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In years past before the casino and other online gambling bet platforms was discovered and brought to our knowledge, I and some family relatives used to play the card games but on the sequence some of us were becoming unserious in the game that it wasn't competitive so, we decided to have stakes with little amount of cents of $ which we could afford to loose just to buckle and cheers everyone up.
Time goes where we increases the stakes to make us more serious to the extend we began to bet about $1 which we can afford to loose at other expenditures but it seems unbearable loosing it on the caused of betting.
On a serious note, we saw this as a mere bet of competitions and not as gambling. As we advances, we saw it as a domestic gambling and not as the wild gambling that could cause one emotional outbreaks.

Time goes that it becomes unusual that we began to feel offenced and rebelled that we as relatives(1 family) are extorting from each other without empathy for one another and then, we unconciously grew wild developing in sentiments, greeds and taking it as an avenue to make profits.
Alongside, it was more of serious business than the just fun.

Then the casino and other online bet platforms was introduced in time. This was how I was exposed and my begining of gambling life!

Your experience is not unique. I think majority of gamblers started that way. If not card games then some coinflips. The whole point is that the exposure started with people whom you know personally from childhood to your student days and then your adult life.

I also witnessed some feud that happened among family members. It usually starts when the total bet placed on the table is less than what was expected then accusations starts.

Just like @Yogee mentioned, your experience isn't unique, buddy. Many of us here had similar experiences as kids, which seemed a lot like gambling, even though we didn't think of it that way or call it gambling. We just saw it as a friendly game we played when we were young. I still remember when I and some friends would put in a little money and play the game of Ludo, and the winners would get prizes, which we would eventually return to the original owners at the end of each game.

The habit of gambling often starts in childhood for many people. Online gambling has been around for a while, but most people have only become aware of it recently because it used to be mostly done in local gambling shops. As long as you're playing games and betting money, you're already engaging in gambling.

In life, their is always a starting point to everything including gambling, so i can tell you to the fact that so many of us gamblers have our own side of our stories how our gambling life style all started, to me gambling is not a bad thing if you can gamble only what you can afford to lose, because by doing so it wouldn't get to your head, once gambling start getting into your head and you start seeing it as a means of income, that is path to addiction.

I have played some card games with my family but not in a way that it led us to gamble. In fact, I have not gambled with any of my family before. But before I started to gamble online, I can remember that I gambled with card games with my mates and seniors in school countless number of times. We use small amount of money, and we are able to control ourselves. We did not see it as a way of making money at all. When I saw gambling as a way of making money was when I opened an account on a local gambling site which was many years after, I was gambling with football at the time and with several losses than profit.

It all starts either with the family or friends, it is always meant to be for entertainment but later on it becomes a serious challenge. I started in the similar fashion with my friends, we used to play card games over drinks once a while and gradually it became a weekly event. Unfortunately some of us left the city for work and some became busy due to responsibility. Later on only a few used to meet losing the excitement and engagement. Later on I got introduced to online platforms but still miss the time I used to enjoy with my friends.

I don't have family members and relatives that are actively gambling, so my initial experience with gambling was totally different than yours.
I started gambling in the online gambling era and I've never visited any offline casino or gambling shop.
It's sad to hear that gambling can make relatives to hate each other. This is why I don't want to have any financial relations with my relatives, like borrowing money or giving loans, not just gambling. Money(greed) can drive some people into madness.
I don't understand your family environment. What kind of parent or uncle would start playing gambling games with kids? Isn't this a way to turn your kids into gambling addicts at a very young age? This looks like irresponsible behavior to me.

Contrary to what some other members have commented, this is not a typical way to get exposed to gambling in my experience. In house games usually do not develop to anything more serious, and greed definitely does not come into play, it is just a recreational activity to make the games a tad but more exciting. For this reason, I also see casino or sports gambling as a recreational activity today and not a way to get rich by any means.

At this point, you should have considered dialing it down a bit. Gambling addiction is a real thing and should be controlled as much as it can be.

- Jay -

Huh, it originated from your family. Rather rare really. Well the most similar case that I know would be community since in my area, there are sometimes gatherings of people who play Bingo since it's more suitable with a bigger audience and with price pools attached to it. I know some people who started there and just spiraled towards other types of gambling activities.

I myself knew about it as a kid but was never interested. My gambling shenanigans started in HS when a bunch of my friends brought out cards, ones that were used for poker. It started out as something for fun but then slowly money got involved lol. This pretty much stayed with me till college and whenever there was something to play like this, you bet I was always there.

Every gambling has a starting point and a story to tell in that effect, it depends if the story is pathetic or sympathetic which are almost the same thing, the thing is that as gambler make sure that you are always in control of your gambling activities, don't allow your emotions control you in gambling so that you won't be victimized by addiction, the factor that every gambler should look out for is addiction and every should do everything possible to avoid this menace, it is a bad situation to be entangled with, most of us started gambling because we saw a friend winning continuously and we decided to give it a trial but later couldn't make any fortune out of it and also going away became difficult for us, so we must gamble with care if we want to be free from addiction.

Your introduction to gambling must be commonplace, I got to know gambling because I just saw my friends playing and having fun, and I was interested in trying it, I tried it gradually so I became addicted, but now I have recovered, maybe because I'm just bored or because I'm aware of the losses that I've spent more time on.

It's really rare for a family want to gamble with themselves because many parents don't want to let know their children or people around them if they're a gambler. But it's really bad to mix up your family with money because a lot people don't care either they're family or not, if they have a way to get the money, they will do it. This could break up the relationship between your family, that's why money is very sensitive.

But it's normal your gambling life started from playing card, I guess it happens on many people too.

You are right, it all starts with friends or family and when you really get to know gambling and really enjoy betting, there will be condition where the desire to gamble longer and more satisfactorily appears and is carried out by every gambler.
They will be addicted and when every bet or game is played in physical casino or betting shop, indirectly there is desire to know more about the gambling industry so that they can really get various experiences in online casinos.
They get more fun with various games or bets that cannot be found in physical casinos, in the end every gambler will become addicted and willing to spend more money to pursue his ambitions which are clearly just like mortal ambitions.

But the experience of physical casino or live table game that clearly pits each other against each other in the same game is truly unforgettable excitement.
We really get joy from betting and joking with friends without any sense of wanting to compete with each other to be superior to each other in making profits, things like this are phase that really makes us miss the past when online gambling was not developing as rapidly as it is now.
But repeating it also feels very impossible because we are busy and we can only keep up with developments in the online gambling industry which has now really developed.

I don't know what to make with this stories, but I guess everyone has gone to this process as well, or maybe as early when we are still kids going to school and gambling with friends and classmates. And then as we grow, we go on and move to casinos. With the proliferation of online gambling now, it's really hard to anyone not to fall for it as everyone around us is playing and gambling.

So it boils down to our self-control, we really need to understand prioritize things because we fall on gambling. The effect is going to be bad in the long run. So there maybe addicted gamblers here and around us, we can help them as we ourselves as well might fight it out or at least those who have experience it already, by now knows what is the effect of gambling in our lives. So it's not how we started in gambling, but how it will affect us.

Gambling begins innocently. It always expands. From cents to dollars, pleasure to strife, you've seen it. Risk and pleasure are more important than money. The hook. But wait, it's not just about you. Your family and relationships matter. Gambling may be fun, feudal, bonding, or breaking. Also, internet platforms? These games are entrances to a world where risk is king and caution is poor

Step back and assess. Your life is slipping through your fingers like sand in this game. Gambling is about understanding when to quit, not winning or losing. Walking away is sometimes the biggest triumph. Gambling's only sure bet is not to wager

I was going through the replies on this thread and it seems everyone has the same stories. It was either friends or family members who got every respondent on this thread into social gambling at first. Then it shifted to serious gambling and some of you might be into hardcore gambling. The problem in our society is that we cannot change our family members or our friends but we can surely avoid them. It is not as easy as it sounds but it can be achieved for the greater good of oneself and for our betterment. It is a fact this is how anyone here would have been introduced and got addicted to any addiction in the world. I am no saint as I was also introduced to and encouraged by someone near me to gambling.

that's how I became aware of the world of gambling, because I grew up with relatives who gambled with cards, tong its, majhong and other card games was a trend back then, so even when I was young I already had an idea when it came to gambling, but at that time I wasn't trying to play, especially since I didn't have any money of my own, then when I was at the right age and I was earning my own money, that's when online casino apps became popular and that's when I started gambling, because first I was earning my own money and I managed my own finances, so I'm more comfortable doing the things I couldn't do before.

This is the main reason why gambling among your family and relatives should only be done occasionally. Instead of having fun while you play together, in the long run, the intention was unknowingly changed and more focused on winning money from another relative.

Everyone has their own story about how they started their gambling, but actually this is not that unique in my opinion, it's just that I appreciate your gambling journey, what you said is also true, that it's just a competition with your brother, not too serious gambling. Even though in the end you are serious about betting, gambling with people in your family will not give you the adrenaline rush that feels more like gambling directly with other people, which will feel different and not just for fun.

I've gambled with my close friends and family with real money but to be honest it doesn't get any adrenaline because sometimes it's a pity if they lose, so I often return their money by buying food from the winnings I get also with my own money personally, so we ate together at that time because it was difficult to play seriously with them, but still it will be an experience that will teach us many things and let's just say it is an experience for you to become a responsible and controlled gambler which in the end you have to gamble seriously against the dealer or other people in an online casino.

Some had only been expose in the forum. Because most of the campaigns here are gambling sites, we also would need to learn how to gamble since we are promoting it. But personally, I was already gambling when I was a kid, before this online gambling got popular or bitcoin was created I am already gambling and it was a card game.

I would say I came from a family of gambler, my grandfather and father are both gamblers, so I was influence at a very young age and I'm happy with that as I learn early due to my mistakes, now, I'm proud to say that I'm already a responsible gambler.

You are correct. Gambling didn't just start suddenly. It was a gradual process until it became full blown. In the past many years ago, before the coming of physical bookies and online casinos that was we gambled. It was a neutral word not associated with any negativities. We could even do it with parents and the win or loss was not celebrated like any big deal. Rather even if you won any money, it was returned either back or used to buy something that is shared amongst everyone. It was the old days, a much simpler time. Until the devil entered the game. And we became materialistic in our pursuits. Our pleasures became spohisticate and our competitive and greedy spirit grew like we want to taste blood.

From time immemorial, local gambling has existed before what we see today as offline, casino and online gambling. It is a neighborhood kind of gambling that is not just about card but whot, Scrabble, dice, billiards or board games, even local neighborhood football is used for gambling so it has always had this emotional attachment to it.

Local gambling has even more attachment than what you see in online because here you see the person who has won money out of you and you have such kind of feeling of aspersion on the person, some express hate from time to time or it even leads to fighting where there is disagreement or misunderstanding. So local gambling is more hitted because it is face to face gambling.

I also had a similar but slightly different experience. I used to have a friend who was four years older than me. Every weekend he always gambled playing cards with his fellow gamblers in a school compound. He usually puts his money in my custody and instructs me to tell him when the money has been reduced to a certain amount. I will have it counting and taking records of his gambling activities and when it gets to that amount I will inform him and he will stop playing.  

I never joined him in playing physical cards because sometimes arguments lead to fights among them. So I was more comfortable gambling in physical casinos and later online betting. He taught me not just to play but to do it responsibly because he had a gambling budget and would never continue after he had gotten to his benchmark.

Domestic gambling is something that is still very relevant and practised in most parts of our societies even till today, a few days ago, I was walking down my street and I saw a group of about five or six guys sitting round a table playing a very popular card game known over here as whot whot, I also saw fiat notes scattered on the table on which they were playing the card game, and from the way it looked, I completely assumed they were gambling, because the fiat notes on the table are possibly their bets.

Many online gamblers today actually began their gambling journey through domestic gambling, I myself did participate in it alot of times when I was still very younger..
Domestic gambling is usually very fun but at some points, it always results to alot of misunderstanding which most of the times always end up causing serious fights, which also could be fetal at times, I can't count how many young boys whom I know, that lost their lives through fightings, which resulted from arguments that aroused while they were participating in a domestic gambling.

All in all, OP's story is not one that is Peculiar to him alone, domestic gambling is very common here in Africa, and it's a gateway through which many people find their way into gambling.

See how gambling affects people who don't have control over themselves. Notice how it started as a fun game for the relatives until it became more serious because of the money involved. I don't want to brag, but in my family we know some gambling games such as majong, tong its, black jack, etc. More on card games, but why do we still enjoy them if we have gatherings? Simply because we can control ourselves and the relationship between the family, we rarely put a large amount of money in the pool, and sometimes we are not staking any money just for fun; in short, a well-balanced relationship even when money and gambling are related. I guess what OP experienced is that members of the family start to feel the feeling of greed as it is unavoidable. Conflict over the money with family members is not new, even in gambling matters.

Yes, that's how someone begins their gambling life, and each person has their own story. Many of them even become addicted to gambling because the ease they get in playing gambling can move them deeper into gambling until they finally become addicted to gambling. However, some people quickly realize that gambling can pose a risk of loss that is more serious than they could imagine. It has become common for those who gamble to become greedy and thirsty for a win, so they will continue to chase that win until they get it. They do not realize the danger they will face, losing a huge amount of money that cannot be recovered easily. Usually, it all starts with small things that look fun, but because the stakes are increased to make the game more tense, they experience a different sensation. And that is what slowly makes them become gamblers until now, and some even become addicted to gambling.

Starting to gamble with very small bet amounts and then increasing the bet amount is unfortunately the first indicator of gambling addiction because it indicates that the person has the ambition to win more. If gambling isn’t done very often this will not be a problem but if the continuity of gambling with high bet amounts is observed this will fully shows gambling addiction. Therefore, I will recommend that you change your gambling habits, gamble less and if possible reduce your betting amounts to a minimum. Remember, discipline and self-control are the only methods to overcome gambling addiction.

When internet and smartphone were not available but we were not much aware about online gambling but ever since mobile phone and internet became a thing accessible to people we are getting this facility. Earlier when there were no online gambling or casino sites, I saw many people gambled in different ways. Some may have gambled on a match while sitting in a tea shop and some may have played zuma on some game and at that time such activities were not considered normal by some people of our region and they always opposed this game. However, since the availability of smartphones and internet, people who used to gamble physically are now gambling online so that no one other than the gambler knows about his gambling. Some may know about gambling through others, some may know about gambling online, and some may be interested in gambling after watching a friend's gambling.

Yes so many of us started that way from friendly games among our childhood friends out of curiosity we came to learn how to gamble, I was introduced to gambling on our fiesta the popular game in every fiesta in our country is Bingo from and color games at a very young age I learn t bet it's so easy you just pick the color and the colored dice will just pick the color that will win, you can double or triple your bet, of course, I have my older brothers to accompany me it was all for fun.

At a young age, so many of us were exposed to gambling because of these kinds of events, in a country where gambling is legal the young ones are exposed to gambling because of betting stations that they see, but you have to be of legal age before you can bet here but at a very young age you'll know what gambling is all about you already have the idea of the concept, so we must have older relatives to guide us.

I started with betting when I was studying in middle school. My friends and I would gather in the middle school bathroom and play cards over candy. Whoever has the highest number wins.
 Then I started gambling with the money I was saving for events. When I started working, I would allocate a small amount and bet it with the same group. After that, the Budget became big a little so I stopped playing cards .
 Now it became much larger and bigger and I gamble online in sports and games.

Your story about family gambling hits hard, and it ain't just you. Seems like a lot of folks start with harmless bets with friends and fam, maybe some coin flips or friendly card games. Then, bam! Time flies, and suddenly those casual bets turn into full-blown family feuds over who's coughing up the most cash. It's like a fun game night gone rogue, morphing into a serious business fueled by greed and resentment.

The "extortion" thing you mentioned, where family feels pressured to gamble? That's messed up. Turns gambling into a competition where everyone's trying to outdo each other, forgetting the whole point of having fun together. And the feuds? Oof, those sound like recipe for disaster, tearing families apart over a few bucks.

This is the example of betting against family is not really good move to do since there’s always a loser on every game which means there’s someone who will surely be upset after your game. We have this kind of family games it doesn’t involved money but rather just penalties to make the game intense. We usually use command system as penalty that loser will obey any command of the winner of that game. This way we manage to enjoy our game with something at stake even though there’s no money involved.

It’s very odd too that your family allowed gambling inside your house because in my tradition, This will never be allowed by parents or elderly since gambling has a negative image in our country while doing it with your family is a total disgrace if someone saw you doing that in your neighborhood.

Gambling is gambling no matter how big or small your bets are. The thing you are caling 'advancement' is simply bigger drive of profit, that you are wanting more than just a penny from it. Casino and online gambling sites are there due to technological advancements and capitalism for owners, nothing more and nothing less. For sure it is a common thing to all of us who are here in this industry. We experienced activities related to gambling during our youth. Some examples are with competitive games that we put consequences to whoever would lose the game. And as we grow up, we just value money more which gives some gamblers the idea to be hooked up in this industry for the sake of not only getting profit but to some, a way to get rich in an instant.

Another influence could be environment on why some of us are gambling at the present. For sure some peope here saw their fathers making some bets in lotteries, sports league and the likes. In some instances are neighbors and relatives who are doing the same thing. Eversince we are all familiar with what gambling is however, not everyone has as much as interest we have now, unlike before.

We all have to start somewhere, and mostly we all start with close friends and relatives... It's certain that the competitive spirit grows with time and that the desire to win is getting bigger and bigger. So that greediness and lack of empathy are understandable, we all wish to win at all costs, when we are younger it's like proving something to ourselves and others.

And as we grow, our appetites are bigger, we discover other games and we for sure get more serious with our gambling activities. I think it's all normal, as always the most important thing is to learn not to spend too much money and time on gambling, that's especially important for younger people, their focus should be on some other life activities not on gambling.

Most gamblers didn't started gambling recently, but from a young age like the age of OP, when he started gambling with cent. Gambling has been over a long period of time, or will I say since the creation of man.

I started gambling with friends in my neighborhood with poker game, and before I knew it we advance to dice, which got most of us addicted, because we lack discipline and self control. One thing that I notice in gambling is that when you are losing, you will become angry because you cannot control your emotion.

It is common for every person to experience a feeling of excitement from time to time. This feeling sometimes motivates people to do things that allow them to achieve great things. But there is another feature of passion: when a person, in the heat of passion, makes wrong decisions, the failures that occur to him can haunt him for quite a long time.
After reading several posts, you can understand that all people who give in to passion strive to be leaders to one degree or another. It is important to understand that having a gambling nature, you can redirect your energy not to games, which, as you can see, quarrel with close people, but to one common cause, the result of which will be profitable.

