Do any people gamble under the age of 18?

[RedX]

I want to know if anyone here gambles or have gambled under the age of 18, I feel like there are many kids who do this and I am interested to see how many people actually gamble under 18, if you have any friends that gamble or have gambled under 18 include them.


EDIT: I mean mostly kids online, its hard to be a kid and gamble physically. I feel like the gambling rate for kids is increasing a lot and is gonna be a problem in the future, especially with the CS:GO situation.

EDIT2: Another question to ask, is what is your opinion on the topic of kids gambling, do you think it is a growing problem or a problem alone for that matter?

EDIT3: What is the best way to counter this problem without websites having to know your exact identity?

Yes my friend, I really find these a serious problem in the future. I know a lot a kids in my place gamble whether it's a card game or an online game. Also, it's really hard to counter when its in the web and I think their parents are the only one who can help them.

[LuanX3]

I want to know if anyone here gambles or have gambled under the age of 18, I feel like there are many kids who do this and I am interested to see how many people actually gamble under 18, if you have any friends that gamble or have gambled under 18 include them.


EDIT: I mean mostly kids online, its hard to be a kid and gamble physically. I feel like the gambling rate for kids is increasing a lot and is gonna be a problem in the future, especially with the CS:GO situation.

EDIT2: Another question to ask, is what is your opinion on the topic of kids gambling, do you think it is a growing problem or a problem alone for that matter?

EDIT3: What is the best way to counter this problem without websites having to know your exact identity?

Yes my friend, I really find these a serious problem in the future. I know a lot a kids in my place gamble whether it's a card game or an online game. Also, it's really hard to counter when its in the web and I think their parents are the only one who can help them.

It's a problem anywhere. Gambling is natural. People do it all the time and we don't even realize it. Ask kids we play with other kids and we often tell each other "I bet you are not good at basketball" or something in those lines. We actually use the words unknowingly connoting gambling, so I am not surprised about this.

[kodes88]

let the youth learn, but the fact that young people start playing games of chance with gambling can be a very bad trend.

But do not underestimate the new generations, I am not finding they will get suffered due to gambling addictions like the gamblers did in early days of internet.

One prime reason which is supportive for young generation of gambler is they are into multiple engagements. They easily get distracted by social media so the chances for them to spend more time with gambling will be very less and when they will be limited with gambling, the chances to get addicted will be very less to zero.

I disagree with this, while there are more distractions than in the past how many people have you seen that could be classified as addicted to facebook or twitter? Many and this type of behavior can easily be transferred to almost anything like video games or gambling.

Probability that may arise for a child of their age is very high, which is the stage of recognition and learning attitudes similar to behavior of adults. My point if they are comfortable with social media addiction, they will not get away from the addiction, and so if they have an interest in gambling, they will choose to be comfortable and continue to develop attention without thinking of other pleasures.

If you want to finish someone's addiction (the person under the age of 18), just cut their money source. These people are young and probably live with the parents, receive money from the parents and the only way these teenagers are betting is if they use the income the parents pay them. Cutting this income, they will have to stop playing and with bonus, maybe they start looking for work. 

Really, they will not be able to gamble again if they lose their source of income. And the children of today earn income from their parents. So to make them deterrent, close their source of income. New problems will arise if they choose to work and have their own money, we must have other options.

[crwth]

let the youth learn, but the fact that young people start playing games of chance with gambling can be a very bad trend.

But do not underestimate the new generations, I am not finding they will get suffered due to gambling addictions like the gamblers did in early days of internet.

One prime reason which is supportive for young generation of gambler is they are into multiple engagements. They easily get distracted by social media so the chances for them to spend more time with gambling will be very less and when they will be limited with gambling, the chances to get addicted will be very less to zero.

I disagree with this, while there are more distractions than in the past how many people have you seen that could be classified as addicted to facebook or twitter? Many and this type of behavior can easily be transferred to almost anything like video games or gambling.

