Personally, I have been playing poker for 16 years, but in general, how long people have been playing poker, I don’t know, to be honest, in all these years I haven’t even thought about this question. Of course, a lot has changed in my life after I started playing poker. It depends on how a person treats this game, he can just come to a poker club, play, and the next day wake up and continue living his everyday life, but in my case, everything was different. 16 years ago, I started playing poker, then after about half a year I learned to deal cards and began working as a dealer, since I constantly watched the dealers during the game and I really liked how skillfully they controlled the course of the game, and I was fascinated by it, I also wanted to learn how to do it. Then after some time, I started playing again, made a lot of new acquaintances, from whom I later learned a lot besides poker. In general, I can say that from the moment I started playing, my whole future life is somehow connected with poker. Whether or not something changes in other people's lives after they start playing poker, I can't say, it all depends on what poker is for them and how they feel about it.