Yes. Most of people have had gambling experiences as they were children or teen, because it is pretty common to have adults around us which partake in gambling when they meet together and children get curious on what they are doing. In my case, my mother's family used to be very proactive when comes to gambling and betting, their favorites ones were always card games, bingo and lottery. It was not only them, but the whole neighborhood came together at dusk to participate in bingo and card games as if was one of the main social events to be at before going home to sleep. Many of the adults of the neighborhood came together with their children, since they could not be left alone at their homes, and that was the way many of them got introduced to gambling and cards games.
One could argue it is irresponsible to take one's children to a gambling event, though in my opinion those bingo and card afternoons/nights were a very good way to keep the local community together and to tackle boredom in a place is which pretty much away from malls and entertainment centers.

There are many reasons to put money into betting. Many people bet only to win and there are many who prioritise the presence of money there to attract attention. Many people have this experience when they start gambling. I used to participate in various sports games before online gambling where we used to bet small amount of money so that game attracted everyone's attention and in reality the same situation happened where everyone was very serious about that game for small amount of money. Me and my friends enjoyed it a lot but with the change of time when sports betting opportunities were created on online platforms,  From that moment I became almost a regular gambler.

I don't understand the point.
It's a story but I cannot perceive if it's a good one or a bad one. It seems like gambling did affect you but I don't know if it did you good or bad.
But, since you are a starter then I guess I can suggest you some things.

Now, it will depend on what you are playing. Casino games, the original games. Don't expect too much from this. If you are betting $0.01 then your max profits could be $10 and then expect that a time will come that you will not win anything because it will always try to get it back.
Slots games. This is the hardest part. You don't know when RTP will click. There's a chance it won't even be at the point that your capital is gone.
Sports betting. This is better. You are in control. You are playing against another player and not against the house so the chances of winning is higher than what the system is giving. An x1.20 is possible to win so if you are betting large amounts it could be profitable.

Just don't expect too much and be really careful with your bets. If you think you are winning in casino games that doesn't mean it is a never-ending journey. There will always be a time when it will try to get back everything you gambled.

I have known gambling for quite a long time, at first I liked physical gambling, even at school I used to often play with my friends, but now I prefer online casinos, I feel comfortable and calm playing, almost destroyed because of gambling, I have experienced it and am happy now I am aware of the dangers of gambling, I gamble just for the sake of it and am not very active

In my case, I started playing when I was a child, many years ago in my country there were no modern cell phones, few people had cars, few people had TV, there was only one television channel that was from the government and it kept putting out false information. for government, so as we didn't have technology, we had to have fun in other ways, that's why we played football and bet on teams, we also played cards and put money in, there were many traditional games from my country where we put money in when we played, in that At the time I didn't even know that when we did it like that it became gambling, it gets strange when today I remember the past

This is because today people are easily affected emotionally, in a short time we see a large number of people addicted to gambling, something that in the past was very difficult for me to see, I don't know if it was because in the past we didn't have access to phones and computers with internet and we didn't have many TV channels so we didn't see news about people who were addicted, maybe that's the reason. But I still think that today's generation are very psychologically fragile people who cannot handle pressure and suffering. Whenever I remember the past, the times when we made bets like that, I laugh to myself

For me it was individual and none of my other family members both of when I was single and now that I am married does not gamble at all.My gambling life began many years ago when I was watching people going to lotto clubs,in the years early 2000 they were in the mood back then and I become curious about them.I started gambling in Champions League events of 2003,I still remember it was Real vs Juventus in group stage and I bet one time for Real playing away and one time for Juventus playing away,both times to lose my bets,that is how I started,I continued to bet on weekends for a long time until I started slot machines which I play still to date.

There is no family involved in gambling in the past if there is then the parents will definitely prohibit it maybe because of different thoughts then I do not have the experience of gambling with family, but to play bets with friends maybe it often starts from cards and other bets.

We often hear about family quarrels because someone is involved in gambling because they feel upset about losing to their siblings they can antagonize each other but this has never been an experience, because I really don't want to experience it.

When online gambling took off, I became a quiet person, meaning that I never talked about gambling too much even though I was very active in online casinos.

Hmm this is different from how I got exposed to gambling. For me it was all about my family, and believe growing up in the street ghetto and having siblings that and cousins that are crazy, sometimes I wonder what has kept me in check when it comes to my social life because alot of persons I know are now chronic gambling and even drug addict but that's why they say if anyone changes it depends to some level on the actual person thinking and mentality. I was exposed officially to gambling during the days of my schooling although am familiar like yourself about the card and all other physical gambling but the gambling house just made it more extreme and many like myself couldn't survive the pressure and turned addicts to the act and till date I know of a few that are still fighting this habit.

I want to understand which way gambling is affecting or will affect someone and there are ways that yes I know they have suffered financially just because they gave too much attention to gambling and I feel like this whole thing depends on the person's personality and gambling does not fit some people and that is why they are having issues with it, and if am gambling with my money I don't see the reason why I would be having issues with my relatives about my gambling habits since am not collecting money from anyone and when bet it will be in my own house so they don't even know if am gambling or not, all that money can not be for fun alone but to also make money and sometimes the only fun I see is when I make money, and if my family members should request for money from me and my bet is on I can confidently, tell them about the money am expecting and if I lose we go again that is gambling for you.

I was exposed to gambling when I was a little kid.  People in my community often play cards outside their houses and along the alley.  Aside from cards flipping coins are also popular in my place. And I started my gambling experience not with real money but with toys as the wagering unit.  Even bottle caps, rubber bands, cards, and anything that was the interest of that time was used for wagering.  I often participate in that kind of gambling activity because it is fulfilling to beat other kids and own their stuff.  From there I started participating in gambling where the real money is used and then fast-forward, to playing in an online casino.

That's right, big or small bets made can also trigger addiction, each person has their own portion of nature, including feelings of dissatisfaction or greed, by gambling and winning at gambling, it can cause greed to appear so they want to win. bigger win. Gambling frequently is not a good action because it can drain our finances quickly. especially with the fact that gambling has a greater chance of losing than the chance of winning.

In my opinion, someone who gambles certainly won't be able to easily get rid of their gambling habit, especially if they can be said to be addicted to gambling, it's possible that this is very difficult,  but it can be minimized by, as you said, reducing gambling activities by limiting the time they gamble frequently. can minimize major losses that occur.

Mine is quite different. I was introduced to gambling by a friend who was always gambling but I didn`t pick interest because to me he was wasting so much money on an unproductive activity he was lucky to win $30000 with a stake of $500 and that was how my journey began. Immediately my mentality about sports betting changed when I saw evidence that someone can win from betting. I told him to show me how to bet and also some websites where I could get some expert picks because I was a novice then and I needed that information. Since then I have gambled to date. My journey so far has been to laugh and cry, smile and frown, happy and sad, win and lose. Well, I am enjoying gambling. Arsenal gave me some bucks today haha.

I got to know gambling and entered the world of gambling recently, which is more than two years old. Because where I live, the social environment of the people is very opposed to all types of gambling practices, and gambling is seen as very bad by them. But after I moved from my hometown and decided to live independently outside the city, that's where I discovered gambling and playing until now. And so far the gambling I have done has gone well without causing any serious risks or negative impacts. Even though in some gambling sessions my emotions were a little out of control, I could handle all of that well. And until now I have never had a win that could be said to be big enough, but that is not what makes me persist in gambling and the only reason I am still gambling to this day is because it is fun.

What you experienced as a child is almost what many people experience. Initially, you gamble with a small nominal amount to have fun, then after you feel addicted, you will move up to the level of betting where the nominal value is of course very large.
It's all because of money, people will be offensive to each other for money. That's an indisputable fact. Even one family will fight to get the victory they want. Luckily, online casino platforms are very rarely able to bring us together with relatives, most of them will meet random users from various parts of the world.

Many factors cause someone to decide to enter the world of gambling and bet in it. Whether it's because of the pursuit of profit, feeling bored and having no challenges so they plunge into the world of gambling to look for a sensation that can stimulate their adrenaline, whether because someone often feels stressed so they seek pleasure by gambling, or for other reasons. But whatever is your reason for entering the world of gambling, it is important to realize and remember that gambling is not a place to make a profit or a place that can relieve the stress you are feeling. Because gambling has a fairly high level of risk of experiencing losses, it is safe to say that if the gambling you do only results in a loss, then this will make you even more stressed and even create depression.

So it's a good idea for you to think that gambling is just a form of entertainment, and is played for fun. And to guarantee that the gambling we do will not cause significant risks or other negative impacts. So continue to try to control your gambling activities as best as possible.

The side effects of gambling over a long period of time are influenced by the mental and psychology of each person.

When it comes to personal matters, this is definitely very difficult, because character is more difficult to predict and see. This will appear by itself.

In my opinion, things that need to be avoided at family gatherings are drinking alcohol together and gambling together.

On my end, I fully understand the concept of gambling during middle school but I think I experienced gambling unconsciously when I was younger. Unconscious that it was gambling already, but aware that I am doing things for either a reward or consequence. At my province, I tend to engage with spider fighting activities. It is a fight between you and your opponent's spider. The winner would either take the losing spider if it is still alive or will just be given another spider from opponent's if the one fought will be eaten by mine. It is for me a gambling given that there are two contrasting sides and that there is a consequence with the outcome, and of course risk of losing something on my end. Those things simply characterizes gambling however, things are in the form of money considering amounts,  which creates a difference. I do believe that there are other instances aside from what I have mentioned. Another is rock, paper, and scissors especially if you'd gain from winning. We might have different stories of how we ended up being here in this industry but still, we do engage with the same thing but in different forms.

Low income + greed = recipe for a disaster

While people who have good income gamble for fun, people who have low income play to make money. It is the same with the other bad habits too when you think about it. Rich people don’t get drunk usually. They drink only on special occasions and only enough to get a taste while poor people drink till their belly burst, pass out, roll on the floor, vomit. You often don’t see rich people do that crap.

Well, in the beginning everyone had expectations of being the winners of the competitions among the family's members, so it was all fun, excitement and enjoyment, but as the competitions went further, and probably some started losing more than others, it stopped being entertaining to become frustrating, and with frustration comes wildness, revolt, resentment, until reaching to the extreme level of accusing each other of extortion! What sounds really absurd to me, since you were betting only few cents in common agreement which wouldn't prejudice anyone's financial lives in the end...

But people were so pissed off for losing that they were already going out of their minds!

Glad online casinos have come in time to prevent the collapse of your family. Because that is what was going to happen, if you continued gambling among yourselves like that... You were gambling innocuous cents of dollar, now imagine what would have happened if you were gambling more volumous sums of money.

A complete tragedy!

Any form of gambling you might have seen today has been in existence for as creation of Man, in fact gambling begins from the very much day man created into this earth and hence, they started gambling then there was no online casino rather than a traditional methods of gambling, after some years it was then modernized but yet not everyone can freely bets since there wasn't a circulation of mobile phone on like now.

People were going to a local shop to bet after they go with their betting slip, along the line it was then modernized again where it is now friendly to everyone to gamble at their leisure time. In summary, what you said has already been existence but just that you weren't that opportune to use that facility at when necessary maybe due to our world since we lived in the third world country so many things could be restricted to us.

Maybe let's just say that I learned to gamble here in crypto gambling because of envy. Because I read a lot in the gambling discussion that talks about how they won a large amount of money gambling, and because I often end up like that in the gambling sections, I had a question: maybe it feels good to win a large amount of money gambling?

It was with that question that everything started, which is why I stumbled into crypto gambling. Then, I started to sign up at a crypto casino here that is still active, and I still play when I have extra money.

Gambling is legal in our country I can see so many lotto betting stations and there's a last two digits in a basketball game where you can predict the last two digits of the final score of a basketball game, it's a small-time betting and participants are usually in the same neighborhood, this is how I learn to bet because the operator or the one holding the two-digit card allow even youngster to bet, as this is only in our neighborhood.
It's easy for the youngster to learn how to gamble if gambling is legal in their area, if they are not properly guided they will grow up relying in gambling.

When the gambling was legal in your country,the gamblers can play the gambling without using the VPN.Many gamblers using the vpn which is against the rule for the gambling site because the gambling was against their government rules.The gamblers started their game in the gambling mostly because of their friends or relatives influence to the gambling.The game in gambling should be played without any addiction.

The addiction in the gambling site was caused mostly because of the continuous loss.The gamblers get motivated to recover the gambling loss,but the fact is the gambling loss can be recovered only after the gambler get more experience in the gambling site.

We all have a unique story about how our gambling life all started, of which I'm sure it may not be far from yours, because inasmuch as we were staking an item worth valuable for money, there is no other phrase it could be called rather than gambling, but the only difference, it involved we staking an amount we could always afford to lose, unlike now that people tend to gamble a major portion of their asset with the mindset of getting it back

It seems that your experience is common among most people. They start out playing game for fun and when it start to get boring they start with some money so that it can give a tense sensation to the game. Gambling with cards has been around for a long time, not a few years ago. So I think your experience is common among many people who are familiar with gambling at the beginning who are not able to spend a lot of money and over time will increase their bets.

I myself also had my first experience when gambling, but I didn't gamble with my family because it would cause problems one day if our siblings became uncontrolled and easily emotional, resulting in family disharmony caused by money and gambling, so if I wanted to play card, I did it without money, although it wasn't stressful, but at least it didn't cause financial loss for my family or myself, apart from that, it also didn't cause feuds or emotional outburst or greed towards my own family.

When someone starts to get to know gambling, there is a part of him that changes, whether it is his attitude, character, or even emotions. He must be able to recognize that the change has occurred to him. But most people won't be able to recognize it and don't care about it.
People will become more eager to win gambling games, whatever the results they get. This makes them gamble more and more often.
If they don't have self-control, they will only get deeper into gambling and will eventually become addicted to gambling. And his gambling addiction ultimately destroyed him.

Yes my experience is quite similar to that of the OP. The first times I played cards was with family when I was little. Then when I became a teenager with friends betting small amounts or whoever paid for a round, but seeing that betting more gave more excitement we ended up raising the bet. In the end, like everyone else, you end up betting in casinos.

I think it's a fact that only a few gamblers can identify the changes that happen to them, they usually feel fine, meaning they don't feel any changes, but in terms of impact they can feel that lately there is something bad that they feel like losing balance in their finances.

I think this is the situation that gamblers who are too focused on "winning chances" or those who are too focused on multiplying, because all they think about is "how can they win" so this makes them ignore some aspects of the changes that actually happen to them along with ignoring the actual fact that in gambling they don't really think about "possible risks". As you said that someone who is passionate about gambling activities will be very difficult for them to stop and what happens on the contrary is that they will become more aggressive and gamble more often, none other than the hope they put on winning, and this is typical of gamblers who will eventually fall into addiction.

Most of these gamblers stem from the influence of their childhood, whether it was their father being a gambler or someone introducing them to gambling. And over time this affects their minds, so that they become gamblers when they grow up because they think that it is not a problem. This shows that childhood experiences can influence someone to become a gambler.
And this is also a quite serious problem nowadays, when many children are exposed to gambling from their environment, they have the opportunity to become gamblers before their age and that will be a problem because it will make children not as active as they should be.

Right. Switching from family card games to online gambling sounds like a big change. The shift in dynamics and the introduction of stakes must have brought both excitement and challenges and as we delved into online gambling we encounter  a broader range of games and betting options. The convenience and accessibility of online platforms have intensified a lot

People's gambling habits often change over time, from friendly games with family to more serious and competitive gaming. It can be both fun and risky. As it can change your thoughts and actions and can hurt relationships and finances. Always be careful when gambling.

The home is a strong influencer of the children and that is why it is the primary agent of socialization. Most likely children pick traits of behaviour from the parents either the father or mother. A son that always sees the father playing games grows up to like playing games because he has been accustomed of it by seeing the father do so too. Therefore, if the father is staking money on it then he would start that too, so parents that doesn't want their children to learn vices that they didn't want should make effort not to display such vices in their presence.

Every gambler must have a process of how he or she ends up becoming an active gambler, usually starting with the people closest to them gambling with family or friends, but that doesn't rule out the possibility that it will make the atmosphere less harmonious and good, basically gambling on something serious with the people closest to you is certain. It won't be good in the end because relationships can be strained just because of losing or winning in the game, but that's the gambling process where someone must have experience to become a gambler.

For example, in life from childhood to adulthood, we already know the process of how to survive, that is what is called a process, but whatever process you go through, never make it a necessity of life because gambling cannot be used as a goal in life, let alone a place to earn money. money, clearly that is a very wrong idea, every gambler should be careful when gambling because everyone can be addicted to gambling and gambling addiction is a disease that is difficult to cure. Lingering gambling habits will not be good if they are not played responsibly, the process must run with good control.

I used to play some card games with my family when I was younger and reading many replies in here shows that many people also have the same childhood when growing up, it shows that we can have fun with games without placing a bet, is it safe to say that this is gambling even when we had no idea? Because money was never involved in our card games, not for once.

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My father and mother are not into card games but they are into local old games like Ludo yet while growing up I have never seen then play it, I knew they are involved because they have these games in their rooms, I suspect they do play when we the children are not in the house or they do so locking themselves inside their room.

I am actually glad that this is the case, because I saw card games as something fun to do, I never knew anything about gambling, and when I turned into a youth my father would warned me about gambling, I guess those ludo boards they had in their room are just for fun, they have never gambling before.

If money is not involved, a game or any type of game with your family will be competitive and fun, there will be no risk involved, the reason why gambling is risky is because of the money we risk on the games.

A player can increase bets for several reasons, or he is able to win with small bets and wants to increase his bet to get a bigger win. Or the player will do this with the hope of getting a big win to cover past losses.

But in both cases it is not easy, increasing the bet means increasing responsibility, and trying to win with a larger bet when you could not do it with a smaller one will not be easy and will most likely lead to the same result, only with a larger loss.

What I think here that majority of us introduced first on card games since this is popular and easy access gambling tool to have since anywhere you can buy it also this is popular on our neighborhood that's why we can see this rampantly played by anyone.

But unfortunately there are other people got carried away with their gambling activity since they are not been guided well and their relative think that its fine to learn about that but they don't know the consequences especially those young people explore more and might stumble the big risk for trying other more risky games then get addicted with it.

All of us here experience this that's why we are here on gambling scene but lucky for us we already passed on addiction level and hopefully other people will realize early the risk if they are eaten by their curiosity and greed so that they can do moderate gambling then enjoy this competitive activity.

