Weekly Poll: November 4 - November 11

[Hollay]

Vote in our weekly poll to be automatically entered into a draw to win Hollywood Poker gear!

This week's poll question: How did you learn to play poker?

[KietoFrito]

Every holiday when I growing up as far back as I can remember, after the meal, the women would go wash the dishes and my uncles and grandfather would go in the back and play poker. My brother and I would be the beer fetchers occasionally grabbing one and splitting it. lol. We would watch for hours and learn. I had one uncle who would walk around the table and observe for awhile before taking a seat. I do that to this day when I go to a casino. My brother, who is now deceased, and I had our first game when I was 11 and he was ten with some neighborhood kids. We taught them how to lose their money. :roflmao:

[Icebanger1]

I learned off of TV and then relearned everything online cuz I had no clue.

[honey_comb1]

I learned Black Jack from my uncle first, then 3 card poker which I still love then. I found holdem after that. I learned on-line poker from watching and following Cgar around for 3 weeks here at Hollywood. He of course didn't know I was watching him like a hawk trying to learn his strategies. :happy: It did pay off for me because I then started to have confidence in my play and also made two great friends in Cgar and Belladonna.

So I have to go with voting that I learned from friends.

Thanks Cgar and Bella for puttin up with me!!! :happy: :waytogo: :hugs:

[Three Wood]

In 1955 a friend of mine told me about a fun game, he told me to bring my bank! We played 5 card draw and 5 card stud until my $3.74 was totally gone! Over the years I have loved to watch and play poker! Still trying to get my $3.74 back!

[DonnieB13]

I learned the basics from watching the World Series on TV. Then I got hooked and went online and learned some more. Then I really got hooked and borrowed every book I could get my hands on from the library and learned a lot more. Now I just learn every time I play, when I watch it on TV and any new books I come across. I guess you could say I'm ADDICTED!! :waytogo:

[miss_wacky]

yes had poker game atleast 2 times a month but as we got older the games soon disappeared friends move away one time we were playing a nice game of poker and it was a last game of the night 5 of us really had great cards well one friend decide to bet on his pr of kings well it turn out we were playing that last hand with a deck of pinnocole cards which my brother put in the game till tis day his friend says you have a extra king it was so funny i guess you had to be there but it was nice playing games with friends :roflmao: i try always to sit 3rd from the dealer my lucky number 3

[Gipeddo]

My friend had been bugging me to play poker, but the dealers choice games i had played in had killed my taste for the game. So in a drunken weekend at a friends cabin we started playing $5 tourneys and it is all history from there.

[Lady357]

I learned to play poker from watching my Dad, Uncles & Grandpa play together
after Thanksgiving & Christmas dinners. I learned early on that it was much
more enjoyable to sit on my Dad or Grandpa's knee & get an education
in card play than gather with the other girls & women in the kitchen &
clean up messy dishes!
As I got older my Dad would host weekly poker games while my Mom was
at work, usually 7 card Stud. I always found a reason to hang out in
the basement with the guys. Fridg runner for beer was a favorite job & gave me an excuse to be around. I kept quiet & didn't bother anyone so they
let me occupy a corner of the table to observe.
Once I got married I continued the tradition & began hosting weekly games
with our friends. Usually having a game on both Friday & Saturday evenings.
Some of the best times of my life were those friendly games in my own
dining room.
I stopped playing for a time, but once poker online started up & NL Hold'em began to surface in earnest the old yen was back. I picked up the basics of NL Hold'em & Omaha & now play several sites besides HP. I still like to play
Stud but having a variety of games & sites to play is just like life. It adds spice!

Cya at the tables... :greenboun

[BellaDonna60]

Well let's see.. First I'd love to thank my hubby, Cgar61 for all his advice. I don't always take it , but that's just me. Second I'd like to thank The World Poker Tour, for letting me learn to play form the Pros. And Third I'd like to thank everyone on HP for teaching me how to play all the players who thingk they are Gus Hansen and Chris Moneymaker by playing anything and everything. And I'd like to thank HoneyComb for always being herself, friendly upbeat and always the lady. HoneyHag. Call us anytime Honey. :hpmissspa

[Cgar61]

Been playing card games in Casino's for a lot of years Blackjack and poker ,gave up the pits to only play Poker now . Also i got different poker books and DVD'S on the game . I always am reading something on the game , in the books or in the many Poker mags i get . Never stop learning about the game . And tho some may think i only play by the book they are wrong i have many trick in my game .You play poker by the year not by the day . And i play the long game .Anything can happen in the short run . And Honey glad i could help even tho i did not know you were watching me. lol :waytogo: .