Probability that may arise for a child of their age is very high, which is the stage of recognition and learning attitudes similar to behavior of adults. My point if they are comfortable with social media addiction, they will not get away from the addiction, and so if they have an interest in gambling, they will choose to be comfortable and continue to develop attention without thinking of other pleasures.

If you want to finish someone's addiction (the person under the age of 18), just cut their money source. These people are young and probably live with the parents, receive money from the parents and the only way these teenagers are betting is if they use the income the parents pay them. Cutting this income, they will have to stop playing and with bonus, maybe they start looking for work. 

Really, they will not be able to gamble again if they lose their source of income. And the children of today earn income from their parents. So to make them deterrent, close their source of income. New problems will arise if they choose to work and have their own money, we must have other options.

It's better to use the extra money you have instead of using your money overall. It's not the best thing to do because you can just save your extra money so in the future you could invest it in something better. That's for sure, like in bitcoin, if you bought while it was low, it is going to be awesome.

[marlboroza]

Gambling is natural. People do it all the time and we don't even realize it. Ask kids we play with other kids and we often tell each other "I bet you are not good at basketball" or something in those lines. We actually use the words unknowingly connoting gambling, so I am not surprised about this.

Exactly. Give 5 yo kid a candy he will take it. Give him chance to win 10 candies - to lose that one and get none or to win 10, guess what would kid pick...

I've found something for this topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho0g-Htvcgs  Not only they are gambling, they are even gambling(rock paper scissors) with who will be first to play. They are probably around 10 years old.

I remember doing this back in 1994.  

Nothing has changed IMHO.

[dasana212]

Gambling is natural. People do it all the time and we don't even realize it. Ask kids we play with other kids and we often tell each other "I bet you are not good at basketball" or something in those lines. We actually use the words unknowingly connoting gambling, so I am not surprised about this.

Exactly. Give 5 yo kid a candy he will take it. Give him chance to win 10 candies - to lose that one and get none or to win 10, guess what would kid pick...

I've found something for this topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho0g-Htvcgs  Not only they are gambling, they are even gambling(rock paper scissors) with who will be first to play. They are probably around 10 years old.

I remember doing this back in 1994. 

Nothing has changed IMHO.

Yes, many people who have gambled under the age of 18. I also ever, around age 12 years, the prize isn't money but a car remote control. A game is lottery, and i won it.

[infer]

In my countriy, there are many young people know about bitcoin and you need to know that they aalways love dice. I can admit that 90% of bitcoiners who under 18 are involving in gambling

[potatopower]

i used to gamble when i was younger than 18 years old, though the gambling wasn't too big because i just played poker with friends from small amounts of money

[ilovefeetsmell]

I remember that my first gamble is when I was on high school, so I was under 18 at that time. I was gamble against my own friend on a soccer match. It was only around $1 IIRC

Ohh yeah! That's true. I had already experienced different kinds of gambling. Like when we are in school, those gambling acts are the example of gambling.
when I was in high school I've experienced like "kara krus", pahulaan sa pera, spider fight, and etc. Don't mind the term I've mention  . But I'm sure under the age of 18 there's a lot of people gambling.

[kryptqnick]

Your parents are different ,thinking why they let you gamble seems they see an advantage or they let you explore Its a good thing also that they guide you .Its better that they know your activities so they can give you advise .

My father is also like that. I think I started trying gambling at the age of 16 or 17. He was also a gambler at that time (not a real addicted one) and showed me primedice. He was actually starting to get btc by gambling and then gambling and chatting, thus recieving a lot more from bots than bets. Anyway, I also got a bit interested and tried different bets, strategies and stuff. So, he just wanted to show me what it's like, maybe because he was afraid smb else will and that can lead to worse consequences.

[Janation]

i used to gamble when i was younger than 18 years old, though the gambling wasn't too big because i just played poker with friends from small amounts of money

I did too and it was really fantastic. I did gamble with my friends, it was my first time also, and even though it was my first, I won a lot of rounds back then. But that is not money, we are not betting any of our money, we bet our toys amd stuffs.