Majority of gamblers started that way. Gambling from home before graduating to online casinos. Mine even started from as child's play, were I and my kid friends will make some stake over children bangle. To us it didn't worth anything but that paved way for understanding the basics of gambling. Then later we upgraded to playing cards with stake before online casino gambling. I don't know for sure but maybe the experience I had from childhood is what made me to be discipline in my gambling life.

OP, your story reminds me my early gambling experience from my childhood. We also used to play cards for fun, but later started using money to get the game more spicy and more "real". However, by the end of gaming, we returned all the money back (actually father gave us money we used for bets, then we returned money back to him).

Later I remember with gambling with candy wrappers. I think there were pictures or stickers with cars or motorcycles. We got them from chewing gum called Turbo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_%28chewing_gum%29). Right now, I realize that those card games with money that father gave us, was the experience and knowledge of whether it is necessary to risk at the exact moment or not. That I have used when gambling with chewing gum collectible wrappers.

Easily accessible, omnipresent, and deceivingly benign, card games are many people's entrance to gambling. Guideline is essential, non-negotiable. That slide from recreational play to addiction is well-known. Whats at stake is your future.

Poor mentorship is the problem, not the game. Curious and greedy youth dive headfirst into quicksand. As survivors of these perilous seas, we must illuminate the way to moderation. Gambling can be fun, but without self-control, its destructive.

Our environment must acknowledge gambling as a risk. Limits and walking away should be taught. Addiction prevention and good gambling relationships are important. Herein is the actual challenge, amigos.

When we were kids we used to see the elders in our neighborhood sitting in a circle and playing cards.I was intrigued by their card game, I used to watch them regularly and slowly learn how they bet and they even bet in Ludoo. By playing cards, those who lost were very sad and those who won were very happy and cheered. When I was a kid, I didn't understand why they did that. My first gambling experience in life started with playing cards.
But our people here are not much focused on playing cards now because now there are various online casino sites where they bet regularly.

Well, sometimes the beginnings of People are difficult , also the shock that implies that Someone has to Self-Control more in a place Where Emotions come to the Surface and can make Anyone lose control, Especially because this has to do with money , and Everything that has to do With Saying things don't Change, Nobody likes to lose money and when they are Faced with a Situation Where if you are Careless with the plans you Could end up Without money, well it is something very rude, you have to put yourself in the right positions of the person that when you move on to something like this, I personally did not have a Coach to tell me the Dangers of this and that they Could make a difference, but basically things can be different now, we are the ones who decide to do it. You also dream well or mine, as I have said in many threads and I never stop repeating it, and this is about the most important thing in a casino , which is the Main thing in a casino and for us it Should Also be, and that is Money.

Without money in some way we are Worthless , but with money the Casino Opens the Doors to us for the games we want , so Before playing it is better Before making people think, be smart and say how much Money you are willing to lose , it is a money that will not affect our Daily Expenses Nor will it affect the Style of money that if it is lost then it will be left with the satisfaction of having played and having fun, if by chance it is not Possible to Multiply that money and the main rule is not to put more money, whether we are or feel that we are going to win, that we need a shot to win, no, we should not give there if we do something like that we will avoid many problems, among them the main one which is falling into diction, addiction is  main Problem for Everything, so that's what we should avoid falling, that's my Advice , and I hope I Received it when I was a Novice.

I usually see the changes from people who have been addicted to play here in our community because they have become greedy and don't care about others anymore and they easily make bad decisions whenever they are trusted with something and that's because they have changed because of their bad habit. A few days ago, a friend of mine was kicked out of his work because he was involved in a robbery while he was absent from work and the problem is, he wasn't there, only his friends who took everything valuable inside the office and because it was his friend, he was also fired along with them. These friends of his are known for their bad traits and they were also been gambling since they were kids not even teenagers.

You remember childhood? Clean fun. The essence of gambling? Risking valuables on uncertainty. Zero money, no gambling. Simply put.

Gaming and gambling sometimes overlap, which is challenging. The stakes matter, not the activity. Your folks' Ludo and family card games is innocent leisure. They taught strategy, competition, and possibly teamwork. Your dad's warning? Escalation was the concern, not the games.

Believe it or not, healthy gambling exists. Control, boundaries, and walking away are key. The gamble, not the game, is the issue. This is a valuable lesson. Sometimes competition is about the joy of winning, not losing something valuable. Keep that distinction obvious and you're fine.

We used to play card games in school even primary school we played cards but not for money.  Thats a common path to gambling later for money not just winning the game, I think thats a perfectly ok way to progress and not a negative as practice makes perfect.  Always know the game well before betting on it further.  Another path more common now is gambling via online video games, they commonly include gambling now in one way or another and one of my most common ways to bet is on the outcome of online matches done in various electronic games not just traditional sports.  I think that will increasingly be a way gambling progresses and there has be alot of sponsorship for development of that sector, thats made it a good place to bet also.

Gambling is not as bad as you paint it. Many of us just like  OP in his post above started gambling as kids even though we did not actually recognize it as gambling yet we still lived our normal lives even as adults. A person who gambles responsibly and still has other sources of income  aside gambling might likely not be influenced by any form of negative changes. A negative change can only manifest in a gambler who is addicted and can do anything just to gamble.

Addicted gambler will preoccupy his mind with gambling such that all he thinks about is what to gamble on and how to increase his stakes on gambling and win more money. He reserves little or no time to plan for is personal growth and little or no time for families and friends. When we begin to feel restly whenever we are unable to gamble,  we should be careful and vigilant because these are the changes that should be looking out for.

Gambling is inherent in us it started from curiosity I was introduced to gambling at a very young age through betting in chess games I thought all games were played with money involved it was just later that I found out that gambling is based on the agreement between two persons or a platform.
If gambling is legal in your country, young people can easily discover and learn gambling at a very young age, so parents should guide their children on the harm and how to treat gambling.
Gambling is so different now, because the advent of the internet it makes accessible so easy, you don't have to go out, it's presented to you right at your home, it's up to us if we want to get affected.

Yes, all of us must have experienced experiences in the gambling arena, whether it started illegally or legally, the point is that everyone has a life story of first being involved in gambling.

I also have a long life history in gambling, where I got to know online gambling through a friend, he taught me everything so that I could master gambling like now, but basically gambling has made me happy and difficult, while I was still learning, especially online crypto gambling, however, I always hoped that gambling could make me better in all aspects.

The gambling is not the bad one,the gambler who loss in the gambling site will started to blame the game because of their loss in the gambling site.The gambler who won the big money from the gambling site will never share to their friends and family members.The reason is very simple,the other gamblers will started ask the loan for their loss regain.The winning gamblers friends will ask the lown for their own personal expenses,if the winning gamblers doesn’t provide any money to the loan asking person.The winning gambler was blamed for the same,So the gamblers who want to get away from this.The gamblers better keep their winning as secret one.

Yeah! Those days we played the cards too while in the elementary schools but the fact is that as we advances continuously in our endivoirs, we tends to spice our habits with some piece of corruptions. So we played the cards to the high school levels with some stakes of snacks or pairs of pen.
Right there we are gradually growing our gambling carrier so as time goes, we began to see ourselves as bigger boys that is ought to bet with money possibly just for fun.

When our teachers noticed what has been going on amongst us playing the card games, we were suspended from playing the cards in the school premises anymore.
While we have already developed addicted fun in our gaming and there the school management has stopped us from playing the cards, we then had the ideal of throwing dice game.
There is always alternatives to engage on gaming with bets as long the mind is corrupted on it.

Likewise. I also played cards at school, and even had the opportunity to play for money, but I didn’t do it because the situation at that time was quite criminal and for me it was an unacceptable risk.
As for today's youth, many find their way to gambling through loot boxes in games. To be honest, I still don’t understand how in some games (where loot boxes have an obvious gambling nature) this is still allowed and regulators turn a blind eye to the fact that even children have access to gambling.

There is always a good introduction from the people that we know not until there are some experiences that we don't like that it had led to addiction and obsession. If someone who has gambled together with the family and then started to be on his/her own alone gambling. The tendency of that person being addicted is very high because that's going to make him want to gamble secretly and don't want to be seen by his family. But little that person knows is that the other family is also experiencing the same thing and struggling with how to personally look at their situations that they're starting to be more attached as a gambler.

We all have that start and we always say that it's not a gamble but it's for fun and competitions. But that is developing with that form of gambling and making sense to see having fun with more challenging part of putting some bets until we learn how to gamble online or offline. More likely on this generation of us learned gambling offline or physically because they're more fun and there's the introduction from those influences that have taught us on how to gamble and how we're going to have fun. So, it is the development process and progress that we ever had.

I was first introduced to gambling when I was young, participating in card games with family members to see who could play the best. I started to get interested in gambling after that because I was having so much fun with it. As I grew older, I started looking for a little income from gambling, which is how I eventually developed a gambling habit.

Notice how many have started their gambling life with card games and got familiar with it in childhood. Not slots, where gambler only hit one button and wait, not roulette, where you simply try to guess the number. But cards, which are more complicated, as they require a bit of math knowledge. Why is it so? I would tell because card games train memory, math (counting quick till 21), is that boring. And this totally does not go together with “never gamble in front of kids”  ;D

If people who have used gambling since childhood have an understanding that gambling is entertainment, they will not cross that line and will continue to maintain it. That's what makes some of them still able to gamble responsibly, but many others can't and instead experience problems from gambling.
They are the ones who can't control themselves when gambling and think too much about winning from gambling so they don't think about how to use gambling properly. And they shouldn't gamble without limits because that will give them problems.
And when they are adults, they really don't have any responsibility in gambling so they will become gamblers who are addicted to gambling. I think some people have been gambling for a long time and can take good care of themselves, but there are also people who have been gambling for a long time but they lose self-control, which makes them addicted to gambling.

Yes, online casino have been around for a long time, research shows that the first online casino existed in 1994, that's approximately thirty years ago. Online casino have been around, but they weren't popular and some countries places bans on them, thereby making it unavailable for those in a specific country.

Casinos patronage increased with the invention of VPNs which enabled those in banned countries to access casino and catch their cruise.  Also  many companies have started their own casinos and employed different marketing strategies in different locations that made a wider audience aware of their presence and start  patronizing them

I and all my cousin friends used to play cards, but I don't remember having actual stakes on it it just used to be normal games for fun and passing the time when we used to have school holidays which is when cousins and all family members usually reunite.

My gambling experience as a kid was when we started playing pool for money. It used to be a unique sort of game, an 8-ball game where a bunch of people play with equal amounts of money at stake. Each player is given a number that other players don't know about, and each player is also given a serial number for which player will play at which number.

A player with 1st number starts the game. The game is that you need to pocket the number that you have, for example, if you get number 7, you have to pocket it to win all the money, and any other ball that you pocket if a player has that number, he is out of the game. If someone else pockets your number before someone has won the game, you are out.

It's a fun game, and it is how I started my gambling journey.

I had exactly the same childhood as you described, I also played cards at a very young age with children like me. In the family, card games were not something forbidden since there were no games for money, but in adulthood, games began It is carried out only with money to make it more interesting to spend time.Modern children have different gambling habits, now almost every game both on the PC and on the phone has a donation function, they now have a whole playing field. Plus, advertising of bookmakers at every step will sooner or later do the trick.

I think this a common way how you start with gambling. In my case it was very similar, before I was even 18 I started with friends to play cards for money. We only used cents at first and later limited the buy in to 5 euros. Like this it still remained a friendly game and nobody lost a lot of money. Adding money to our games made everything more interesting and we all really enjoyed it. I am really glad that among friends it didn't ended in greed and rivalry. The most important thing was to stay gambling with very small amounts, otherwise it could have ended in a lot of trouble. Once we were 18 it was more about gambling at casino and joining online poker games or playing smaller tournaments.

If we are to all begin to share our gambling experience right from inception, i think everyone will have a lot to say about how they started, but i don't see it a good idea in having bets with the family members, because it may be the reason for some sort of of major disagreements among members, so its better to make it as in g=form of game play without staking money or rather stake with other people around who are not part of the family members.

You aren't the only one that started gambling like this other individuals would had same experience as we gambled together with our family members when we were together and up to this day many individuals on the forum also gamble when their families comes together. When you stake a bet and you can lose the money that you staked, you have gambled therefore what you and your family members were doing is gambling regardless of how small the staked money is.

Gambling has stages and each stages has the amount of money that you'll be using to gamble. The more you gamble the more amount of money you'll want to stake to increase the chances of winning more money from the bets. Betting with family members for me isn't fun as I'll have to give back the money after winning it therefore I don't participate much in bets that involves family members or friends again.

The mistake was not introducing money into the mix, otherwise you would have stopped those fun nights as your family members will stop seeing the point of doing them, the real issue here was to increase the size of your bets until a good enough amount of money could be made this way, as this transformed what was an activity that was purely for the fun of it, to one in which all what mattered was the profit, and if you do not want to lose your family then it is better for this to stop.

Is it a tradition in your family to gamble together? I don't find it enjoyable when there are rules in place like that. In my own experience, if I play with my relatives any money won or lost during a game of gambling is not returned, like a regular gambling. If the case is to return the money, it will only make me hesitant to play with my family because it doesn't feel like true gambling if you can't keep your winnings.

Gambling for everyone started differently, I even think that the origin of gambling itself is not very clear.  Gambling itself may be innate, spawned by the need for we human to get rewarded. Gambling will be for fun when the gambler is very young, they are mostly entertained from gambling because of the lack of many responsibilities on them. As they get older and have more responsibility, they remember that there is a reward for getting correctly gambling, and they can get focused on trying to win earn from gambling. Gambling started for many people a long time ago even before they started gambling on betting platforms and casinos.

Gambling could literally in speaking about those games and with those life situations on which we do need up to take up some decisions or gamble on which it would really be just that a common
approach for you to have.If we do speak about gambling life then it would really be just that depending on you on which it would really be just that on how you would really be treating it up.
We do know that each person does have their own approach when it comes to things or on how they do really be able to deal up with something. Entertainment doesnt really only come on
gambling games but also in other forms of entertainment as well which it could be possibly via with those physical activities or some sort.

And everyone has quite different experiences in their gambling activities, all of this depends on how they treat their gambling and what their perspective on gambling is, I will say this when you or anyone asks what impact will be received by gamblers during their involvement. What is worrying is the gamblers who take gambling too seriously, especially for those who think that gambling is an earning activity, on the other hand I can already ensure that in the end you will experience many bad effects when gambling on the wrong path.

Yes we are the same, I also know about gambling through one of my friends, he introduced me to gambling which eventually I took an interest in this activity, to be honest in the early stages I can be said to be one of the gamblers who has a big ambition to win but in the end when I have experienced a very bad thing where I really have financial problems and with experiences like that then now I really understand about gambling, never put any hope in this activity because gambling is actually nothing more than a probability activity that only provides "opportunities" (not that you always win), the possibility of risk will always lurk you and even the possibility of bad impact is much greater, therefore we must be very careful in addressing and treating gambling if you do not want to end up with a lot of problems.

Gambling activities are not the same for everyone but everyone experiences them differently. I didn't play but watched card games and those who won had a lot of fun. I have seen more gamblers who after winning a bet re-bet with the money of that bet and then it's all over. If the gambler is careful before starting the game the excitement will be less. Many gamblers have high ambitions in the early stages and lose the chance to win when they want to get more.

I think it's too bad that the whole family has been adversely affected by gambling. At the same time, it seems to me that if everyone decides to end gambling together, then it should be easier than fighting addiction alone. After all, everyone can keep an eye on each other and morally support each other. And the strongest in spirit will set a great example to all others. I am sure that this way it will be possible to improve the common affairs of the whole family.

if you are addicted you will never feel bored and there are also addicts who don't have an emotion anymore but it's great that you have recovered. Maybe you are not totally addicted? Although some totally addicted gamblers can still realize their mistakes and tries to change their situation.

It was like there is a miracle that suddenly happened to them but I guess this is also because their loved ones and friends are praying for their recovery as they can tell that their friend or family member is struggling despite him continuously playing a gambling. If the gambling you play is free, then yeah, time is only the one that you will lose and not money.

Everyone has different experiences, especially when it comes to gambling, especially since we live in different environments too. Some of us may have been familiar with gambling since childhood and are used to placing bets, but some people were new to gambling when crypto was launched because there were many crypto casinos at that time. But we can have fun from gambling, and as long as it is a fun activity and there is no desire to chase wins, we will not experience any problems because we just want to enjoy gambling as entertainment. When we feel the desire to continue gambling, we should immediately stop gambling activities because it will only make us spend more time and money and we might experience more losses too.

Just like my gambling experience is quite different from my other friends who are gamblers also. We just have to understand what we are doing and not to jump on a conclusion on someone that does not have a perfect gambling lifestyle. We all have different reasons why we choose to gamble and that do not make us to go astray. There are gambling who have a good and appealing gambling journey because they have someone who was able to direct them on what to do and how to start their gambling journey. Everything is based on discipline and how we have mastered the act of gambling to help us to make few dollars in the market.

I'm amazed that there are people who remember truly how their gambling life started. Surely most of the gamblers didn't even know how they became involved in gambling. As in my case, since my childhood I've been involved in gambling in different forms which only started as a fun game then eventually while growing up, now involved with high stakes and real money.

It's not wrong to do gambling even though we have been doing it for several years.  As long as we keep ourselves always responsible for our actions, without harming people around us or becoming changing into a worst person, then we are good to just continue.

Yes, we all have our experience with gambling which includes the first day of our gambling and what caused us to make that move. But in my experience, it is not in the regular way that people narrate theirs, and maybe that's why I engage in gambling more politely than most people do. I've seen offline casinos since I was young, and I was in secondary school then. I've always been curious about how they go about it. They call it "Pool" then. It was after this that other ideas came in this regard (at least in my locality) and more were seen but I never gambled it for us. I was able to avoid it until my university days, so I was mature enough to engage in it.

This is all by myself without the interference of any friend, so it has been easy for me to play when I want to play and stay off it if that is what I want since no influence. This is a good mindset to gamble as well, and am proud to have earned more than what I've lost. Even though the difference is so small in comparison, it's still worth the kudos.

First time experience is never been that forgettable but its true that there might be some people who do totally forgotten on how they do first be able to experience gambling.
On my part then this isnt directly talking about gambling on casino or into those online but rather into those games which it does involved money like with those flip coins
when im was still on high school as i do remember. This is a local game in between other kids which you are really that still risking your own coin that does have value.
It would really be just that depending on you whether you would really be that tending to engage out of curiosity or really that aim for money.