Good luck Cgar :hpmrclub:

[xDAVEANOVAx]

:spade: Actually, when I was a young lad my brothers taught me how to play WAR. It taught me to recognize the rank of cards. Later, my Father taught me how to play RUMMY, which taught me about three of a kind, str8's, and suited str8's, drawing and strategy. Later in life, when I was on my second job, I had to join the union (UAW) and every month after the meeting, there were one or two games going. I did a lot of observing. Soon, I was talked into sitting down and later attending private games at the guys homes and playing at Stags. I was finally on the slippery slope and lo and behold here I am. DAVEANOVA DMA :dance:

[macsrule_va1]

who cares ... i'm just voting to get the swag .... do you think I will win lol

macs

[donelton]

Vote in our weekly poll to be automatically entered into a draw to win Hollywood Poker gear!

This week's poll question: How did you learn to play poker?

I learned in high school.

[Gary_J]

Poker has always been part of my life since I can remember. Every holiday, family reunion or any get together like that, would always end up in a poker game. As I grew older it progressed into games with friends on a regular basis. Poker has become part of my life now and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Although our family game is no longer played anymore due to the passing of my father, oldest brother and uncle, I wouldn't trade those days for anything in this world! They have to be some of the fondest memories I have and will never forget them. For that reason alone, I have a huge passion for poker and will continue to play til I no longer can!

[Subs x]

Courtesy the US Navy (Submarine Service).



Subs x

[Hollay]

I first learned poker hands by playing Big 2 (am I the only person who's ever heard of this game?!)

Then, my cousin decided it was time to take it up a notch and he encouraged me to start playing Pineapple, which is still my favorite poker game. :waytogo:

[KietoFrito]

If thats the game I am thinking Hollay, we called it Pineapple Pitch. You got dealt 5 cards and you pitched one before the flop. Then It was Omahell hi lo. Made for some big pots. Heck, we even played a game called Carioca. Not to be confused with Karaoke. Everyone was dealt 4 cards and all four could be used with any two on the board. It was Omahell after that. That was a real crazy game and made for some big pots in a short handed game. There was another game in Hold em we played but don't remember the name of it.

Everyone was dealt 4 cards. 10 players. Ya pitched one before flop and then one after flop. It was NL after that. That had to be the most expensive game I ever played in my life. :roflmao:

[UrHukleberry]

Prison. You have to take enough cash off the white guys so you can lose to the guards and keep getting favors and such, but have a game with the black guys for smokes so I can trade and keep the lifestyle I had become accustomed to.

[Hollay]

If thats the game I am thinking Hollay, we called it Pineapple Pitch. You got dealt 5 cards and you pitched one before the flop. Then It was Omahell hi lo. Made for some big pots. Heck, we even played a game called Carioca. Not to be confused with Karaoke. Everyone was dealt 4 cards and all four could be used with any two on the board. It was Omahell after that. That was a real crazy game and made for some big pots in a short handed game. There was another game in Hold em we played but don't remember the name of it.

Everyone was dealt 4 cards. 10 players. Ya pitched one before flop and then one after flop. It was NL after that. That had to be the most expensive game I ever played in my life. :roflmao:


Yeah, that sounds about right. I guess I'm one of the many that can't quite recall everything about their misspent youth :silly:

[Al N Smithee]

Michael would go with his friends to the boats (on the Ohio River Casinos) or Tunica. No matter how well they all did or didn't do, Michael was always the one they would come back talking about. He routinely did far better than any of them and never came home with a penny of it. About half his friends usually had a little something to show for their troubles.

He is great at remembering all cards played, bets, raises and reraises, when where by whom and usually how much. And he can do this back over ten hands or more. He is amazing. What he lacks is discipline. Otherwise, a great player. He is my best example of how to and how NOT to play this game.

Once on-line poker started getting really popular he asked if he could download a site on our home computer. I said he could if he'd limit himself to deposits of $100. max. I'd never played poker, other than a short while in highschool where I learned I couldn't afford to play it. But I watched this NL Hold'em my son played over his shoulders every night. That is how I came to learn to play this game.

Michael night after night, would take his $100. up as high as $500/600. in the ring games in about 1/2 to 1 hour or less, and then lose it all in one or two big hands. Finally, when I knew enough about the game, we came up with a plan. His average take before crashing was always over $300. so I said from now on when you get over $300. Stop!!!. That worked for about two weeks and he made nearly $3,000. But then he took that to Tunica and came back busted again. So I removed the software and closed the account.

But a few month's later I started my own account and began to play some myself with varying results. Overall however, I went down just under $2k in six months and about to give it up, when I started to win. I played the next six months staying even and other than opening a new site, have never deposited again. I put $100. on a new site and if I can run it up, I continue to play there and if I lose it, I move on. Early this year I began to be able to take a little off every now and again.

I've read Doyle's Bible and many books, some cd's and talked to many players I admire to get my game where it is today. It is not large, but it is mostly consistent. I've been playing just over a year now and have not been playing 'dead money' since July when I came in 3rd in a big tourney on another site. I paid off my roughly $2k 'poker educational tuition' and gave the rest to the family minus a new high back leather chair I bought for myself to replace the one I was spending 100's of hours sitting on with its uncomfortable seat and low back. Not a living (yet) but a lot of fun and extremely interesting as I now relate nearly everything in life to analogies of poker playing. And it works well.