When did you start playing Holdem?

[supersubadam_g]

I've been playing HoldEm for about 2 years, ever since I watched the Poker Millions tournament on TV and taught myself the rules.

[coronagi]

I start playing in july, I see on television some of my frind was playing then I start.
But I play less times then I want, because I had to work and when I go home I had my family, then very little time for poker

[bloodshot]

i started when i was 10 or 11, been playing ever since

[Bigcoltsfan86]

I started playing in the early 90's, and my early 20's while working nightshift at an oil refinery where we would have some down time. We played nickle ante dealer's choice. I went about 10 years without playing at all, until our church hired a new preacher, and he came in talking about this game called "texas holdem".
I hated it but I played and insisted on spending time playing dealer's choice so we could play some real poker like 7 stud and 5 draw no wild cards
Then as time went on, I kind of got hooked on his game
and then came on-line poker. Now I play a lot of holdem as well as all the games associated with horse.

[B-TownRounder]

I started playing about 5 years ago. Online for around 3.

[jmr19114425]

Started playing online about 2003, around when Moneymaker won the WSOP and poker televised was starting to boom....Now play online and at card rooms and try to find home games whenever i can.

[NeverGetEnough]

I started playing in 2004 when I was a junior in high school. The poker boom just happened and it was all the rage. I was horrible. I had no idea about the basic mechanics and odds of Hold em. Pot odds and implied odds were not a part of my normal vocabulary. It wasn't until I did some reading a year or so ago that I started to understand the game.

[soccerboi098]

i've been playin for something like 3 or 4 years now and i would consider myself semi pro

[emb_2]

i started playing after 3 or 4 years ago after watching a couple of wsop events on espn. a couple buddies had a game going and invited me to play and i've been hooked ever since.

[dcultra]

i started playing NLHE back in 1995.
i've always enjoyed poker.

when i was 12, we were playing 5 card draw with fake chips.. and... well
i drew and made a royal... hah. you can say... the first time got me.

played a lot during end of '04 to mid '05.
was good for a while.
then the bad run came.... hah. oh well... life goes on.