It sure is about the discipline especially if it's inside the house.
In my family, we are not allowed to gamble with money on the line but we are allowed to play card games. We learned it from our uncles and aunts and when we played outside some old people played it too.
Then we tried it in our house, me and my cousins. There's no fun when there's nothing on the line so we decided to put a bit of entertainment to it. We powdered the coal and wet it a bit so that it would stick to the face of whoever lost the game. Then we would look in the mirror and our aunts living in the same house will just laugh at us. It's childish, well we are kids. But still, the competition is high because you don't want your face to be marked by so many lines of black coal and it will be more difficult to wash. :D The old ones didn't stop us because they knew it wouldn't do us any harm.
We never played that card game outside with money against strangers. 

I feel bad for OP but I am thankful that we didn't end that way. We are still on good terms as cousins although they don't gamble like me.

I havent been able to encounter real life situations or conditions that all of the family members are really that gamblers. Cant really be able to imagine on how much they would really be able to spend money on a single day basing up into the activity that they are doing. In regarding about addiction then it would really be that something that cant be that detected since each one of you
are really that engaging into gambling on which telling someone and do give out some advises would really be that somewhat pointless because you all are involved with gambling but its true
that there would really be one on telling that other members are already addicted to it and it should really be stopped. This is why it would be best that you should really know on what you are doing.

This is a usual experience for many gamblers because when we first started,  it was all at the basic level with just either friends and close families,  but along the line,  it grew into something serious and before the online casinos became very popular lately,  many at times we have seen some form of transgression from one level to another with development and involvement as times goes on.

When we were young we used to perceive those older people who indulged in that kind of game with real money as an irresponsible set of people especially back then when gambling was restricted and police always came after those who endured in that game publicly.

I also started playing card games with my relatives using just a small stake as well. It's more on having fun and it serves as our bonding when we are together. But because any form of gambling here is already prohibited (aside from lottery since it is regulated), there's no way we can enjoy playing card games just like before.

Fortunately there's an online casinos where we can play at home conveniently. It became the new way for gamblers to keep playing. Though of course the risk of becoming addicted is there if you have no self-control.

In my opinion, someone who is addicted to gambling will not easily realize that the actions they are doing are only making them miserable. Only a few people who are addicted can realize that the actions they take are only detrimental to them, in my opinion they can realize that if they experience an incident that really slaps them and makes them aware, and if someone is addicted to gambling they will not be able to easily come to their senses even if they are given advice from people around you, whether it's family or friends.

Also, in my opinion, someone who is addicted to gambling will not easily recover if he himself does not have awareness, because encouragement from people around him will be in vain if the main perpetrator does not have good awareness. This is different from someone who has awareness, maybe they can recover without any encouragement from other people, because they have awareness and the desire to be able to fix everything.

My experience was quite different from yours tho, I and my siblings use to play card games and ludo while young and it got to a point where we had to construct This chess game in a board and use bottle cans head to play and then we usually hide it from our parents
It got to one faithful day we were having clean up in the house and my parents saw the board,then my dad rose up in anger and question us,we told the truth actually and we were warned never to play it again that it's gambling we are trying to practice here and it's not permitted in his house,we didn't see it as nothing so important till I came in contact with one or two friends .

So sometimes we stay together and they talk about their winning in bet and so on and I also want to be part of it,Thi wasn't having much funds but I tried betting for some occasions and boom one day I cashed out a huge amount and what I did was to reach out to those friends and family that stood by me and encourage me too.. nevertheless I don't gamble just like that,yes it's for fun but I place my mind on what I want to achieve and I get it.

If your goal is nothing more than to find fun when you have free time with your relatives or relatives then obviously you have taken the right approach where you only bet a small amount in each bet, however this is much more advisable because after all our goal is just for  fun so it is more appropriate to use a small budget, because of course the fear is that you lose an amount that you cannot account for if at that time you put a larger amount.

On the other hand, if physical gambling is strictly  prohibited in your place, then obviously there is no other choice but to switch to online gambling because it makes it easier for anyone to gamble wherever and whenever you want, you can gamble just at home and enjoy every round but still we must really maintain caution and vigilance because after all, whether it is physical or online gambling, of course, the possibility of bad effects is still inherent in it and anyone can end up in a slump, so there is no reason not to apply limits and caution wherever you gamble.

Hear you clearly. Like you, I started gambling with a friend, became passionate, and eventually fell. Im among those who've traveled it. I initially thought gambling may be a good method to get money, but I learned how risky it is.

But I've learned to enjoy gambling as fun, not a source of revenue. Risk and uncertainty excite. My approach is lighthearted and I set hard limitations to avoid financial depression. Gambling is about the thrill of the unknown, so remember that. By doing so, we avoid its risks.

It happens just like the drinking problem. If not kept in moderation it can bring in bad news. But in a controlled manner, it can be fun and a good way to spend some time and money with friends.

Indeed it is the nature of players to hunt the thrill and gambling is one of the easily accessible avenues of getting that thrill. But do spend time to play some sports, undertake some adventure hikes and travelling - these things have an effect on the clearing of your physical and mental health if gambling for too long.

Gambling should not be the one controlling your life, rather you should be the one doing that.

My gambling history also started with card games, only instead of playing with my family I played with the older kids in the backyard. At first we played without using money, but later we started to play for money, because it allowed us to get not only enjoyment from the game itself, but also to get a reward in case of victory.

I have been gambling for several decades and I do not regret that I once saw card games being played in the yard.

A family that is addicted to gambling will clearly be judged negatively by other people, what's more, the addiction they experience will have increasingly negative impacts, the family itself will no longer respect each other, oppress each other and resort to blackmail.  Of course this is very unfortunate, the impact is that one family will always be underestimated by other people because they have bad behavior from the activities they carry out

My excitement occurred in gambling because I just saw people around me playing gambling, and it looked fun and celebrating for the winner. I was interested in doing it. At first I only played physically with my friends but in the end I played online casinos which felt comfortable

I like that part and things can be done much better, I have always thought that when it comes to this type of game, playing it in family is the best thing in the world and it can be done so that they can join together, generally this It is a very good way. I would like my family to be like that, but because my family is a little strange, they are not united and everyone who is there can do things differently and can generate many ways to do things better.

I have played poker online, I have not played it like that live and direct with anyone, it is something that I like because it is a game that always catches my attention and many things can be done, you win and lose indeor, I have seen that those who know the most about poker are doing well and can make a difference. I am one of those who think that poker is about playing by thinking, and that bets must be made with great caution and evaluating each thing.

I think what @webetcoin said was clear, he said that there are some people who are addicted to gambling but can still be aware of it, so this can prevent gamblers from going into a deeper abyss. It is true as you said that gambling addiction is true, most of them are not aware of their addictive attitude so he continues to gamble without any problems in himself even though the people around him such as friends and family are worried about his addictive gambling behavior and try to advise or stop it, but most of them are unsuccessful because the gambler himself has no intention of stopping.

It is true that someone who is addicted is difficult to cure because it has become a daily habit and if they don't do it once they can't because they are already addicted, but as you said if they are aware of their own mistakes and intend to change then it is very likely that they will can quickly recover from his addiction.

Everyone has something different about what they think and what makes them feel happy, like you here where you are quite happy when you see people or one of them maybe your friend who is gambling and who ends up winning, I'm sure you You can  also feel pleasure even though at that time you are not the winner, but it doesn't matter because usually  when you are next to gamblers who have won, usually they will at least give you part of their winnings which you can use for anything, whether it's to try gambling or use it for something else or celebrate it at the same time.

On the other hand, online  casinos have become more of a choice for most gamblers lately because we all have to admit that online casinos make it very easy for us or anyone who wants to gamble and one of the advantages is because you can gamble wherever and whenever you want, but The main point here is that we must continue to apply caution and vigilance wherever we play, especially if you are a beginner, where beginners are usually very susceptible to making lots of mistakes, especially because they often place their hopes on winning, and my advice is to  avoid things like that and Don't ever think of gambling as a place to make money, it's too dangerous..

Nothing new in it because most of the gamblers have learnt it from their surroundings whether it be friends or family.
There is always an external influence through which we get influenced to gamble.
In most cases, it's the elders around us. I have seen my elders gamble but didn't get influenced until one day I tried a lottery.
It got me attracted to it to try my luck again and again and then that's how I got into gambling.

In my area this is not very common because from the story you describe it is about family and you are one of those involved in it. Families should be more harmonious and strengthen each other, not rebel against each other or blackmail each other and in my place it is very rare for one family to be seen in gambling. Gambling is becoming more modern and currently there are many platforms that provide online gambling such as casinos and there are many people who are easily involved in gambling without other people knowing.

Gambling will become wilder if people do not have control and generally gamblers will be considered addicted when they can no longer stop or in other words they spend money unreasonably on the gambling they play. This is the basis for some people who think that gambling is not a good activity to do openly or secretly.

That is the beginning for someone playing gambling, and many have experienced it because playing gambling is really fun and can make us play it more often. The attraction of gambling is what makes many people come back to gambling and play other gambling games, especially as they hope to get even bigger wins. Those who initially just want to have fun by gambling with their friends will start to be interested in visiting casinos around them and start gambling there. They are not aware that they have started to fall into gambling and if they do not have good self-control, they can get deeper into gambling until they eventually experience gambling addiction.

Well, with those who are addicted to gambling, it is possible that they will experience changes in attitudes and behavior, and in my opinion, people who are addicted to gambling tend to have a more stubborn nature, because as you said, they have no intention of stopping, and with friends or their family who give them advice that they cannot accept well, because they themselves are already addicted and have no intention at all of stopping their addiction. Even though there are gambling addicts who realize that what they are doing is detrimental, it is likely that they will not stop because they still have hope of winning that they must get.

That's right, if someone is addicted, especially if they do it every day and can't stop gambling for even a few days, it might be difficult for them to stop gambling. However, if they have the intention to stop their addiction, I think they have to do it gradually, where they have to reduce the frequency of gambling by limiting certain times for gambling. Like me, I only gamble once a week and this can be done with discipline and consistency.

On the moment that you are gradually growing up and you do already have the awareness or knowledge on how important money is, then on the time that you would first time encounter
about gambling is that you do really have that kind of impression that "woah,this is something cool", "i could make easy money with this" kind of impressions or words that you do have in mind,
and since you are that someone who doesnt really have that experience through it then you would really be having those common impressions and viewpoint towards it
on which this would really be making that curiosity would be kicking in.

Once you do have that curiosity that kicked in then this is where you would really be having those test out and engagement until you would be able to realize that it was never been easy.
Continual would really be just that depending on a certain person whether they would be pursuing it or would totally stop out on point.

Normally after your first trials births your next a d subsequently you may just have to continually be involved until if you bare not disciplined you become addicted and loose some money, for first trials it good to not let the excitement get to you or the frenzy of lost game get to you such that you may want to recover.

Trying to do such is just exposing yourself to much more gambling danger which could grow into something that you will never be proud of. As a beginner the kind of gamblers you find around has got a whole lot of influence on how you are going to perceive gambling, it's either you are going to see gambling as something you would like or something you would not want to keep up with and this is totally based on the people you find around you if they encourage or discourage your gambling activities well enough and how much they are achieving gambling.

The gamblers mostly start the game by seeing the advertisement in the mobile application or television if the gambling was legal in their country.The gambling site will advertise based on the big amount winner, this will trigger the gamblers mostly to join the gambling.At the initial stage most of them will loss the funds due to less aware of the gambling game.So the loss get by the gamblers will be in the mind of the gamblers until they recover the money from the gambling site.

The gamblers started to get addicted to the gambling site because of the big losses at the initial game.The gamblers should increase their skill in that game.The skill based gambling alone help the gamblers to get away from the gambling addiction.Because the money recover in gambling site is not easy one.

That's why gambling games will fade their fun if the money gets into your head. For example, in the OP, they are playing gambling games with relatives—card games, to be specific—but because they put stakes in the play, the game becomes extreme and challenging. It was fun at first, but eventually they become hungry with the money. That's why the fun has gone. This kind of story is not new; many family members or friends become wary of one another when it comes to gambling games. I have the experience of learning that card games used to be played in casinos. It was fun playing with other family members, but we never ever put money on the line because they know that money can ruin anything, so even now when we have a gathering, we still play gambling games without money. It's all fun; if you want that, then better just enjoy the game.

There is a common trajectory for many people who become involved in gambling. The allure of gambling may stem from observing others enjoying themselves and celebrating wins that create a sense of excitement and interest in participating. Starting with casual physical games among friends can indeed lead to further exploration, especially with the convenience and accessibility of online casinos. The ease of access to a wide variety of gambling games online can make it tempting to continue playing and exploring different options.

People may find themselves drawn deeper into gambling, eventually leading to addiction, if they have no good self-control nor awareness of the risks involved. Gamblers need to recognize the signs of problematic gambling behavior. Developing healthy habits around gambling, such as setting limits, taking breaks, and seeking support when needed, can help mitigate the risk of developing a gambling addiction.

In general we need to be wary of mixing money and our family as this most of the time leads to great trouble down the line, and this is just one more example of it, because when it comes to money people are used to hustle in order to try to get as much of it as they can, the problem is that this attitude to get money at all costs is completely inappropriate when it comes to dealing with your family, so this can easily create problems among your family members for years to come.

Always fun to watch back and see how rough it was and how you're starting to develop to good position. I was persuaded to gamble because I'm this type of person that's always online, I've come acrossed gambling news, more especially on lotto winnings, these individuals keeping track records on their big winnings exerted strong hope for me to gamble. I've gamble, losses and made profits in the system. We should be happy any day we hits profits and frown our faces at losing ends, but that doesn't discouraged me because I don't gamble daily, instead I settled for weekend games which brings significant odds.

I also started that way, old days in our house. I'm still very young that time, but I have seen my parents play with nephews and nieces and it was just all for fun. And then they taught me how to play that card games and then for years we did that until they all left when they grown up and fight a job. Was in high school then and so with that taste of rush early, play with my classmates too and then just like the OP slowly move to play in land base casinos when I graduated and find a decent jobs and with your officemates in the same path as you, going to casinos after office hours or even go for a quick gamble during break. OF course, it's all for fun, but if I have to look back, there were money that i could have used to other things.

You've said it all mate. gambling can be okay as long as it's done responsibly. The problem comes when people start chasing losses or viewing it as a way to make money and earn a living. Then, it can quickly get out of control and become an addiction. I think the way we talk about gambling makes it more likely that people will develop a problem, For example, we often glamorize big wins in the media, but we rarely talk about the negative consequences of problem gambling and this is what mostly gets us into problems.

At first I only played physical gambling, card games, over time I played physical slots, and then online casinos started to become popular and that's where I started to feel comfortable, playing comfortably in online casinos.
this is how my gambling started

That's life's entirety. Everything has a starting point that is unique. A lot of people claim that their entire life is centered around gambling, citing instances where individuals begin gambling as early childhood and have continued to do so ever since, developing physical addictions. Isn't that the method by which they wager and win?

Some people will place a bet, and some have never won. Even one day, they still continue west of their money without realizing that the money they spend every day to stake are constantly lose is not better to use in another business. However, the biggest issue of some people's is that they don't know much about gambling and don't want to ask. That's why such types of people are always fall in vistim.

I love your story, it's nice story. I have participated in some street games, some sports activity and some other recreational activities which through them I just got into gambling. There were so many games which I and my brothers and sisters usually play during our young age and we never took it as gambling, we never staked money to play those games but in today's developed world, most of those games have becoming betting games. My gambling journey started because of love I just had for games and activities that are puzzling and fun.

In my opinion, most people are involved in gambling because they come from friends or a social environment where they often engage in gambling activities at that time. And initially they were spectators who ended up being interested because it looked fun, especially seeing who won.
Because I also started from experience when online gambling had not yet entered my circle and there was no Android, and as time went by online gambling existed and continued to develop which kept me involved until now. But I'm not very active, I only do it when I have the urge to play online gambling. And compared to that time, I like that time more. Because
win or lose at that time, still have fun with friends.

Those street games with some bets on the sides were like one of the best childhood that I ever had.

It's nothing unusual back then and there were no snowflakes by that time and everyone was just easy going. Unlike today, it's far from that reality in the past but we have to embrace this reality that kids shouldn't gamble.

Although in my experience, I was able to gamble when I was a minor and under the legal age but that's just was an easy going and nothing serious in life back then.

Oh I miss those days.

Gambling may become ingrained in their lives from a young age that leade to long-term struggles with addiction. The allure of gambling can be powerful, especially for those who experience early wins or positive reinforcement. Many people continue to wager despite consistent losses, often without realizing the detrimental impact on their finances.

There's a stigma surrounding seeking help or admitting a lack of knowledge about gambling. This reluctance to ask questions or seek support can leave individuals vulnerable to exploitation and further perpetuate their struggles with addiction. Gambling addiction is a complex issue with multiple factors at play, including psychological, social, and environmental influences. Those people need to have responsible gambling practices and awareness of the potential risks to make informed decisions and seek help if needed.

There is a stigma against rehabilitation because that in itself is an acknowledgement that not only you have a problem, but that you cannot resolve that problem on your own, so many people that are going through an addiction do not want to admit they have a problem, even when it is quite obvious they have it and anyone that takes a look at them knows something is up, however by not taking the help available as soon as possible those people compound their problem, and it reaches a point in which it may be impossible to ever resolve it.

Well, I guess the story of gambling itself begins just like how you describe yourself and your family got into the gambling activities.
In every competition or game, bragging rights or honor as a winner may not be enough to take things seriously, so people think about putting an extra reward to every winner and that is where a bet is created.
Me and my friends were even making bets on the number of vehicles that would pass in our area within a specific period. The closest guess wins. That is how we started and learn how to gamble. I guess every responsible gambler has begun with small bets. Those who started with huge bets are most likely the ones who are getting addicted to the system.

The stigma associated with addiction may prevent people from seeking help It's understandable that admitting to having a problem and requesting help can be tough, especially if someone is concerned about being judged or disgraced by others. And, as you mentioned, the longer someone waits to seek help, the more difficult it is to conquer their addiction. So it's best you just swallow your pride and ask for help, you may never just know whether or not there's someone who's had similar experience before  ans probably be of help to you.

friends influence most people who will think are addicts now, and the majority of them are even worse than their friends they have lost control of their selfies just because they want money, and the issue is when you even want money there is a very high chance that you will not win because you desperate and all you care about is how to win, and when you see a group of friends and all of them are gambling then there will be a serious problem because who is going to tell who to stop, so they will continue gambling. and some people think it gives them happiness and then they want to at the same time they want to get rich, so they will encourage themselves to gamble more you see people that do a lot of online gambling if you should check there deposit history you will know that does guys are not joking when it comes to gambling. but jokes apart some people need serious help before they will ruin there self.

