poker was while staying over in a mates house when we were kids and his folks and a few relatives were playing 5 card draw for coppers. They showed us how to play and let the two of us play the one hand between us. We hadn't a clue and played every hand to show down, never folding once. We still managed to win about £2!

OverTheTop

SetOverSet wrote: »

My first experience with poker was while staying over in a mates house when we were kids and his folks and a few relatives were playing 5 card draw for coppers. They showed us how to play and let the two of us play the one hand between us. We hadn't a clue and played every hand to show down, never folding once. We still managed to win about £2!

go suck a lemon!

thedini

zuutroy wrote: »

Thanks to this thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055110611&highlight=poker

I decided to find out what all the fuss was about, and if there was more to it than soul-reading. Beforehand all I knew was 5 card draw which I absolutely hated.

thanks,just read all of it some cracking stuff in there all right.

Tight Ted

I'm amazed that I'm the first person to say it. Saw Rounders as a dumb kid, was blown away, went Wowww!!!!!!!!! Learned the rules of Texas Hold'Em online, and within a month I'd invited a couple of school mates around for a Saturday night winner-takes-all SNG with a flat-blind structure. (I didn't really like the blinds bit, so we actually just used antes instead). I was the first out. We played again the following Saturday in my mates house, where again, despite the fact that both times it was me who explained the rules to everyone (complete with a sheet that showed hand strenghs), I was the first out.

When I went to college there was a €10 + 1 rebuy & top-up every monday at a pub near me. This was actually a bit pricey for me at the time!! So I only played it only about three times, much prefered online where if I deposited €50 I usually could play for about 3 months before I'd bust out, didn't help with the degree though!

KINGofHEARTS

YORE MA thought me to play

yore ma ... the poster from after hours that is...

oooooooooohh ..ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh she taught me good your mama

Tight Ted

KINGofHEARTS wrote: »

YORE MA thought me to play

yore ma ... the poster from after hours that is...

oooooooooohh ..ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh she taught me good your mama

It seems to me that you are a VERY VERY rude man.

CHD

KINGofHEARTS wrote: »

YORE MA thought me to play

yore ma ... the poster from after hours that is...

oooooooooohh ..ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh she taught me good your mama

Dont remember starting this thread but your a bit of a gimp but a great person.Lets play heads up for a few grand or something.Yeah lets do that.

KINGofHEARTS

CHD wrote: »

Dont remember starting this thread but your a bit of a gimp but a great person.Lets play heads up for a few grand or something.Yeah lets do that.

haha ok... one one condition