What Are Your Early Poker Memories?

[RobDoral]

I remember my grandmother crushing me and everyone else in the family in poker when we playing for beans

[SkinnyLittleTwig]

i remember losing at water poker

five card draw, player with the worst hand has to drink a glass of water. peeing equals giving up.

i have a hudge bladder too. running bad from the cradle to the grave, it seems

[The B]

Introduction to card-playing: playing 3 card GUT in the backwoods of Fairfax & Falls Church, VA

Early Poker Memories: treating $5 tourneys like WSOP events, wooden kitchen table w/ no felt, plastic chips, players w/sunglasses, players "trying" to shuffle plastic chips...the good ole' days

[benhoug]

Some of my earliest poker memories, were playing in nickel and dime games of 3-card Guts in high school, that would evolve into $100+ pots, sometimes even $200+. If you stayed in and lost you had to match the pot. I was pretty tight back then, so I was never on either end of those huge pots.

[metalfdoom]

playing 5 card draw with my friends and parents

[Don_Lapre]

Awesome post.

I remember skipping school and playing jacks or better trips to win. I won the biggest pot we had so far which was about $15, like $20 today. We also played guts and acey-ducey. Good memories.

[budblown]

hahahahahahahahhahahaha "was about $15, like $20 today" hahahahahahahahaha way to account for inflation hahahahahahahahahaha

[PiquetteAces]

1st time I play Hold'em in a casino; it was 10-20, & I was playing EVERY HANDS, & raising any Ace, any pair, & any suited. My only motivation to fold a hand was if I had to go to bathroom.

- jpp

[grando]

wow johnny you tell great stories

[DeeMo]

sneaking in at age 19 to the El Dorado in Gardena, eating crunchy noodle chow mein and watching Caro and other notables playing lowball...FTW