We do what we think is right in the system, it does follow long processes but I think that's one of the best way to stay profitable. Been an addicted gamblers, one won't quickly noticed because the gambling activities will be seen as gambling that occurs daily in the system. However some of their colleagues spots out this difference, and most of them still drag on by denying the fact, they don't gamble as addicts but see themselves to be among these random gamblers that are just thirsty for big winnings in the system.

Well mine started out quite different, I just meet a new group of friends that were into gambling, I would always hear them talking about matches and cashouts and tickets and I never really understood, but then one of them from the click shared a game once that played out fine and all of made a couple hundred thousand from that game, I became more inquisitive about it and that's how I flipped the coin, they introduced me to their gambling platform 'sportybet' then showed my way around, i didn't know how to make good predictions so I would wait for them to send me the best picks and play, I was just a week into it and I also made some cash out of it, it wasnt as big but it was good enough.

Gambling with friends is a different feeling.. I have realized that when I take bets by myself there is regret when I lose in gambling but when a gambler takes part in betting with his friends he is relatively cheerful. Gamblers can console themselves if they lose there.

Gambling is often started by friends. My gambling life also started on the same way. I was quite inspired by friends' bets. I used to research their wins and losses. Their big wins inspired me greatly. They would have lost but I started by watching them gamble. I think a gambler is most influenced by the gambling of his friends. I believe that a large portion of gamblers are joined by the help of their friends.

So it started on your family first  ;D but how do you know about online gambling sites and how do you know this forum? it happen long time a go or just recently.

How my gambling life started? Since the beginning, I know crypto hahhaha back then before Online Crypto casinos became popular as today My friend played gambling dice.com I don't know if the site still active today but he created bot and play gambling with dogecoin. I just watch him earning money. My curiosity went up and I start digging about crypto and gambling world/

Some people will really enjoy gambling with friends because they will be able to simultaneously enjoy both wins and losses, but there are some people who avoid gambling with their friends because they don't like anyone disturbing them from gambling so they are free to place bets according to their wishes. However, if they experience defeat, of course they must be able to bear the defeat alone.

Most of us find it's like that, but I first got to know gambling through friends, but I tried to gamble. I tried it myself with online gambling. When I started my experiment, I often experienced losses and finally I looked for someone who could teach me how to place bets well to be able to win.

It's not uncommon for people to start their gambling as a form of entertainment or social activity, and then over time becoming more serious and invested to it. If you know to yourself that you are becoming too invested and serious in gambling, maybe it's a good idea to step back and assess or reflect your motivations and goals, if are you gambling for entertainment or you are doing it with the intention to make profit? gambling is exciting and fun but should always consider that it involves or has a high level of risks. Approach gambling by gambling responsibly, gamble with what you can afford to lose, and be mindful of risks.

I have some experience when making some gambling in together with my friends on which i could say that it is way more entertaining rather than on going solo but later on i have decided on playing on my own
and yes, i've been getting used to this and i dont see much difference specially when you do deal up with gambling online. It would really be your choice whether you should really be playing on your own or with friends.
The main goal or thing on here is that you should really be doing gambling on the time that you are really that getting bored or or seeking out for leisure.

So far after all the years ive been playing gambling, i didnt find myself getting addicted to it because i do always stick into myself when it comes to financial limits and on the duration that im
really that doing gambling. Never ever consider on making further deposits once you do bust up your capital for that day whether it would be taking short or long, it would really be just that the same story.
There are ones who are really having lost their control and this is why things do gets messy.

This will require a level of self-awareness and introspection that most people simply do not have, when it comes to their entertainment most people do not want to have an almost philosophical discussion to themselves about the pros and the coins of it, they just want to have fun and to obtain it without too much effort on their part, but it is that attitude that makes them vulnerable, as they will only do this once they have a severe problem with their gambling and not before.

My gambling life began due to the fact that I had very little money and I thought that by playing poker I could make money if I learned all the rules and some tricks, as well as mathematical calculations. I joined the poker strategy forum, it was popular about 10 years ago. There we sorted out the distributions. I played at this pace for 2 years, but did not achieve high results and thought that I should throw it out of my head and do something more profitable. At this time, my girlfriend just left me and it was a severe psychological blow to me. I couldn't come to my senses for several weeks. Ultimately, I decided to play roulette and bet half of my money (luckily it was very little) and I lost it. Of course, after that I immediately put in the second half and they returned to me.

After experiencing fear, I realized that I needed to pull myself together and not play this anymore, because if I lost, it would completely destroy me. Gradually I came to my senses and never made such bets. And now 10 years have passed, I very rarely bet on sports and enjoy life.

Being able to desist the temptation to gamble more and chase losses, needs a lot of self-discipline and the common lack of the same is the reason why the gambling industry flourishes and makes money. Those with underlying mental problems are more prone to become addicted to gambling and often it is difficult to control one another.

They can be controlled if they are willing to stop it themselves and keep themselves busy with something else that they love to do eventually they will lose their interest in gambling and being to move on while being able to save money to repay their debts if any.

That's how gambling starts anyway, you don't exactly gamble alone, that's just a sad thing and it wouldn't be enjoyable if you were to do that, I mean look at online casinos, they got to make sure that there's some form of global chat to at least give us some semblance of interaction that would result in a really engaging but not boring online casino experience. OP's start in gambling isn't that unique, maybe some of the circumstances have changed but in the essence, it's not an uncommon thing that would lead you to become a gambler. Totally agree with the advice about taking a step back, when things are overwhelming and you can't decide rightfully how to do the things that you have to do while gambling, it's a good idea to restart and assess the situation, this is the advice that I give to the people that I help when it comes to their computer problems, just a little restart for their computer was enough to solve the issue that they've got regarding their computers.

My journey in this gambling also started same as like you with I was also mostly lack in money and things were never been helpful, so I joined a group of friends which was involved in sports betting and horse racing which helps me in short time, but then I have some huge loses which was the main reason for me addiction in this gambling, but good thing happen to I was strong enough to bring myself from this and have change of my way of life.
After years of preventing this all I again join when I was mature and also able to handle things on merit in last few years I have done good things specially in crypto which helps me for settling things for my life achievements, and I am really thankful crypto for this all better and positive things around my life.

Hopefully, as you've identified this as a problem right now you'll understand that this sounds like a severely dysfunctional family and it is not normal to escalate gambling in this manner. Most families are perfectly content with just playing for the fun of trying to win and even that will cause enough friction. You should never introduce money into that setting for all the reasons you've given, it will just create anger and unhappiness. Since you've already been through it, the only thing that you can do for the future is to make sure never to pass on this behavior and stamp it out if you're ever around relatives who try to get it going again. You can have lots of fun without adding money to it and if that's your only option, go for a walk instead.

so in essence, you got into bad gambling habit before you started mobile gambling?

Well, everyone has his story and it's just sad the way you started could easily harden your heart to gamble in an irresponsible way. I guess you weren't happy with yourself seeing that you got intoxicated negatively to the extent of extorting money from relatives in the course of gambling which is a bad way to go about gambling. Gambling is suppose to be fun and some with your personal money you can comfortably loose if the game goes sore.

The problem is that gambling is never fun when you are losing money and who says otherwise is a plain liar.I never feel any joy when I am hitting consecutive lost sessions and I believe the same to be for the majority of normal persons.This is the exact reason why most people gamble in such a bad way that they soon after become addicted.The people who get addicted are usually most of the persons who fall in love with slot machines and very few of the majority who get addicted are addicted because of sport games.Sometimes people forget any moral value because of gambling and they fell to the lows of society,I think once addicted you don't care about anything else except gambling and that is exactly what we want to avoid.

Anyone can be addicted on any game that he loves playing a lot, not only slot machine. We have a lot of gamblers not there that don't like slot games, but they are still addicted. The reason is because they think that gambling is to make profit or a get rich quick scheme. This will make them use big amount of money to gamble without thinking twice. They will forget that the chances of losing is higher than making profit.  Bringing addiction problem to themselves, because they will always be chasing their losses till they become frustrated, and they will live to regret their actions. This is why one should be a gambler that gambles only for fun.

A lot of us got wisdom after several mistakes, so I think that is what it should be. There is rarely any gambler that started gambling with the perfect knowledge and wisdom needed to survive the challenges of gambling. It is usually after series of mistakes like chasing losses, increase in gambling rate and amount after a huge win which usually result to giving back the winning, gambling addiction and sometimes gambling with borrowed funds. The mistakes are just too numerous and it is usually after some of them many people begin to have sense and start taking it slowly as it should be. Part of my earlier challenge was over-confidence. This made me stake large amounts only to find out after huge losses. Truly, each of us who have been active gambler will always have a story to tell.

if you are the kind of person who gambles a lot, it will get to the point where winning or losing won't matter to you because you are already used to whatever comes with it. even when you are not happy because you lose money, some people are always angry You will see it written all over their faces but even if you are angry, there is nothing you can do about the money you have already lost. The interesting thing is that gambling keeps you company and all we do is complain and look for who or what to blame when we lose. I will keep asking, What is the person who is always winning? How do you explain that? Because I feel that it is always people who are losing that they are always calling addicts.

After completing my college education, I found myself entangled in the world of gambling, an arena I had previously steered clear of. It was a friend from my college days who first introduced me to this perilous pursuit. Initially, I harbored a disdain for gambling, often ridiculing my friend whenever he indulged in it, perceiving it as a fool's errand squandering hard-earned money. However, fate took an unexpected turn one day when my cousin entrusted me with a sum of cash to safeguard temporarily. Temptation got the better of me, and I succumbed to the allure of the money, pilfering it for my own needs.

My cousin, unaware of my transgression, was set to depart in a week's time, leaving me in a quandary as I scrambled to make amends for my misdeed. It was during this moment of desperation that my gambling-savvy friend, with his seemingly unassuming demeanor, sensed my distress and inquired about the source of my anguish. Reluctantly, I confided in him, pouring out the details of my predicament. To my surprise, he suggested that gambling might offer a solution to my woes, proposing that I stake a sum of money on certain games to recoup the pilfered funds and redeem myself in the eyes of my cousin.Desperate for a lifeline, I acquiesced, entrusting him with the funds at my disposal. Against all odds, luck smiled upon us that day, and our bets proved fortuitous, resulting in a windfall that allowed me to repay my cousin in full. Little did I realize, that fateful gamble would ensnare me in its grip, marking the inception of my descent into the vortex of gambling addiction.

This kind of thinking is actually difficult to eliminate because we find it difficult to stop the gambling activities that we do considering our thinking is too naive in interpreting gambling .

We should be aware that gambling is not a job but we are always determined to treat gambling like a job and make this a livelihood on the pretext that gambling is one of the tools to get quick profits but in the end this is precisely what traps us which makes us focus on that thought which results in us always thinking that gambling is the only way to get rice.This should be avoided but there are still many people who are sometimes naive and always make the same mistakes that make us addicted and unable to manage the money in the gambling that we do .

Gambling did not originate from my family dude but  my gambling life originated from that one family gaming where stakes are involved. Lol.

I got to know about the online gambling based on gambling advancement here on my country because the , it was mostly about skill based gambling such as the chess, cards, checkers, snookers and the rest of it.

First I learnt about it online and I was  interested about it but had no ideal on how it is played and could not give it a try on my own because I would not love to have my money wasted on the activity I did not enjoy or gained profit. Thereafter I met one of the old folks back in the days whose present reminded me how we do the game stuff as well and it happens he was alright in the advance World of gambling in the online and I was looking so awkward to the system to it. Haha.

Anyways, in all simplicity thatbof my friend took me all through in learning about the online gambling and then, I become a generous one after boarding in this forum that a friend also introduced me to.

I can vividly tell you that I was surrounded with gamblers in those days.

Very similar story but casinos and other platforms for betting was quite available but not actually too common. During this period, I remember us gambling with cashew nuts and rubber handband where the winner will go with the all. We do play it portion by portion until we feel like not playing again or when we are out of what to stake. The reason behind this is because we have no monetary items to gamble with at that stage. The feeling of gambling with those things is not in anyway different from playing in online casinos. Greediness is one thing that can not be separated from gambling because even in those days, see the urge to win and chasing after our loses which sometimes lead to fight and argument.

The advent of technology and the introduction of online casinos change the whole narrative. My first experience with online gambling was during my days in higher school one fateful afternoon like that. Until today I'm still regretting that day and wish it never happened but yes, we experienced, we gamble and life continues.

Hahaha, back in the day sports gambling was very popular before slots were common like nowadays so chess boxing and all sport is gambling included.

But when do you know about crypto gambling and know this forum, Does it come from your friend too or did you just surf the web and find this one.

yes hahaha you gonna surrounded with gambler especially if your post in here on a regular basis but that okay  ;D

I agree with you. We can never consider gambling as a job. If we consider gambling and job or business to be the same, then I am a fool. Gambling should never be considered equal to job or business.

Gambling should be considered as a game. We can either lose money or make money on it. None of us can guarantee that we will always make money gambling. If we don't work, or I have no other means of earning money, how will I cover my daily household expenses when we lose money gambling? So we must have a source of income. Otherwise we have to be under mental pressure if we lose money in gambling.
So we all should be aware. If we treat gambling like a job, it won't take long for us to be broke.

I was exposed to gambling at a very young cage considering that both my father and my grandfather were notorious gamblers via cockfighting.

Just to share a story of mine: back when I was a kid, my father used to bring us to our farm in the province where the latter is a dedicated place in raising fighter chickens. As a young kid, I was very clueless on why we had a farm in the first place. At first, I thought that this farm was created for livestock since there were lots of chickens and fruits. But what surprised me was that there was a ring in the middle of the farm that was like a mini-boxing ring.

After a few years, my father would bring us to these arenas where he would use our chickens and let them fight in this televised arena show in our country. Before the match, people would bet on which side or chicken would win and the minimum bet was like $8-$10 at that time. Long story short, this was the time that I got exposed to gambling and I realized this after a few years of discovering that our farm was built solely for breeding fighter chickens.

PICTURE OF OUR FIGHTER CHICKEN FARM:

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No one is born knowing it all, however you can minimize and tone down your mistakes, if before you begin to gamble you take a look at what gambling is really about.

This way a new gambler will know what to expect and even what they may feel under some specific circumstances, allowing them to realize when they are in a dangerous situation and escape early in the case they were unable to avoid it, so all in all you can really reduce your chances of making big mistakes by simply taking a cautious attitude towards gambling.

It is indeed not recommended to make gambling a full-time job, because it is not the right action and perception. By considering gambling as a full-time job it will only drain your finances instead of making you money. but with those who experience big losses due to gambling, it is possible that they think gambling is something that can make money for sure, so they do it excessively by spending a lot of money for results that make them lose a lot of money, not with good results such as making money.

What you say is correct, there is no definite way to win at gambling, even though there are some people who believe in the existence of patterns or strategies which are said to make it easier to win, but I am sure it will not be a complete guarantee. Also, even if they win at gambling, it will not be equivalent to the losses they have received, that is a big possibility. The wins they get will also be based on luck, not because of the pattern or strategy used. If you are addicted to gambling then what will happen is that you prioritize gambling and also have an income, perhaps what will happen is that the money you get will be used to gamble more than you need. I agree with you, mental health will be affected if we gamble excessively, especially if we spend a lot of money on gambling, which will only get us into trouble.

if someone thinks that gambling is their job or business, then they are a careless person, because after all gambling cannot be used as a job or business that can make money. gambling has the possibility, that if someone wants to dive into it and earn, then they need to follow a game that is based on strategy, and only a handful of gamblers can be successful from it. so instead of risking your money on gambling, instead look for something more certain where you can earn money.

It's not the gambling that was the problem, it was the money that was the problem. Maybe it's your family too that's got a problem because you let greed and envy break your bonds with each other when it shouldn't be the case, that's not how you do things in a family. The best way to move forward with you guys is if you start talking about this and dealing with it, not dealing with it and solving the problem is going to be an open wound that you guys would have a hard time closing the longer you don't talk about your issues.

It's usually common amongst a few gamblers especially those who just wants to make money gambling they most times become greedy and started doubling up their stake not minding what the outcome could be and at the end of the day they get to loose so much because of their greed and in the bid to wanting to recover they Chase losses and sometimes become addicted to the gambling games.

Responsible gambling and gambling to get rich is never the best way of gambling rather gambling for fun and entertainment has always be the best way to gamble because it's usually a better way of gambling and it does help one to not get affected if its not in their favor always.

 We all had our funny ways of getting into gambling and to be honest yours sounded close to how I got into gambling..it always has to start with something harmless till the gambler in you will need something more exhilarating and entertaining, so you'd raise the stakes. One crazy thing about this kind of gambling (cards and the rest), you'd discover that you'd want to employ every known trick in the book especially if you are losing and are down to your last cent.
  ;D

I guess this is just lack of perspective, but I respectfully disagree. While it's true that gambling can be risky and unreliable as a source of income for most people, It's not right to generalize that all individuals who engage in gambling are careless. There are professional gamblers who approach it as a strategic pursuit, having probability on their edge, statistics, and other analytical tools to increase their chances of winning. It's  just that gambling do require skill not only luck. It can even be pursued as a legitimate profession by a select few who have honed their expertise over time.

  Likewise, gambling as been a thing for the male counterpart for a while now even before the widespread of sport gambling. Growing up, i used to gamble along side  with my friends, we started by playing card games (whot card) we used to call it school then while staking is the fees, from cards we progressed to video game gambling where we gamble among ourselves the winner takes it all. We were young and just having fun though we weren’t gambling with much money it was purely for entertainment. As time goes on I became familiar with these other platform for gambling, I only gamble on sport betting, I don’t have the clue about how the other games are played that is why I don’t show interest. I only play when I have to and I play with what I can afford to lose. I have won some and lost some  that’s how the game goes I  don’t expect much that’s why when I get disappointed I don’t fling or make a fuss about it.
  Also not all my friends that started with me still gambles, some see it as just a waste of resource and energy. And they are doing quite well. Some people tend that they  can’t do without gambling, so they must satisfy their urge of placing a bet at lease once a day. These set of people always have this mentality that the next game is going to boom, and when itv doesn’t they are already on the next one. If your bankroll is okay for you to carry out your gambling lifestyle then you can go ahead but still stake wise. But if you poor and still struggling financially then gambling is not for you, just go look for a job and be productive with your time.

