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| View Poll Results: When will you hit 1,000,000 hands of poker played? | |||
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13 | 14.77% |
| in 1-2 years |
  
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14 | 15.91% |
| in 3-5 years |
  
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19 | 21.59% |
| in 5-10 years |
  
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13 | 14.77% |
| in 11-20 years |
  
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11 | 12.50% |
| probably never |
  
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18 | 20.45% |
| Voters: 88. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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#1
03-23-2005, 02:07 PM
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online or live? where did you make your first serious start?
I want to get an idea of where you guys made your first SERIOUS start at playing poker. Most likely, we all learned and played our first poker hand in a casino or in a home game, but when you realized that this game is beatable and decided to start playing with some intelligence, was it while you were playing in a casino or online?
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#2
03-23-2005, 02:17 PM
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Re: online or live? where did you make your first serious start?
For those that voted online, would you mind sharing with us when you first logged on and when you first started winning. I'm trying to get an idea of how long this on-line phenomenon has been around.
As for me, I first logged on to PartyPoker on July 2003 and made my turn around in February 2004.
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#3
03-23-2005, 03:04 PM
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Re: online or live? where did you make your first serious start?
I voted live. But my first online experience was on Planet Poker in 1999. Planet had pretty much a monopoly back then and I remember beta testing Paradise who soon dominated the scene once going live. Of course they have since been buried by Party and affiliates.
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#4
03-23-2005, 04:32 PM
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Re: online or live? where did you make your first serious start?
I started playing in '98 or '99. I'm not even sure I owned a computer at the time, which is funny now that I'm looking back. It wasn't too long before I started playing online at Paradise, but the initial jump was live.
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03-23-2005, 06:14 PM
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Re: online or live? where did you make your first serious start?
Online -- Feb 04
.5/1 on Empire [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] In my last two days at 10/20, I've given back as much as I made in my first few months of poker. Ugh.
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03-24-2005, 01:21 AM
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Re: online or live? where did you make your first serious start?
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Online -- Feb 04 .5/1 on Empire [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] The same for me actually (except at party :P ). I read the forums for a while until I was pretty confident of beating the limit. I hopped right in with $125 (after bonus) and was lucky enough not to start off on a downswing.
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03-24-2005, 03:14 AM
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Re: online or live? where did you make your first serious start?
I started on October 31st, 2002. Signed up at Planet Poker. I played freerolls until March 26 2003 and then finally won a PL holdem tourney with 553 entrants. Got 25$ for it and boy was I proud! I know the exact date cause I printed the tourney results and am looking at it now. LOL! I also received planet points which helped me buy into better tourneys. Next month I won a Omaha Hilo PPE tourney and got 40$ more. I played with this money + 190$ more in deposits for more than a year. Then I went broke and moved to Party.
I still have over 400 planet points left if they haven't vanished, maybe I'll give their new software a try and play a PPE freeroll someday.
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#10
03-24-2005, 07:00 AM
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Re: online or live? where did you make your first serious start?
got my start on pacific poker
friend told me about a free set of poker chips (nice ones) and i was playing some home games so decided to go for, fiirst thing i did was read everything i could about poker. i assmilated the knowledge then started playing. this was all in august 04 that i started
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