What Are Your Early Poker Memories?

[salesbeast]

Playing for fun not caring about pushing with 94os then the 100% Deposit bonus....gg life!

[Bagonirix]

Playing play money on PP. Turned 2K into 80K lol.

[SuperUberBob]

Sick story Johnny. Let us know when this book of yours comes out.

[Kmon]

can i get cliff notes for chapter 1,

all junior high through highschool we had a group of 6-12 gamblers, we would play 9 hand bj high hands wins, and ties play again.

Jacks or better for 50-150 bucks sometimes when we were 16.

acey ducey, and handful of other games, then when we would play from 7pm till 1 go out to some cars and stealchange out and then go home and gamble that.

playing poker with my mom and dad was always good, my father was a mad man, played through college, and now i'm a degen, betting on football $20 bucks a game. and prop bets out the yang, betting on which side the elevator comes up, how late the boss comes in late.

And i love every minute of it, it's sad gambling took away the innocence of natural competition, but bowling is so much more fun when there is $100 in swings. ($1 games fyi, $1 beers), and football games that aren't my fav team (STEELERS) are more fun then ever breaking the spread.

[enjoileo]

My first poker memories was from when I was in primary school, I was probably about eleven at the time. My class had this fake money system, if you did your homework or got an award or something you would get a little slip of paper made to look like a 5 dollar note.

When it would rain and we couldn't go outside we would sit in this hall and play 5 card draw for the fake monies. I even remember my first bluff, I got dealt some trash, looked at my cards and exclaimed "whoah this is the best hand!" and then I bet heavily and everybody folded in fear.

[yellowjack]

I was 18 and found a homegame to join on RGP. I was greeted by five 40-60 year olds at a restaurant, it was awkward. At the house the host asked for my ID and I produced a fake one. I had no clue what I was doing in a $50 sng but managed to bubble. Also, I think Greg Mueller joined halfway through but I don't recall if it was him or not.

[Dr. Detroit]

15 years old...seeing a kid lose an Elite 350 Moped playing spread stud and thinking "How the hell do you explain that?"

17 years old...4 of us pooling our money to sneak into an Indian Casino underage and raping the 5/10 PL game. Paid for Senior Year Spring Break...

[BigBuffet]

My earliest memory of real poker (not in a kitchen game) was railbirding a table in Vegas twenty years ago. Back then I played blackjack.

Anyway, it was a three-handed table. Two white guys and a azn woman. The guys were clearly partners and raised the chick every street and every hand. She was like a ping-pong ball between them.

I didn't know how to play poker back then, but I learned one thing: RAISING is goooot [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[BigBuffet]

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In the late 1950s and the early 1960s, Maverick was a hit television series starring James Garner. He was a wise-cracking, comedic, and cowardly poker player who traveled all around the Old West. This TV series spawned a mini-boom in poker much like Rounders created a real boom in poker in the 1990s. Buddy and Matt realized it was like a weekly commercial for the poker games they ran. All the college crowd gave it a go at trying to be like Maverick, a devout anti-hero. Buddy and Matt often sang the theme song: Who is the tall dark stranger there? Maverick is his name. Riding the trail to who-knows-where. Luck is his companion. Gamblin' is his game.

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Loved that show (in reruns). It was basically the precursor to Rockford-used his wits instead of a gun.

Don't forget the part of the theme about 'running with Jacks and Queens' or something like that...

[fraac]

Winning or losing, whatever.