Facebook or Craigslist. Now when I say Craigslist, I don't mean put an add out asking for friends. I went on Craigslist to meet poker players here in Northern Virginia since I'm temporarily stationed here. Found a group of cool people to play cards with.
If you don't mind me asking Army Soldier, what kind of poker do you guys play ? As my generation is dying off it's getting harder and harder to find poker players who are good at five-card draw poker. Everyone want's to play 7 card stud or Texas-hold'em. In Vegas in fact in the entire state of Nevada, 5-card draw is illegal to play in a casino because it's not a game of chance but a game of skill and money management. Where as 7-card stud and all of the other card games are a game of chance and money management. Not saying there isn't some skill required when playing stud poker. Also luffing is also skill. It's hard today to even find enough people who want to play any kind of poker today. Has poker become politically incorrect ??? Guess who was considered the best poker player in the U.S. military during WW ll in the Pacific Theatre or War in the Pacific ? Lt. Cmdr. Richard M. Nixon USNR.
You could meet friends here. Seriously. The last more major site I lived at, had regular international meet-ups. Members would plan the gatherings in a forum topic, you could pin specific date meet-ups for larger events in Cas. Chat.
Facebook has events and you can search for events in your area that might interest you. A lot might depend on what you like to do and where you live. If you go fishing a lot, you can use something like reddit to discuss the sport with folks and offer to take anybody who wants to come fishing.
I play hold em. I've played in 11 tournaments in Virginia, Connecticut, and Mississippi. I love playing smaller sit n gos with a low key group of people, having some beers.
Hopefully you understand that you just posted a thread in a site that can be exactly what you are trying to find. I used to belong to another forum and moderate their in which I planned and instigated several "Get Togethers" involving people from New York to AZ....many are still friends.
I know that for certain people (like myself) it can be quite hard to find friends. My main problem is that most people my age seem to have diamterically different interests from me and being around them therefore bores the hell out of me. Places like this are therefore very good for "anti-socials" and "semi-autists" for meeting friends. I am a member of this other forum where I have been able to make a few friends (only online-friendships though), but I know that forums - as been mentioned above - often have "meet ups"; I've seen them pop up, but haven't yet attended any. The best way is of course to go outside and try to socialise, but that is awkward as hell.
The comfort zone is definitely a very powerful and dangerous force that has to be broken here. Find something you like, get engaged in it and you will soon meet people with sinilar interest whom you then can befriend.