The story is not much different from what I experienced but all gambling is just for fun because playing it doesn't involve making money and only bets very small amounts and the development of the times makes more people gamble online and actually there is a quite striking difference from gamble together with friends by gambling at online casinos, if we really gamble for fun usually playing with friends will feel much more enjoyable than gambling at online casinos, but the advantage of online casinos is that they can be played anytime and anywhere so when we feel bored, even without friends we can immediately get rid of boredom by gambling.

lucky for me that I never fell into the same path as yours mate because my Uncle
and even my grandfa is also a cockfighting gambler where they kept talking about gambling
and their wins but never that i listen to theirs because my mom is telling me not to listen.

wow I also remember the farm my family had back in the days , when i and my
father eating beaten chicken from derby  ;D

Many people will surely think more about how much they will earn if they win a gamble, this is what many people do instead of thinking more about how much they will lose.

It doesn't take long for anyone to become addicted to gambling, they will always think that luck is on their side until they find out that its not, we all have our side stories too but mine was never like this.

When I was still in school many students do gamble when we are on break, I have been called to be a treasurer for two sides but I have never for once try to bet money, because of what my father told me about gambling, it starts very small until you want more and more then you won't care about yourself anymore.

You are right, Gambling should never be considered as a means of earning money. In gambling you can lose money and win a lot of money. I have seen many people who have lost all their money by gambling. Many rich people have lost everything. Again I have seen many people who have made money by gambling and won huge amounts of money.

I would say first to get control over yourself and then gamble. It is impossible to make money from gambling if you do not have control over yourself. And indeed one cannot be greedy. If you are greedy your chances of losing money will increase.
We must be careful. And gambling cannot be considered only as a means of earning money.

Good for you, mate. maybe because we have grown up with the situation of those who are older than us, so we no longer follow in their footsteps, I also come from a family of gamblers, on my mother's side specifically. I saw the hardships and situations of their lives since I was young, how they became rich and poor because of gambling and because of greed. I'm really lucky because I didn't inherit the addiction to gambling, many people used to say that I would grow old and be like my uncles but I imprinted in my mind that even if I learn to gamble, I will never let myself fall like what happened to my uncles. I can consider them as the reason why I try to manage my gambling habits well because being a gambler runs in my race.

But they should thinks about how much they lose in the previous gambling activity so they can calculate their situations and what the status of their gambling position. If they lose, it's better they start to reduce their gambling activity and using limitations to prevent the next losses because no one will knows when they can win or lose. Yes, no need to takes long to becomes addicted to gambling because gambling is tempting people to comes back to playing gambling and once they return to the casino and playing gambling, that will be the sign for them to start addicted to gambling.

We must control ourselves in gambling, especially if we already feel the lose before. We must avoids more losses using limitations and stick to our rules so we can avoids addiction. We must responsible in gambling and not trying to playing gambling too often.

Actually it is really just that too impossible that you wont really be able to notice it out that you are already losing that much because it would really be impossible  that you wont really be able to see
on how much you have lost already. If you are someone whose aware but have just simply ignored just because you do tolerate out that kind of gambling addiction then you are the ones who do make out such problem and this is something that you must really be that avoiding in the first place because once you do have that kind of problem then resolving it out would really be that pain in the ass.
People wont really be stopping not until on the time that they wont really be able to experience the worst, people would learn on the time that they are experiencing the moment that they cant be able to play just because they dont have the money for them to fund on. This is why if you dont like to suffer up such condition then it would really be that best that you do really know on how to
have that self control.

The story is quite interesting and you have capital in learning gambling beforehand with the closest person before plunging into the world of online gambling and the initial motivation is quite good because it considers gambling as a place to get pleasure whether it is with friends or with relatives and others.
But it seems that I am different because I started gambling seeing my friends get benefits, at first I was also quite skeptical about gambling and seemed more indifferent, there were many who offered me to play either live betting or online gambling, but one day my friend got a very large amount of money and changed his life, such as buying things he wanted that were very expensive from his gambling profits, and that's where I started looking at gambling at that time, thinking that I would get the same luck, stupid thinking. hahahah.

I started gambling as I wanted to have some entertainment but as I began to grow older, sometimes I'll want more than just enjoying myself as I also have some life challenges that I want to use money to solve therefore I started to want more than just gambling for entertainment but still I don't take it to the extreme that I want to always win when gambling but I know that I always want to know every trick in the game so I can increase my chances of winning when gambling.

Card games are luck base games as you need luck always or you won't win unless you know some tricks. I don't like playing cards games as I need to know that my chances of winning are in my hands that's why I love to play sport betting as with how you know the teams playing, you can know which of the teams are likely to win and then you make your bets based on the information that you have.

Stupid thoughts like that are what provides our motivation to consistently continue accessing gambling. As long as you are still under good control, your gambling activities may not have a negative impact. But don't let yourself get frustrated when you don't reach the target that you might want to achieve with your luck.
Many factors make gamblers end up breaking the gambling limits they set themselves. especially when motivated or even very ambitious in pursuit of victory.

It is very good for you that when you started to gamble not for fun anymore you were not impacted as it is in this exact moment where signs of addiction start to show.As long as you can be free of addiction you can also continue gambling both in slots or luck based games and also in sport betting.I think that it is only an illusion that you have that you think with sport betting and knowing some teams increase your chances,the referee can impact the game and to make you lose.

Your journey in the world of gambling is quite different from what I experienced. One of the big differences is that I personally very rarely gamble with my family or close relatives (in offline gambling). For some reason, I personally really avoid this. However, what I personally feel is that I just want to be more free when gambling and not have any pressure. Because of course when gamble with family or relatives will definitely feel different tensions or pressures. Like feeling sorry if one of my family loses and the one who wins is me. So basically I feel very sorry when I have to take money from my family or relatives. In essence, the gambling experience you have with your family seems to be the opposite of what I experienced. Because you quarreled with your family while gambling. And I think this is a bad thing to do in gambling. Because after all, gambling must be done fairly and must be able to generate feelings of joy, not anger and hatred.

Additionally, my first experience in the world of gambling was from my work friends and not from my family. So I gamble more often with my friends, compared to my family. And regarding online-based gambling platforms, I think this is more helpful for gamblers who like to gamble, but don't have gambling friends or are far from gambling places (offline). Because most of the gambling games on online platforms are mostly individual, such as playing slots. So with this gambling platform, gamblers can gamble more freely and can do it without other people when gambling.

Gambling can be an exciting and exciting activity. But sometimes you don't even notice how it grows from a cloudless entertainment into a dangerous addiction. Every bet you win gives you such an adrenaline rush that you start playing more and more until you realize that you can't stop. It's like falling into a trap where the more you try to get out, the deeper you sink.

It is important to be able to control your actions and not let the excitement take over. Remember that entertainment should bring joy, not become a source of problems.

This means that it is always about control and control along with putting limits that of course these things can keep us safe in the long run and can also minimize the possibility of losing too significantly. On the other hand the impact of gambling always depends on your intentions and goals of gambling, simply put if for example you come to earn then yes I think we can already ensure that the bad impact will soon come to you, because when someone has such a goal then I think it is certain that he will take actions that are actually beyond his abilities such as for example putting large amounts in order to get a big win where the fact of losing will continue to make you disappointed at the end of the session. This means that they will definitely feel frustrated when what they want is not achieved, and I can already confirm that people who come with the intention and purpose of earning in my opinion are less likely for them to apply limits and controls to their gambling activities, usually they tend to always overdo it because they are too confident in their thoughts where they think getting a win is easy when in fact the results at the end of the session always say otherwise, so the point is that you will be able or easy to take all the recommended actions for the sake of preventing things that are not wanted when you come without putting the intention and purpose of earning.

It can really be tricky and complicated to navigate and truly understand gambling. Many people may consider it to be a form of entertainment, but it's also very important to truly understand the potential risks attached to gambling and also  to ensure that it doesn't become a problem to you, because some people usually starts gambling with the  intentions of just having fun and enjoying the thrill but along the line they allow gambling become a problem for them. One should always remember to set gambling limits for themselves and also sticking to them,  as this will help the gambler maintain control. The problem isn't really setting the limits, it's easier to set limits for some gamblers but difficult to keep especially when emotion starts flying around. The most important thing is to never view gambling as a means to make money but rather as a way to have fun and recreation.

Ever since I was a child, it has been planted in my mind that gambling is bad, because most of what I've seen before is the only bad things it causes when gambling excessively. until I got older, and stumbled upon crypto I was just curious to try it out.

After this thing that made me curious, this habit continued with me, but I just do it for fun and entertainment, I don't do it just to make money, but just for entertainment.

It's natural that when we were little we saw that gambling was bad because only some people look bad like that, meaning people who are addicted to gambling are so bad to look at, but that doesn't mean gambling is bad, it all depends on how the gambler behaves, that's why when someone wants to gamble, look. The way other people gamble is enough to be a lesson that gambling must be responsible and should not be excessive because anything excessive will not be good in the end and that is a fact.

We all know that anything excessive can also make a gambler become addicted to gambling, especially since addiction is difficult to cure, every gambler should like you think of it only as entertainment no matter how much they lose and lose in gambling. The point is to use the budget that is ready to be lost for gambling. It's not gambling recklessly without unlimited budget restrictions which ultimately leads to losing more money, I personally never consider gambling as a serious game because the mindset still considers it just entertainment so as not to focus too much on chasing something that is impossible to get.

That's true, with a pleasant start, but over time it becomes a disaster when we lose self-control, especially since gambling can affect our thinking which will lead us to engage in excessive gambling that we shouldn't do. Moreover, humans certainly have emotional, greedy and impatient natures. with what you said, it is one of the traits that everyone definitely has, namely greed. It is true that when we win at gambling it can make us unable to stop, especially if we cannot control our greedy nature. Also because gambling is something related to money, it's not surprising that many gamblers want more than they already get.
but this is because of one's own actions, not because of other people's actions. We ourselves lead ourselves into a trap that is difficult to get out of and is even likely to fail if we do try to get out. I agree with your opinion, it is important that we be able to control ourselves when gambling, because sometimes the actions we take are not considered first, which ends in big losses or problems.

Such a relatable story and I do agree with you regarding gambling being an entertainment thing not a profit prospect but a lot of people don't know that anyway, they don't know it yet but they don't gamble for fun, when money's involved, that's going to be your only main focus, you will never be able to move your mind out of the gutter created by greed, the only people that can get out of the bind that is gambling for profit is those that are aware of what they're doing and what effect does their gambling problem has on other people.

You should not gamble with family/friends. That is a recipe for disaster. ::)

So your own family accidentally got you hooked over family game night? That is a first. Not to sound condescending but that does sound like an excuse. We all know about the problems that gambling can bring and I think even children know it by now.

No one is at risk if gambling is seen as a form of entertainment but it is true that many gamblers are not aware of gambling. Environmental factors such as the influence of peers exposed to gambling at an early age and the availability of gambling opportunities can also contribute to the development of gambling addiction. Additionally the brain's reinforcement and reward processes associated with gambling may vary from person to person affecting their susceptibility to addiction.

Well, actually that's the other side that we have that we are born with. yeah, as you said in your thread. starting to feel offended, rebelling, blackmailing each other, even losing empathy. Then, greed takes part in order to reap as much profit as possible. What started out just for fun, is slowly being eroded without realizing it by the greed and unconsciousness of the people involved in your posts. Then, the era of online betting platforms was introduced with the development and sophistication of technology, betting fans were very enthusiastic about welcoming it. That's natural, because it makes it easier without having to look for opponents to gamble with. There are various features introduced by online casino platforms, regardless of the site. No need to go to an offline casino, bet with friends or family. In online casinos, we can play as we wish and even do it secretly. well, what you say in this thread, is an experience experienced by many gamblers. but because you are discussing the other side of gambling, things that you and I have mentioned in this post. So, it's not the casino platform that makes someone unusual.  However, it is the individual problem that is the real problem. the most common case is, the case of an addicted gambler. there are many who look for justifications, related to advertising, casino platforms and the like. But in essence, we are the ones who are responsible for what we do. Well, I guess, do you agree with what I said?

Gambling experience for beginner is almost same most especially when it has to do with how we managed ourselves around it and becoming firm and stable base on emotions and our ability to withstand loses and other aspects that comes along with Gambling and it risks and jow we grow along with it, gambling is quite unique that it experience seems to be same.

But gambling with friends and family may not be a good approach I will rather gamble on an online casino rather than visiting a physical casinos with family or friend.

If our thinking is kept rational, this will never happen but in some conditions that occur there is a lot of naive thinking about this which makes it seem as if the impossible is possible. Gambling in the end will not change anything especially we also seem to have to rethink that what jobs ultimately spend money first before getting paid so when we become a gambler then we have to think more clearly so that the thought that gambling will be used as a job and definitely get income for daily needs is ridiculous lol.

We are already considered bad when we become a gambler if we look at the stigma of the wider community today but we also must not forget the fact that gambling is only for entertainment not to find a source of wealth, although it is not wrong to expect to win but that does not mean we consider it a job.

No, when your minds thinks about playing gambling more than the other activity, you will not notice that you already lose much money because your focus will be at gambling and not the other activity. That's why we as a normal people will say that's impossible if we can't realizes because we are not in their position. You will not feel about your losing because you wants to make money from gambling no matter if you already lose much money. If people will not realize when they must stop, they will become addicted to gambling and that will not takes too long because they will comes back to gambling and stay there longer than usual. But before someone involve in gambling deeper than the other people, they needs to learn about controlling themselves so they can have good self control when playing gambling. They will have a chance to prevents the big lose and not trying to playing gambling longer than usual because they know that will caused them losing more money.

You would only notice it on the time that you have seen yourself that you are already having nothing left on your pocket or money that you could be able to play on, or you would really be able to see that you cant really be able to provide something or buy up you do want because you do lack funds or money on which this is something a primary problem for most gamblers who do mess up their lives
due to compulsive gambling and this is something that must be avoided but well not all people would really be having that kind of thinking about gambling and they would really be tolerating it
as much as they could.

Gambling isnt bad if you are really that responsible towards it. Treat it as a form of fun and entertainment and not something that you would really be making it as a source of income
because once you do have this kind of impressions and mindset then you are really that going into the wrong way.

It's true, by initially gambling for fun or just for fun as you said, over time changes can occur, where gambling was previously just for fun but will gradually become a habit that can't be left behind and eventually puts you in a bad position. We are addicted to gambling which is detrimental financially and in other aspects. What you say is true, especially now that there is online casino gambling which makes it easier for many gamblers to carry out their habit without having to step foot into a physical casino gambling place.

I agree with you, it is true that they become addicted and experience big losses because they themselves are wrong in gambling, where they gamble inappropriately, they go too far with the gambling they do, so it causes them to experience such big losses. and triggers the destruction of his own life. We must be able to take responsibility for all the actions we take, including the gambling we do, because it is our own actions, even though we see or try strategies used by other people who are said to be able to win, but the actions are purely because of us.

How my gambling life started is when I was small, i usually see my dad playing lottery games. Though I didn know what it was all about, but I know my dad always come with something at hand praising himself as the king of lottery or gambling. but I never knew what he was doing then, and he promised me that our lives will change very soon, up till date I haven't seen the suprised. And as a child I believed so much on my dad. He started sending me to play game for him which I did. gradually I started playing my own. and started having same hope of my dad till today I and my father have not yet won what we planned for gambling. That is to tell you that gambling is very difficult and that was how I was able to know about gambling.

Is it like a talent passed down from father to son?
Even though it looks cool, to be honest, it's not good for your development. even if you buy the lottery or play with a small nominal amount. but your father should have taught you to strengthen your finances first before you spend more on gambling.
I mean your father should have set an example of a better way to make money than continuing to be consistent with his gambling which, as you said, is difficult to get.

I think it is more of a juvenile thing to visit physical gambling shop with family members. You can see the young people who do that most times with family members but those who are quite old gamble on their own separately especially where the family isn't a gambling home. Where the parents are not gamblers the siblings would not freely go out to gamble together because their parents would ask there whereabout and in fact, in such homes you will find very few of the siblings who gamble because they won't be use to it if the father is not a gambler.

But certainly, more gamblers gamble with friends and they seek analysis from themselves.

We can't all like the same thing I guess, some people do prefer going to a nearby casino with their friends, I don't understand why but I guess it is something they just like, but for someone like me I will surely have a problem with this because I don't like distraction, even outside of gambling I hate to be distracted, if I want any company it won't be when I am gambling.

When it comes to watching movies then I most times enjoy watching with someone, maybe my spouse or friend, but when it comes to gambling, trading, or investment I don't like it, I would rather lock myself indoors and do my thing.

I wonder why people get into gambling when they need money or are in a bad financial situation, one should at least know what they are getting into before they use their money, so when someone is getting into gambling, they should know that gambling is not a guaranteed way to generate money and they can even lose what they have right now which can make the things worse. So instead of gambling, a person in such a situation should look for a better way to earn some money, maybe get a job or something.

Gambling is for people who can easily afford it, they wouldn't be bothered much if they lose when they are gambling, but if all you have is $50 and you use that on gambling hoping that you might win something, you can lose that as well, and then you won't even have money to have food. What would you do next? So in my opinion, a person should think about all the consequences before getting into something like that.

They will only regrets of what they did in gambling and not realizes that they don't have any money because of playing gambling. They must learn from what they did before so they don't doing the same mistake in the future because that will only gives them more problems that they can't solve it. When they have a problem in gambling, they needs serious to solve it because that related to their financial and themselves. When someone can manage his lives better between his real life and his gambling activity, he will not have a problem from playing gambling. They will not becomes compulsive gambling or playing gambling excessively.

Playing gambling is okay if they can have self-control so they will not gets a problems from gambling. They will have a chance to control themselves with limitations and will prevents the risks becomes bigger. They will not used gambling as a source of income because they knows that will not works for them and only gives them lose the money.

I can't deny that my beginnings as a player were very hard, I lost too much, at one point I had to control myself and I did everything possible for that, but I couldn't always, my results were very disastrous, I can't say that I was doing badly all the time. No, because sometimes I did win, and I had a good balance, but suddenly I applied the martingale strategy and then I lost everything, in fact I lost everything like 3 times, and I finally understood something, I did try to control my emotions because I couldn't have a Good experience, I tried to find strategies to control my emotions but it didn't work for me.

After all this I began to do the same trading strategy and gave free rein to my emotions, that was the only way to be able to play with control and without decapitalizing myself, and the strategy is to control the money I put in the casino, if I put it 20usd that was the only thing that was Profitable and no more.

