I am 43 years old and have been gambling since the age of about 17. At that age I played blackjack quite often, mostly home games with friends. I used to ride my bicycle about 3 miles every Friday night to the game. It was change games... more

As a young kid I was taught all sorts of games by my big brother, chess, backgammon, cribbage, and a whole host of other games too, and with him being seven years older than me, and pretty smart, he beat me at all of them. My mum would tell... more

By Christina DeJesus
Christina3kye@yahoo.com

I'm sitting at a 2-4 table in the Bally's casino on a Monday afternoon with lots of seniors. Everyone at the table is annoyed. They are irritated because it's only my fourth hand but I've managed to win... more

Thom is from Hong Kong, China. He quit college (University of Warwick, England) in 2004 because of his laziness. Most of the time he found himself in front of a computer surfing the net, and that's where his poker career began.

In his second year in college he played... more

I started playing poker approximately 13 years ago in some local house games in Akron, Ohio. At that time I was attending the University of Akron with no real plans for the future. I played about once a week for the first 2 months and was introduced to... more

After being swept up in the "poker craze" like the rest of the nation I started playing poker last year. We frequently go to Atlantic City (where I used to play only Blackjack and slots) When I decided to try playing in a live Poker game. So I sat down... more

In my teens, we had a regular card school going every Saturday night from 10pm until around 6am. We mostly played 3 card brag. Straights beat flushes, whereas when we occasionally switched to 5 card draw poker, flushes beat straights. Although we played every weekend for 2 years,... more

My son's birth was the greatest moment of my life - the only drawback was those sleepless nights. The lack of decent viewing at three in the morning led me to my computer where I quickly sacrificed the solitude of solitaire to the cut and thrust of internet poker.
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How I Started Playing Poker

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In the autumn of 2003, I was persuaded to 'give it a go' by a guy with whom I debated sporting issues on a British financial website. I've been 'giving it a go' ever since but I'm not sure that really... more

Down a side road in a small town in the hills of central West Virginia once sat an old building. This building was unique; not in that it was painted regularly (or at all), or in the way that inside one could find the rougher members of society, for... more