[STT]

I can remember gambling for cards, Top Trumps was one game where you just have choose the highest figure.  So top speed for a car vs the other persons card.   Super basic gambling at age 7 and if you won the card game you might win the other person snacks.   Is that gambling, its pretty mild.  The kids now because of technology dont have anything easy or low powered anymore and unfortunately I think their stakes are much higher.
Somebody always cheats in card games too, you can bet on it

[The_Dark_Knight]

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Yeah, the main reason when our kids start to play gambling, when parents don't care about their kids activities. Than definitely it is parents fault, why they are too much negligence for their kinds look after. Because if we care of our kids and tell them in the start when they are growing about bad activities than definitely they could safe themself and also safe them from gambling.    

As a son i will say you are wrong. My parents did(shit, they still are) care about my activities when i was kid. That still didn't stopped me from betting when i was under aged. But yeah, you can give your best to guide them but you can't put your kids under glass bell and hold them there 24/7.

An this is why we must teach them that is wrong and why it is wrong that way they can take the right decision without any input form the parents since they will know the difference between what it is right or what is wrong.

[nethan1btc]

Yes I know most of these people in my place  who among of them were very you at underage of 18 and they ccommonly  gamble their money for living, but not exactly for fun. They commonly appreciated it as for fun, and actually if you asked them; they do it to earn money from local games for living. Well I only mentioned such those small bets offline gambling, and the real score is the online gambling that could really influence a lot of young people now specially the freedom.of betting using bitcoin currency; and many of underage guys were doin it because of being anonymous.

[jossiel]

In my countriy, there are many young people know about bitcoin and you need to know that they aalways love dice. I can admit that 90% of bitcoiners who under 18 are involving in gambling

Well here in my country there are a lot of irresponsible parents and they can't monitor their children.

And that is resulting for their kids to be influenced by those old gamblers and let those kids to gamble at very young age.

They are even working just to gamble and have fun, poor kids I feel pity for them.

[gabmen]

In my countriy, there are many young people know about bitcoin and you need to know that they aalways love dice. I can admit that 90% of bitcoiners who under 18 are involving in gambling

Well here in my country there are a lot of irresponsible parents and they can't monitor their children.

And that is resulting for their kids to be influenced by those old gamblers and let those kids to gamble at very young age.

They are even working just to gamble and have fun, poor kids I feel pity for them.

well with the emergence of online gambling, I don't think parent really have control now whether their children would gamble or not. they would just have to teach their children how to be responsible and how to value money that came from hard work.

[Dontme]

Many people know that gumbling is fun and addictive and a lot of people under 18 years of age are doing gumbling because it is attractive and we know that youth are fund of having fun and wanted to have an easy money and gumbling can give both fun and easy money to people.

[frompz_]

in age 15 i started gambling with 20$. from 20$ got 70$ and lost all

[daringdiscovered]

I want to know if anyone here gambles or have gambled under the age of 18, I feel like there are many kids who do this and I am interested to see how many people actually gamble under 18, if you have any friends that gamble or have gambled under 18 include them.


EDIT: I mean mostly kids online, its hard to be a kid and gamble physically. I feel like the gambling rate for kids is increasing a lot and is gonna be a problem in the future, especially with the CS:GO situation.

EDIT2: Another question to ask, is what is your opinion on the topic of kids gambling, do you think it is a growing problem or a problem alone for that matter?

EDIT3: What is the best way to counter this problem without websites having to know your exact identity?

Yes my friend, I really find these a serious problem in the future. I know a lot a kids in my place gamble whether it's a card game or an online game. Also, it's really hard to counter when its in the web and I think their parents are the only one who can help them.

Although we can't prevent it, because the reason why they are doing gambling even in an early age is because of their environment, it is the influence of the peers, of their friends, and since they are just a kid, they are curious about everything in their lives, and they are going to try whatever they want whenever they want, because the excuse that you are going to hear from them mostly is they are free to do whatever they want since it is their own lives.

[shine1123]

I'm sure yes, somebody out there under 18 is also gambling. Actually my first gambling experience also under 18, around 16 years old. Especially everybody can do gambling at online nowdays. It's make more people under 18 to try gambling easily.