What they are thinking is not complex at all, if someone is lacking money what they want is to find a way to make the money they are lacking, but everyone knows there is not really many ways in which you can earn money quickly, so in their desperation those people prefer to gamble as a way to solve their problems quickly.

However just as things could get their way, we know that things can also take a turn for the worse, and instead of solving their money problems, their problems will get many times worse.

Every individual can afford gambling therefore gambling is for everyone, the only problem is that some individuals refuse to gamble based on their level of wealth and this is why they're always losing and getting addicted as they want to gain back their lost money. If you have only $50 you can gamble but you wouldn't have to gamble all your money. When gambling you should only use your spare money therefore out of the money you can use 10% for gambling and you'll be okay.

When you exhaust your 10% and you haven't made any profit, you should stop gambling and wait until you have more spare money before you start again but if you make profit, you can remove your capital and use another 10% to add and continue gambling. Gambling is a game of luck but if you strategize correctly you won't be at lost when gambling as you'll always have your capital and some profit saved.

Wow that is a great story mate so indeed that we choose to create our own path than following
those what we do believe is wrong and must not be followed , like ours? there are lots of people that battling
in the same situation as ours back in the days but with perseverance and dedication >? i believe that they will
act accordingly and will never suffer from the same path as their oldies does in the past.

I wasn't really a gambler before; I was just jealous of my friend who often wins; he doesn't even gamble every day. It seems like in a month he only wins 2-3 times gambling,
which if I count the ones he won playing for 500-1000 dollars, the amount of his winning price ranges.

That's why the first time I tried, I immediately experienced winning; at that time, it was around 80 dollars, and then what I did was so happy that I immediately lost my investment.

That was your first mistake, to think about that money as if it was an investment when it was not, if you are going to gamble then you need to consider that money as lost already, and if you cannot bear the thought of losing that money, then that is money you should not bet, still it is understandable that you thought in that way as the luck of your friend made it seem as if obtaining profits this way was easy, something that experimented gamblers will tell you could not be further from the truth.

I never had a good memory about how my gambling life started, while in school I often follow my friends to betting shops to stake their games . Then I never knew anything about gambling I always sit and wait for them to do their business and after that we will go . But one day I decided to try it and I asked them to reprint one of the copies for me which they did why laughing at my demands and fortunately for us the game played and that was how I developed interest . After then I started enjoying the fun and also trying to book games on my own without waiting for my friends to do so for me and that was how i started gambling.one thing that I learnt from my friends was that they have targets and budgets . They Dont place bets outside their targets and they don’t exceed a certain amount of money . And that was how I managed to start and I do control my emotions just like them and I have never regretted knowing them and following them to gamble . And that was the little experience that pushed me into playing bets.

These type of encounters are common and are the usual events that lead up to people getting addicted to gambling. As long as you control that emotion of jealousy and pride and are able to control the greed it will not harm you, because you will only be playing for fun and not playing to make money. The second point is the thing that drives people to gamble - easy money. But it is not so for the players than it is for the casinos.

It might be worth experimenting to check what your friend feels about gambling today.

Its common as you have said since we are humans and can often develop a jealous kind of nature towards each other, most especially when others are having more upper edge over us in gambling, that is why to an extent, i will prefer making such with an outsider or friend than a family member, because i won't allow gambling to be the determining factor to how we are going to relate well or not with some of the family members, pride and jealousy will affect us both.

The gambler who play the random betting will loss the game money,it may leads to the loss of money in the gambling site.The gambler who control the greedy and the emotional decision in the game will able to play the safe game in the gambling site.The greedy in the gambling will always affect the players,because after some profit was raised by the player.The greedy will make the player to play further till he manage the money which is essential for all his financial problems.

But trying to solve all the financial problems in one game is not the wise one,instead the gamblers can use the profit to shot out some of the financial problems.So he can use the next game to increase their profit,many games in the gambling site will help the gamblers to manage the big profits with the gambling.The casino in the gambling site based on predictions and had a way to loss on wrong prediction.

There are many people who can earn profit from various gambling games but they are never greedy.  If greed is at work in gambling, no matter how much you win, you will think that if you continue to gamble, you will probably win more and continue to gamble to lose all the money.  However, gambling can be a very good experience for some and a very bad experience for others.  But one thing everyone should always keep in mind is that he will not have a bad experience in gambling only when he bets the amount he can afford to lose.

Exactly, it means that everyone can get a big win when they have very good luck but in the end it won't mean anything if you can't ignore the greed in you, because after all as you said above that in the end all the winning amount will be lost very quickly when someone applies greed, On the other hand I understand that greed won't always lead you to a disappointing end result but overall it's usually the case that most gamblers experience losing all the amount they've won before because after all it's gambling so the percentage of losses is usually higher than wins. However, greed is not a good thing in any case, especially when it comes to gambling where winning only depends on luck. Therefore, this is the reason why we are always advised to take prudent actions such as cashing out when you get your first win rather than chasing something bigger but there is no certainty that can guarantee victory.

I agree about the jealousy thing when it comes to your friend's gambling wins.  It's tough to see him celebrating these big payouts and have the thought hey, why not me too? But the thing is - you only see those wins he decides to show off, not the heaps of losses that stay behind the scenes.  Its kind of like social media in a way.  Folks post snaps from their beach vacations and five-star restaurants, but you don't see the mounds of dirty clothes waiting at home or those days at the office that just drag on.  Same idea with your buddy's betting habits.  He might be hyping up a few solid wins but trust me, there's a whole lot of painful reality that hes not putting on display.

It always felt bad as a kid to lose money after a bet with friends or family. Most gamblers today may have gambled at a young age and didn't get along with the way their pocket money gets finished quickly. I don't remember going after more money in competitive board games in those days. However, it was interesting to participate in game with friends without expecting any money. The fun worths it, other than the argument that may erupt just like Op mentioned in his last lines. These personal challenging encounters affects some gamblers to play recklessly.  However, a gambler that's conscious of his expenses and manage his money proficiently he wouldn't have a hard time with gambling.

Getting too attached to gambling is not recommendable. But a player who is moderately engaging in the game, expecting to win, but not desperate to win, will enjoy his game. Compared to players who wants those wins at every cost. That's rough for their finances. Greed also plays a vital role in derailing the good habit of most gamblers. I hardly have experienced a time I felt comfortable with the amount of money in the bankroll. Always wanted more, but with the few limitations the involuntary greedy behaviors gets monitored not to land me into trouble. Similarly, many other players feel the need for more money and endless engage in gambling routine that will cause them problems.

Probably we all have experiences as a kid on friendly games, where we just want to have a little thrill and make it more fun, I mean it was pretty common for sure if you just played for nothing, it wouldn't make you play serious in some situation since you don't really have anything to lose at some point, even though you lose the game then you lose that just how it works right, you didn't really have to lose anything on that probably just pride, but it was still normal to lose sometime. Putting some kind of bet on this is going to make it more fun and serious for sure since it would include reward, or most of the time money betting, I usually do this on basketball games, which is pretty common when I'm still high school for sure for quick money if you're a good basketball player, you could easily make quick money, as well as you just wanted to just play as well since just scoring, shooting, running etc. is already fun. I would say that its probably where I stated to start gambling as well, and probably if you are familiar with carnival which is pretty popular here in my country I was really addicted to those carnival games.

My gambling life something I don't even know how it started lol, but eventually I can remember it. First my teenager years I was so in love with anything concerning football, I was so focused on it and develope a feeling of playing football everyday of my life at school i always came back home late cause I was playing football. It started all those times but I've no clue about betting online but we do bet at the field while playing football.

 We continue gambling and playing I started tasting how gambling winning is whenever we win. But my mom was very angry at me cause I was coming back home late hours, with the gambling money at school I started doing some savings with the it and I got my self a cellphone. Before my mom stopped me of playing football and coming back late hours from school, then I started with PlayStation video games. Some days I don't even go to school me and my friends we just branch at the PlayStation shop.

We'll kill all the times there not even thinking of going to class then I was in my o level at school, we gamble everyday non stopping i lose and some days i win my mon and dad  usually give me money everyday. And whenever i noticed that today I'm going to need extra money I most find a lie just to take more money from them, my friend's will be waiting for me at the PlayStation shop back then their parents was richer than mine.

Somedays I'll decide to go to school cause some of my teachers that likes seeing me in class have noticed my disappearance, what they do is to call my mom for not seeing me at class for some days then we discovered another strategies. We go to school in the morning write our names on the attendance list then leave to the shop we continued this not until our school principal cought us at the PlayStation shop one morning and reported us to our parents, they've to change my school.

Then I quitted for some years before entering to my high school, this was the level that no one can control me any more I continue with the PlayStation video games first before discovering the online betting sites. Here was non stop my parents were sending me mone, I was so addicted into gambling myself I noticed that I'm taking this too far it might affect my study's then i stopped the PlayStation video games. Continued with only the online gambling.

My parents they knew that the spirit of gambling was still inside of me cause whenever they send me money it won't take up to a week before it got exhausted. I tried quitting but no way my mom continued praying for me before I graduated from my high school life. Now I got work still gambling, for me I gambled even more now then the online bet makes everything easier for me now. I also do gamble on cryptocurrency betting sites as well, so my gambling lifestyle was incredible if wasn't for God and for the prayers of my mom, I don't think I could've made it to where I'm now.

As a teenager i had similar experience with some friends, but then since most of us where not working or bold enough to stake their pocket money on card games we do stake our snacks or any other meal and the winner takes it all, it used to be very fun until some guys kept losing and couldn't take it anymore then it lead to a fight and we had to stop cause it got the attention of our parents.

 Most people are not able to control their emotions when they lose in gambling, well it's normal to be emotional as a human but before one could go into gambling you'll have to kill your emotions cause you'll definitely secure lose in gambling and if you're an individual who got into gambling without a good skill and strategy then you might encounter a lot of losing streaks before you finally make profits when you've learnt.

Yes, anything can be maintained even if it's just the snacks we have. When watching a football match with my friends, I also usually make bets on cigarettes.
in such bets, I think it is not too serious to hope to win or lose so that it leads us to a fight. especially with our friends, it's unreasonable to lose control like that. unless you are drunk.
Emotional control is very important for those who play in casinos. You have to know when to continue playing or when to leave the game. You have power over your finances. So don't waste your savings on the game.

I think the best way to say this is, if you know you can't help it but loose your temper when you lose multiple times, then you shouldn't be gambling in the first place, though personally, I understand that it can be hard, really hard to lose your food or snacks, over and over again, losing your food to friends in gambling simply means you will have to stay hungry until the next meal time, and that can be really hard and frustrating for many, so the best is to avoid playing games where you have to stake your food and snacks - this goes out to this reading who still engage in such things as betting on the outcome of sports matches with their good.

And personally, I feel that losing money to gambling is way easier to bear than losing ones food, because for many, it's better to lose money and end up with an empty pocket while their stomach is filled up, than be with an empty pocket and as well lose your food as well, which means, you have to go hungry, even with no dime in the pocket.

Yes, I get the point, ones someone is increasing their stake he is gradually becoming addicted, at the first time gambling, he will not have any problems with the games, only what he wants is to win. As the gambler is winning 5 hands in 10 he won't complain. To my own obsession, I think it's only if a gambler is winning more than he's losing it will make the gambler to wager higher than what he has been staking. Well it's quite obvious that some gamblers feels jealous when their fellow gambler or their friends is winning more than them, and such attitudes will also make the gambler to lose more.

I think this is the reason why other gamblers don't like the winners sharing their tickets. They don't want to be jealous of it and then end up betting the same way as the winner did. Well, it's all up to us and as a responsible gambler, I don't we have to envy those who win big amounts. Let's also think about how much they risked when they did that and how afraid they are to lose that kind of money. Also, we should also consider the amount they wasted before hitting a high amount multiplier. It's not like it can be done in just one bet, that's rare to happen.
IMO, I like people who would share their winning tickets because that proves that it can really happen to anyone and not just the streamers who are faking their happiness just because it is meant for advertisements. Different winners can prove that it is real.

Allowing your gambling habit come in between you and your family is a problem on its own because its definitely not going to make sense in the tail end of your activities but then if you are really mindful how it will affect you and your relationship with both family and friends, I think you will get to, maintain a better gambling habit than you would normally because if you are having issues with family due to your gambling habit you are going to have a disturbed mind and may at times not be able to concentrate and gamble better and your results are definitely going to be affected.

Gambling with outsiders probably friends too you still need to apply some caution because even all that which you have mentioned can possibly get to come in between you people too if not properly handled too aswell so which ever it is just make sure to be mindful of your relationship with others how it's been affected.

You’re right, it’s not a unique situation as most persons unconsciously started gambling with this method. The games might be different but, followed similar pathway to getting introduced into the game. Next, a gambling habit develops.

Gambling though existed prior to your time, this I’m certain of. Right from the BC and AD, gambling have surfaced, been regulated and even taxed. It’s only recently taken a different fold due to the innovations of our time, despite how it’s differently regarded by persons of different culture and popular beliefs, gambling has been with us still.

Now that we eventually realize the inherent activity we’ve been involved in from an early stage, we have to develop a means of control on how it impacts us else, we would be lost.

That's normal if you lose much money in the beginning you playing gambling and knows gambling. Usually, beginners don't have good self control but if they can learns about self control, they will not lose much money like before because they can control how much money they can use to playing gambling. It's good if you can trying to control yourself every time you playing gambling because that can makes you becomes responsible with your gambling activity. With always practicing your self control, you will not have to face a problems in gambling even you can enjoy your gambling activity as a fun things in your free time so you can relax by playing gambling.

Emotion can becomes bigger if we can't control but if we can learn and practice controlling emotion, we will have a chance to take care of ourselves. We don't have to use much money to playing gambling instead just use enough money to playing gambling. We knows that we must playing gambling moderately to avoids big lose.

I agree I think most of us started our gambling life on our early childhood, we used to play games with bets even though we don't see it as gambling back then because there is no money involve only cards or other toys.
But looking back it is where it all started, our gambling journey betting or whatever we want to call it, back then it was just a simple games as a child but it was the start of our gambling journey, we just grew up from betting or risking collection cards or other sorts of toys into gambling with actual money.
Looking back at it, I only grew a little bit from how I play back then I only stop when I don't have anymore cards to bet.

out of our curiosity we are trying what we saw. Especially in gambling once we have already a good amount of money then we saw our friends playing gambler using cards then our of our curiosity we will try and use our money as a bankroll. And that's how mostly gamblers starts. Anyways it's up to us if e gonna control ourselves or not in gambling cause if we can't control ourselves the one thing for sure. We gonna have a chance that become snd addict in gambling.

Normally gambling Starts from little stakes then as time goes most gamblers begins to increase their stakes more especially when they had a little win previously so they will think that had it been they increased their stakes that they would have won huge and most of the time, gamblers with higher stakes losses more despite that their risk is also less sometimes.

In the old days this card game you made mention of was the gambling that was trending as at that time and people were not too informed about other form of gambling except those who play RSK pools those days and treble chances so this card game were mostly played by young men and despite that some stakes are being set but they do it for fun though there are times when disagreements erupts from the game due to some misunderstanding but afterwards they will still settle and continue but all thanks to modern day gambling because had it been the physical gambling methods still conquers till now there would have been some kind of bad situations due to physical violence that may come out from a misunderstanding among players.

Every one of us here have our different old or new ways that made us to go into gambling. If it is as you have just described it now, then you have been a very old person in gambling. In my vicinity and even in neighborhood people are not so engage in this card game again because modern gambling and gaming activities have taken over. The popular games that almost every guy in my school campus is playing now is "call of Duty".

Money has been discovered to be one of the major causes of family issues. This is why I don't like doing business with family members or friends. I prefer to gamble with outsiders because there are no emotional attachments. If they lose everybody will go home peacefully because there is no relationship. I could remember when my friend got some amount of money from his cousin through gambling. The next day his cousin came with the mother and demanded a refund. My friend was forced by his mother to refund some part of the wins because we had already spent some on a few bottles of beer.

Since the inception of online and crypto gambling, I don't think I will ever engage in physical gambling with friends or family members. It is better to face the house than to be subjected to emotional gambling. The house is not merciful, so when I beat the house I will not also show mercy.

Well, one of the things that as people we sometimes don't manage well are emotions. If we could control our emotions, I think the world would be better , in this order of ideas, or that's why I think it is, at least for me. It is better to control the money before my emotions , because within the emotions we have joy, adrenaline and above all the management of the risk of money, because if the emotions are in such a way that I can manage the money portfolio, then I believe that history in a casino It won't take long, in this case it is always preferable to do what I say, be very careful.

the thing that makes some people to gamble is what we call a sustainable empowerment so most especially student do take the list to gamble in order to sustain them in university so gambling is not bad and why some people who think that the gambling is bad is because they have no any challenge that is facing them but when they have a challenge that is facing them they will not be able to be gambling is bad to embrace but I did not say that when you have not understand the procedures

I do not understand the point of this post like, are you trying to be a cautionary example to people who have been afflicted with gambling addiction, are you trying to set an example of someone who's more responsible towards gambling, in which I'd like to say you suck cause you didn't even give us anything to be inspired by or whatever, or are you trying to share your story for the sake of sharing it, in which I'd tell you you're not as unique as you think you are, cause most of us here started that way as well, from friend and family gatherings that were once unserious turned into a more competitive setting, then we get tired of the low-stakes of it all and decided that we need more zazz when we gamble which turned into this lifestyle.

Not here to hate or anything (although it may sound or look like that), but we got enough spammers in this board already, make a pointless post and you're just adding up to the general spam and lack of good content, be more sensible with your posts, don't just post for shit.

They sees gambling as been bad because it's of two sides. Either for you to be more rich or you become poor. And in most cases the first one happens. If you aren't careful, you may spend all your life savings in gambling. Gambling involves great disciple on one self.

I don't doubt the fact that you said it got to the point where you guys started to rebel amongst yourselves, because that's one thing that open gambling (or street gambling) can do; it can even separate friends or destroy a good relationship if time is not taken. But now that there are rampant online casinos, you don't have to do gambling the old way any longer. The only way you can have issues with yourself or anybody else is if you become so addicted to gambling and start taking loans from your brother or friends and using the money to gamble. 

I remember you saying it was more business than fun, but you must not handle gambling as a business or you might soon become addicted. 

The gamblers who play their game at the street will mostly end up with the riots because of the loss of game or due to the miss communication among the gambling community.The transmission of the gambling site from street gambling had prevented the fight among the gamblers after the losses.This also prevent the fight between the gamblers and casino owner in the offline form.The gamblers who had ready for the loss and play the gambling with the responsibility will help them to get away from the gambling losses.The price money in the online gambling is more compared to the offline gambling because of the more number of people play the game across the world.

