Online poker demographics

[dm34]

Anyone have info on this? My friend keeps trying to tell me that most players (amount and money-wise) are college students, but I disagree.

[Griffin]

I am interested in this too. I don't have an answer, but hope someone else does.

I also wonder how the demographics change as you move up in limits. I would think that the type of people playing 5/10 and higher are probably different from your typical 2/4 and lower limit players.

FWIW, I play limits between .5/1 and 2/4 and I'm a 37 year old, middle income, father of three.

[Webster]

Well - there are probebly a LOT of Students wasting mmmoney playing poorly (because of the WPT) but I'd say it runs the gamut! Probebly early 30's (I'm 50 and 2 friends of mine that play and win are 50's).

[JKratzer]

I turned 21 yesterday, attend the U of Iowa, have been playing poker online since I was 18, and have never bought in on a site more than the once. I have three roommates, two of whom each are winning online poker players (the other doesn't play). I know many people at college that play poker, few play online.

From my own experience, I think most online players are not college students, although there are a decent number. Also, I think the students are on average better. I give more credit to someone I know is in college, their money means more to them and not many college students can keep throwing money away if they're not good. I play mainly 1/2 NLHE, 50 or 100 SNG's, and occasionally some various limit games.

[luckycharms]

I just turned 18 two weeks ago [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img].... but I read up and win (last 2 months: +512) [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Roy Munson]

40 year old married man.
BS University of Maryland Class of 85

[John Deere]

21 years old. Graduated last week with a B.S. in computer science from the University of Maryland. Now living in DC and starting work next week for a B2B software development firm in Tyson's Corner, VA.

Started playing a year ago and reading and studying pretty passively, making infrequent trips to AC. Really got educated and thinking more seriously following a trip to Vegas two weeks ago. Started playing $0.50/$1 on Party about 5 days ago with $50, and am currently at about $130. When I start work, I expect to play one or two hours every night.

[luckycharms]

Just turned 18 one month ago, been playing ring games for about half a year now. Deposited $50 into Party about 3 months ago, played .5/1 and worked it up to $150, lost it all on a huge tilt session.
Currently play home ring games, with initial deposit of $20 which is now $520 (over the last 75 days) Play about an hour of poker a day. Just finished Caro's Tells and TOP. Goal for the year: establish a good bankroll online and enter a WPT satelite (sounds ridiculous, but would be a lot of fun)

[Shaun]

25 years old. Been playing poker since I was 19. Online since I was 21. Poker got me through college. I have a virtually useless Humanities degree and planned on going to graduate school until recently, when I decided that getting thousands of dollars into debt to make little money in the world of academia was a bad idea. I may still go to grad school at some point, but probably not for at least a year.

I have been playing for a living since August.

Anyway I love poker, and no matter what I am going to do in the future, poker will always be a source of enjoyment (and cash hopefully) for me.

[Brian]

19 year old high school drop-out.

-Brian