I'm a guy in my late 20s. I didn't discover online poker or poker at all until the 2004 World Series and thats when i started playing it. I would say the majority of people that got into poker at all was because of moneymaker/fossilman on espn. I know most people who play online are usually young, but i'm very shocked at how extremely young many of these kids are. I'm checking out the forum here and it seems like many good players here mentioned they started playing poker at 13-14 and some of them started just around 16. My question is how in the world did you guys discover poker at THAT an young age? I can see many people get to discover poker when their 18-19 or early 20s and all but i really cannot imagine a 14-15 year old discovering online poker. Shouldn't most of you guys be at school or playing video games etc? Well that was what i did when i was 14-15. I don't know about you guys but when i was that age, obviously online poker wasn't big yet but then again even if it was, i doubt i would have even played it at that age.
Can someone explain how many of you guys discover poker at that young of an age? I feel like if i was 15, and i read about online poker, i probably wouldn't even play it. Well i might try it but i probably wouldn't play it and just play video games instead like a regular 15 year old kid. Most of the really good online players are at least 24 now because majority of those guys like Durrr, Phil Galfond etc started online poker at 17-18 or so when it was the Moneymaker boom. Last years WSOP table pretty much had most of the contestants where they were 17-18 back in the 2003-2004 poker boom, but i just cannot believe many guys here start at age 13-16.
It seems like right now there are tons of top online players are like 18-19 years old and many mentioned they played at a top level for 3+ years.
When i think about an 18-19 year old online poker player, i would assume he probably started playing recently but its pretty shocking to me how a good amount of them played 3+ years and are top players online.
Anyone else can explain how online players discover and play poker at SO young of an age? I really just can't believe how there are guys that have played online poker since age 12-13.