But the offline gambling only allow the local players for the game and the price money also low in the offline gambling.Now many trusted website available online and go for it to make good money from the online gambling site.Many cryptocurrency based gambling site help us to use trading cryptocurrency for the gambling apart from the fiat usage.

I originally got into gambling from the lottery, I used to win lots of lotteries at first. In real life the cost of the lottery would have been more than the price of the prize, but my addiction was to win the lottery. But since I got online later I bet mostly on cricket and football and once a week I participate to win the jackpot.  But so far I haven't won much because my jackpot winnings are huge. I will only participate in gambling until I can become a jack of all trades.

Emotions are one of the innate attitudes that everyone has and it is very difficult to control emotions, especially if emotions arise in certain conditions such as when experiencing failure then this will be much more difficult.
But this is in gambling and emotions often arise not only when they experience failure but also when they experience victory, they have emotions that become greedy attitude to be able to win bigger.
Basically, emotions that arise and cannot be controlled under any circumstances will only give bad results and of course we all have to be able to control our emotions when doing any activity, including gambling.

For money management, I think we can all still do it and minimize excessive use, controlling emotions will be much more difficult than managing money.

Yes and I agree with that because after all the name of gambling will always be about two things that are between winning or losing, as you said which is where a gambler can become richer in a short time but can also become a street beggar in the sense of losing everything they have in a short time.

Let's think with common sense and a rational point of view that gambling winnings in gambling has absolutely no consistent element and also has absolutely no guarantee and certainty at the beginning of the session to know whether you will win or lose at the end of the session, And with this it is clear that no matter how much you win, it is likely that in the end you will run out of all the money because of the losses that can never be tolerated but there is actually another way to really be able to keep the big winnings that you managed to get which is to quit as soon as possible from gambling completely and save the big winnings as your provision for life, but obviously most gamblers cannot make decisions like this and instead what happens is that they are even crazier in terms of treating their gambling activities and this is the reason why gambling has a bad viewpoint in most societies.

It depends on our personality. If we are a foodie type of person or our motto is: "Food is life", then yeah that we can't afford to lose our food but for others like me, it's okay to go for hours without a food in my stomach just to do what I love like playing a video game or playing a gambling in the casino.

I can also spend more money in the game than the food that I really like. That is how addict I am on them. Not that I'm proud of it because it is still wrong but I'm only providing my response here. What is more worse is if we don't have both food and money. This is the true definition of addiction and this should be corrected immediately.

Gambling will make you rich but for it you have to lose a huge sum of money and have to spend lots of months to be a master in gambling but gambling will still be very risky because it is played based on luck and you cannot identify about your luck therefore you will randomly play bet as a result of which either you will become successful or will become poor.

Gambling is a highly risky field in which you will win if you have good luck and I think most of the people become addicted to it they are checking their luck again and again so they never end up gamble because they think that if they stop gambling then it will be their greater defeat.

Yes, our emotion can becomes higher without we realizes and if we already loses some money, that can triggers our emotion becomes high. If we don't have a good self control, we will not have a chance to controls our emotions instead will just follows the emotions and that can makes us to keeps playing gambling without stops gambling for a while. That's why we must controls ourselves and our money in gambling because the risks of losing the money can be bigger and that can makes us loses more money. We already starts our gambling lives but we have a chance to control it so that will not gives us a problem in the future and that's why we must becomes a wise gambler. Controlling our emotion is one of many things that we must do when playing gambling because gambling had many temptations that we can't knows when that will comes.

Call of duty? Did you mean the one in which if you lose, you will be told to perform a task? That's for little children and could be so abusive and dirty if that is the case. Though the recent development in the gaming and gambling industry is causing a whole lot of the old funfilled ways to be abandoned, it still can't be blamed alone, civilization is causing a whole lot too. If I should be counting the funfilled ways we engaged ourselves in games and betting while I was growing, I would still be counting over 25 without mixing words. Civilization is abolishing them now, but some are still predominant in the more local areas.

If it were to be how I started main gambling per se, I would say that nothing influenced me but just decided to start betting then and I was already in university at that time. I've seen a whole lot of gambling options while I was growing but none was ever my preference until football betting started online, and I must say that I started with it before I started adding the casinos to it, especially lotteries at that time.

Gambling can only be a business if you are the owner or investor of the casino, in all other cases you are just a player.

When you talk about the fact that gambling can quarrel between friends, maybe this is possible, but I think that more often it will be the other way around, when friends can share with each other opinions about gambling, about where they lost and how much, and also about winning, so I would say that there is more positive than negative in this. If one of his friends loses a large amount of money, he will dissuade his friends from repeating his path.

In this modern era, online gambling and online casinos have become a new choice for both new and old gamblers. I used to play physical gambling and I also experienced bad things. When you play with your friends or relatives and there is something controversial, it will cause a commotion and will destroy the relationship that has been built. Usually cheating can occur intentionally or at the provocation of the winner. But with online gambling and casinos the only thing you think about is yourself. In my opinion, something that must be managed when gambling online is the fact that online gambling can make you 20 or 30 percent more likely to become addicted than physical gambling. Honestly, I see that my friends who still gamble with physical cards are not as addicted as my friends who play online gambling.

In my place, street gambling is still practiced in the neighborhood, and yes, it oftentimes turns out to cause conflict due to non-compliant participants who try to act smart. Even in some casino shops or centers in my place, you will see gamblers having conflict, and it can lead to a fight. Online gambling has indeed made it possible for some people to only gamble from the comfort of their homes, which has therefore reduced the rate of conflict or fight that they might have caused if they went out to bet in street games or in physical casino centers. In both offline and online gambling, there is no one that is less risky, as they both have the same risk of losses. No matter how careful you are, you cannot escape losses throughout. 

That is absolutely 100% true.You cannot have a gambling business if you are a player and not the owner of the casino,every person who plays in the casino and call it a business then most likely they are referring to losing business not bringing any revenue in the long run,as in the long run the house edge is always put in place exactly for the simple reason that the casino to be in profit over the long run.The reason why people still keep playing in the casinos is that in the middle of losing there are a few lucky guys who hit for example some max wins in the slot machines,they put that replay of such win in Youtube/Twitch and other people get interested to start out and try,that is the reason we see many new comers to gambling.Also the economy in our time in most countries is only worsening so more and more people look at gambling as trying to recover some money through it.

I am sure that everything does not start because of the challenge, people start gambling not because of the challenge in my opinion, most people start gambling because they see the interest in many people who multiply money in gambling with small capital can get a big win, I am very sure that most people who start gambling because they have an orientation towards the benefits that can be obtained instantly without making great efforts, such as work and others.

Some people in my neighborhood started their interest in gambling because they saw their friends getting big profits and it spread to their neighborhood, almost all in my neighborhood who gamble are because of the influence of their friends, there is no principle of trying to take risks or looking for challenges in gambling activities, maybe this could be different in the environment in your area, but I am quite sure that all of this is hand to hand, word of mouth until it spreads tremendously not only the level of students and students, almost all associations, especially those who have access to cellphones.

What sort of expenditure do you make with just $1 bill? It's reasonable enough to rather say you started gambling away 'em cents from your momma's purse. If you're a Nigerian (and if), then I think you're just tryna f**k around.

I feel things won't go sideways until the day you decide to hit a casino house, or get 'em logins to a site. Getting registered and funding an account to wager is the hardest decisions that so many juvenile gamblers make so easily, without further considerations. So if this is an analogy of the real fact that degenerate gamblers are raised from the hood - just like you described, I think I'll tend to agree more.

Card games is for me the most common game we are used to learn in our younger days influenced by either a family member, relatives and friends. But mine is not from playing cards but from a three digit lottery game here in my country and believe me or not I started gambling at the age of I think that was 5 years old as that was the most popular gambling game here in my place even to this day I was personally influenced by the people around me including my family, friends and relatives. Gamblers even ask me some combinations in the hope of winning and yeah I don't know if it was just a coincidence or just luck but they won more or less 5 times though not a winning streak since sometimes winning combinations were different from what I gave to them. 😅

At some point this is how most of us experienced gambling at first too, we all went in small bets just for fun sometimes either between friends outside betting on a random thing or at school, at home and so on. We didn't take these things seriously back then I guess but it somehow how the pleasure of gambling grows inside of us and it depends on someone's preferences and interests.

I myself remember back in the days before I got introduced to the online gambling world and casinos, I used to throw a bet with my friends, the bet is basically to run fast and the one who reaches a significant point wins a small very very small amount of money.

My beginnings in gambling were a little different. Basically my gambling journey started after joining and watching my friends gambling. Some may start their gambling life by watching others gambling while others may start their gambling life by placing small bets with friends. There are no strict rules here. I find most people manage their gambling by following others. I myself used to bet with friends when I was younger, although there was not much money but I subdivide it enough. I think most gamblers start out like this. However, each person will have a different story. I have also heard stories from some of my gambler friends where some started gambling from street gambling.

We have for more than once argued this, where some people agreed that addiction to gambling can come from both online and offline gambling. Yeah, I am among the people who believe that both online casinos and traditional gambling systems have the same rate of making someone addicted if the gambler lacks self-discipline.

What I agree with from other things you have said is that offline gambling can cause more conflict than online gambling, and the reason is not a secret. 

In fact, whatever the type of gambling and wherever you gamble, online or physical, the possibility of addiction will always be there, the difference here is only the place of gambling but still for the problem of impact and possibility is the same because still wherever you gamble, the name of gambling is still gambling, There is no difference and as you said that both types of gambling have the same possibility of addiction, and the rest depends on how the approach the gambler has, if for example they have the wrong approach then obviously wherever you gamble, addiction is a sure thing.

Another thing is that I agree with the idea that the physical gambling type is likely to have the potential for conflict with other fellow gamblers because of course you are gambling in an atmosphere where you encounter many people who may be trivial things can become a problem if you cross paths with someone who has a sensitive personality or is easily emotional.

It's like this, what happens is that many players do not apply this and they prefer to manage their emcoins and end up losing control, so because of this they lose a lot of money, because they are not clear that it is easier to have money than to manage emotions, I I am one of those players who have tried to manage their emotions, and I have not been able to, there are always impulses, there is always adrenaline involved that sometimes does not allow one to control oneself, even though one has great control, so I chose to control my money, win or lose because things are very meant to be and understand that money in a casino is volatile and it is easy to lose it for us as players.

I agree with what you say, emotions already exist and can even be said to be innate from birth. Therefore, we will definitely find it difficult to regulate emotions, let alone eliminate emotions. The easiest thing we can control is the money we use for gambling.
Just limit the maximum game expenditure and don't add any extra money if it runs out. that way bigger losses can still be avoided.

Yes, and that's where the famous saying comes from: lose what you are willing to lose, from there no more, of course this is something that we see from the point of view of protection, and I apply this only to tradition, but I Know that in the game it applies, in the game we can also apply certain trading strategies and they are really fabulous, therefore when we are playing or even before playing we can define how much money we are willing to spend, and most importantly. It is having the discipline of not putting more money at stake if we lose than we are willing to lose, that is the most important thing, if we break that rule, the emoines have already beaten us, and we cannot control anything, resulting in loss of money.

However emotions can never be eliminated because as you said above that emotions are something that everyone is born with, emotions are not to be eliminated but to be controlled, on the other hand it is a fact that most people especially those involved in gambling that they will find it difficult to manage their emotions but I will say that the difficulty of managing emotions only exists in a gambler who comes with the intention and purpose of earning, the reason is clear that they come to get a win which means that when the results at the end of the session are not what they expected then obviously they will definitely get emotional.

This means that the ability to control emotions will most likely only be possessed by gamblers who come without excessive expectations of winning and other things to be able to avoid other bad possibilities is as you said by limiting everything in terms of budget and time involvement.

I actually started this gambling play like it was a social exercise at an underage, then I and crews who engages on it never had that insight that it has a limited age with side effects if not being concious of it.
Our parents too was less concerned to address us that such games are moderned for adult plays which kids of our age should be restricted from.
Probably they were less concerned because never knew it can be some acts we could grow up with.

Although we never had it to be gambling but we could say it is a game of challenge which the winner takes the crown of the stake.
And games that were most trending then was the cards, diles and the checkers.
So right now that the models of games has been developed with the online casinos, I bet you that most old time gammers who has been in the field before me are not aware about how the model games works.

I think a lot of people fall under this category asides the sports betting and online casino, gambling was done In streets among youths and sometimes kids who are not up to the adult age, I could remember i've played card games with some friends and sibling which involved staking any money we got and the lower takes it all. Well back then we never knew the consequences of what we're doing and how bad it's could make us become addicted to the gamè. I think that was where my gambling journey started but the 1st place I gambled on is spots betting cause I do view matches from your team. Well,

When you used to play cards with your friends, there was no such thing as feeling like you were missing out, even though it involved pocket money. There are people who actually have fun with the game and can play with their friends. but everything changes once we grow up and have dependents. The money we bet usually uses money that is a basic need that should be given to the family. instead of wanting to get more profit, we actually lose it and still feel burdened if our family doesn't have money to buy basic necessities.

The point is, try again like when you play with your friends. at that time you use your own money and there is no burden there. So even if you lose, you can still live your life calmly. instead have fun with the game.

Good, everything you say can be really useful and can keep every gambler from losing large amounts of money and can also minimize the occurrence of bad effects such as addiction, recovery efforts or even greed.
And on the other hand, emotional control is also very important because this will influence us in making decisions in gambling, just look at those who bet full of emotions will always do things that are careless and really go beyond their abilities.
But only handful of gamblers understand it and most gamblers never have an approach or attitude like that, and I think they always make mistakes because their goals and desires from gambling have exceeded their limits.
Goal of making money, enriching yourself is really bad approach so that those who only start gambling with an approach or goal like that will definitely only experience losses and also feel like they are always losing.

It is possible but not always. Sometimes there is still a gap and messes but this is normal since we are human beings. We ain't perfect and the chances of making mistakes are higher than doing good.
Don't go to the casino carrying a lot of money as we get tempted to gamble them all. Besides, we don't need a lot of money to enjoy gambling but this is different if you are a greedy person. Becoming a responsible gambler is what we need, yet it seems to be a big challenge for us as it was not really easy as we think.

Emotions are what make us human, and that is why we have such a hard time controlling them, which is why when we focus on doing things right, we determine what is most likely to happen, as I said before. , it is preferable to control money than control emotions, but you should try my strategy, if you have 5, 10usd to be able to play without fear of losing them, then play with all your emotions on the casino, but if you reach the limit and lose everything, then you have You have to have the discipline not to put in more money, but if you manage to make a decent profit that is worth withdrawing, then don't think about it, withdraw that money.

It's okay to expect to win from gambling. because it cannot be denied that we all hope for that, maybe even you too. no one wants to gamble to accept defeat.
I really like the saying said by @LUCKMCFLY "lose what you are willing to lose"
That's an important point and must be adhered to by gamblers. they must be able to let go of what has gone, in this case gambling losses. as long as you don't want to lose, it's better to hold on and not gamble. the problem of winning is just a matter of luck. if you are lucky you will be happy, and if you lose you can still sleep soundly.

My gambling life started innocently enough. As a young college student, I was first drawn into a campus poker game by some friends. It seemed like harmless fun at first - we were only playing for pocket change. But soon I found myself growing addicted to the thrill of betting and the allure of winning. Before long I was skipping classes to play cards, betting bigger stakes that I couldn't afford to lose. From those small dorm games, I graduated to making regular trips to the nearby casino, blowing my meager student loans on roulette and blackjack. The flashing lights and excitement of the casino floor hooked me, and I was convinced my "system" would pay off big if I just kept playing.

The thing is that, we can't even categorise those games of those days in today's demands, this is very important to know because if we include those petty games like card games that we use to play in the past with current trends it means we may not be talking about gambling per say because those games can pretty be played by anyone without any restriction unlike in gambling where you have what we call age restrictions.


Card games was very popular with me while growing up, but at that time we don't know what gambling is all about and even those that play the card games with money sometimes get arrested for doing so reason being that gambling was not encourage with such primary elementary games.

What I think about all this is that when trying to do things differently, things have to be clear. If we are newbies, what we should be more careful with is money, because the emotions are there and the desire to win is much greater. . active and with all the hopes and strengths, but we have to fall into reality because when we do different things, like looking for ways to win through strategies or something like that, we cannot trust everything, so we as people as players must be smart and not give in to our emotions, because that is what makes us all lose, that is Why when we try to find a way to control ourselves so as not to lose so much, I believe that self-control should first focus on controlling our own money, or the money that you are willing to lose.

Well, gambling is gambling, no matter how we paint it and you guys, I mean your cousins should be feeling bad because what you guys wasn’t extortion but rather increasing the fun and urge for player to be serious with the game. Thank God for online casinos which have made our gambling lives very simple and been able to provide varieties of others games as well. 
The gamble you were trying to talk about is WHOT and it’s a nice game and it’s best enjoyed when the players are serious about it and having to bet on it isn’t a bad idea.

With this, I can only deduce that you guys are pampering weakness. Fine, so long as blood flows through our veins as human beings, we are susceptible to emotions, but at the same time, in activities like gambling, this is actually our choice. Someone like me is never emotional in gambling and I am proud of that, am I not a human being? This is why it is very good that we are engaging in our gambling activities nicely and sensibly in a way that is void of emotion and other weaknesses that can further weaken our minds.

If from the beginning many gamblers had been told and accepted the truth that gambling is not the place where you can make that money you are looking for, that would have been a different ballgame. But the issue is that gamblers are just venturing into it without thinking of the cons and pros of it. It is good that one can earn money in gambling but how many people are successful in making the money? This is what we should always be thinking above all other things.

Going forward, I expect all gamblers to fight more even if they've started on the wrong footing and with the wrong mentality about it. It is never too late to do the right thing and adjust our gambling activity and psychology. With the right discipline and determination, and also with the right money and risk management that the discipline and determination will help upon, I am certain that the gambling lifestyle of anyone will change for the better.

Thank you very much, the truth is I don't know this about the game, I only apply this in trading, but since I discovered that it does apply to playing in a casino because it suits everyone, don't think that it was difficult to reach that conclusion, because in the trading I have lost a lot of money too, because in the casinos it has also been like that, but since I learned that in a book everything has changed, if I lose the money I lose it is controlled, it is not much, it is fair, then I can give free rein to my Emotions, of course, in the casino it is the emotions, the impulses that are Evident, but in trading it is another responsibility.