When did you start to play poker on the Internet in a regular (or semi-regular) basis?

I remember I deposited $500 in Paradise circa 2000,2001, played one session of 10-20, lost and thought it was rigged.

It was until Moneymaker when I overcome my online fear and deposited again on June 14, 2003

Played semi-regularly since then, so my online poker age is 4 years, 2 months and 17 days.

BTW my first game was a $5 sit&go on Party.

What's your age? What was your first game?

Got $.90 for free in a crappy promotion at a small site called All-In Poker. I started out with the lowest limits, $.05/$.10 Limit, didn't go broke, and practiced proper bankroll management when I finally got a bankroll ($30). That was in April 2006.

I remember when I had turned that into $5, a guy sat down at my table with $600 and said that poker was all luck and no skill. To demonstrate this, he wasn't going to do anything at all except for raise. I took 100BBs off of him ($10).

Now I play 2/4 to 5/10 NL on FTP and my bankroll is nearly $40k.

My first deposit was on 8/28/2005, so I'm 2 years and 2 days old.

At first I played NL10 cash games, as well as $5.50 SnGs and MTTs. This was way before I even when what I was doing.

Deposited for the first time in September 2006 on Party (Canadian ftw). Lost the $50, re-deposited, lost again. Deposited $85 on stars and never looked back.

I'm about 11 months old. w00t.

Beat: I missed the online boom when any monkey could win at mid-stakes.

$10+.5 limit HU sit and gos on pacific 3 years ago. I made like $150 and thought I was so awesome, and then I lost $100 in a day and was crushed.

4ys 8m, owning the 5$ sngs on prima back in the day. And of course cashing in those awesome freerolls they used to have without playing a hand lol.
Still playing on original 60$ buy in.

I thought this question was going to be something like: For online players, take your table hours and divide by 24...how old are you now?

Some people here are probably over 100 years old now.

When my deposit clears. I'm prenatal.

12-13 months.

Have played everything from micro cash games to nl200/2-4 (underrolled ldo), freerolls to low rebuys. Down about 1k overall, with no roll currenty. bleh.

When I lose I get mad and curse at people. They inform me that I'm a baby. I agree

May 6, 2005 (2 years and 4 months)

Deposited $10 on tiger gaming and told myself that if I lost it I'd never deposit again. I started playing .10/.20 limit, made $25 by the end of the month and I was ecstatic that 'this online poker thing' could pay my monthly internet bill!!

Eventally moved to NL(NL50 up to NL200 and after about a year and a half realising that there's much more $ to be made and now I regularly take home enough each month to cover the mortgage payments and more.

Over 9 years. I began at Planet in 1998. Still not broke.

13 months old. My first deposit was $20 on bodog, where I started playing .05/.10 LHE. I cashed out what was left of my roll a couple of months ago ($400) and took a break (read a lot of poker books, played a few free roll donkaments). Getting ready to deposit on stars and get started again.

Started playing the .01/.02 Limit on UB back in Jan. 04 after winning $5 on their free tables (highest winning hand promo). So 3 years 8 months.

I am almost 2.

My first real money deposit was 50$ into FTP on 11/28/05 having just turned 18. I used to play play money the summer before this. I started with 5$ sngs and played wayyy above my roll at cash games before id even heard of BR mgmt.

Finally deposited a bunch more times b4 i realized i was doin something wrong and found 2p2 after hearing it mentioned on a liveatthebike webcast, which i found from a fellow railbird on FTP.

I was down to my last 1$ online ~1 year ago after going on tilt and chasing this fish to 1-2nl (i still hate you for this envelopescars ) when i luckboxed my way to win a 1$ PLO rebuy (which i had no $$ to rebuy) in the middle of the night on UB for like 120$

I finally decided i was tired of sucking and started taking poker seriously again, i went on to cash in some mtt's (ftops and FT of 3r) and traded a friend for some party money and proceeded to build my roll up to 4 figures.

Since then i have started playing FR 10c 25c on stars where i am comfortably rolled. tl;dr ldo

I started playing on Empire at the end of 2004. I played .50/1 LHE to start and also some $5+1 SNGs, oblivious of the crazy rake. I lost about $300 (one-tabling) before I found some forums and started to learn what I was doing. I'm still at 25NL because I kept withdrawing money, but now I am keeping most of my winnings in my BR so I can be robusto.

i'm almost 5. damn, i'm old.

Started in Sept. 04 on Party Poker, donked around, played any two sooooted. Then I read SSHE and started for real on pacific poker with $80.

Now I am crazy robusto at .5/1 NL, all my friends think I'm a baller

Looks like we have a leader.When exactly were the first cash games online played anyways,month-year???

It was sometime in 1998. I played on Planet the day it opened. I had played on IRC previous to that, although it wasnt for real money we did play for real and payoff later.
I wish I could find pics of the first planet lobby. It was actually pictures of tables, there was no list of tables. There were like nine tables in the lobby. No tournaments, no Omaha, no no-limit, just limit hold'em.

started with $20 at Pacific playing .05-.10 LHE 2 years ago

I started playing 7 card stud on Paradise in '99, lost money and quit.
4 years later, I realized I still had $20 left on my account.
Took a year to grind that to $500 playing $10+1 LIMIT holdem SNGs.
Switched to cash and prospered.