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[Masplanc]

Most gambling site dont advice people below 18 years to participate.but I started playing gamble when I was 15 years , it was a normal thing to me, I didn't take it too serious though.

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[madnessteat]

I am truly glad that OP at such a young age understands more than some adults. Admitting the existence of gambling addiction to understand that it is detrimental to his life and begin to fight it is a very big step in the right direction. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavor!

Most adults know they have a addiction. I do not think it is a step in the right direction and I think that is a cliche that gives the impression that people are doing the right thing about admitting to it. Everyone in this thread probably has a gambling addiction to some percentage and they probably are aware that they have a problem. It does not stop them chasing the odds of getting rich though and admitting it to themselves is not going to stop them from doing that.

If a person realizes that he has some kind of addiction he has two ways to go:
1 start to get rid of the addiction
2 to pretend that the problem does not exist.

The guy chose the first option and I am sure he not only will save his money but his friends and family and he will have a real chance to achieve something in life and not become a loser who squanders all his money in the slot machine. What could he achieve by wasting his time, money and nerves on gambling?

[blackened515]

Gambling addiction is not good for anybody, both adults and teenagers. But, is worst when underage gets into gambling, because it always distract them from their studies and affect their Career, also they end up losing huge amount of money on gambling. But, I think what leads many teenagers into gambling are their friends, many of them are been introduced into gambling through thier friends. Although, some of them gets to know about Gambling through the internet. Am glad the OP, finally took a great step by quiting gambling.

[South Park]

Hey guys! I have recently taken steps to get out of gambling at age 14 so I want to share some information I got along the way!


I started gambling when I first started playing CSGO on skins gambling websites I had seen on Youtube. Fast forward a few years, and I am gambling cryptocurrency on Stake.com at the age of 14 years old. This is a problem, gambling for me was easily accessible, easy to get into, and fun. This caused me to spend more time doing it and to deposit more coins to make the stakes higher, I didn't lose much, but didn't win much also, I would split even most of the time. Yesterday, after realizing how much I think about it I made a thread asking people for some advice on the situation, and the overwhelming majority said that I should leave the gambling scene because of how young I am. I totally agreed.

Now I want to help other people that were in the situation that I was in recently, if you have a problem with gambling, and/or are underage, please quit. There is no gain in a website that is against you. You are playing by their rules and will lose in the long run.

Underage gambling starts, for alot of people like how I did, gambling online items, sometimes worth real money, to try and get better items. This fueled the fire that caused alot of underage gamblers, including myself, to start looking into higher stakes gambling, crypto gambling.

Crypto gambling has many more risks than CSGO skin gambling, the chance to lose more is higher, and the stakes are heightened. Gambling at a young age will also effect your metal health, for me, I would stay up very late some nights just to gamble. Gambling addiction can also lead to depression, which in some cases has caused underage gamblers to take their own life. This is an unfortunate reality for those who are gambling underage.

So if you have a problem with gambling, such as addiction, gambling underage, or in my case both, please seek help. Do everything in your power to stop. It will improve your life drastically. So next time you think about gambling, instead of gambling, call an old friend and catch up, or go outside and go for a nice walk. Have a good one!

Thanks for sharing your story as it is useful to see the perspectives of those that are underage, personally I have never liked video games that have a gambling aspect to them and in which you can exchange items for real money precisely because of this, I think this encourages gambling decisions on the young that they are simply not ready to take at such an early age, then they make the transition to traditional gambling and that is when they develop problems that will take them a lot of time to overcome.

[Fredomago]

Gambling addiction is not good for anybody, both adults and teenagers. But, is worst when underage gets into gambling, because it always distract them from their studies and affect their Career, also they end up losing huge amount of money on gambling. But, I think what leads many teenagers into gambling are their friends, many of them are been introduced into gambling through thier friends. Although, some of them gets to know about Gambling through the internet. Am glad the OP, finally took a great step by quiting gambling.

Aside from family nature, friends are the mostly influenced this young adults, they've been introduced by means of stories and from that kids nowadays do have access online, they can easily research everything.

This kind of concern is part of the hardest issues that most parents are battling. They are unsure if how their kids will live along with these vices.

Without any good guidance, it will corrupt young minds and ruined their future. It's best trying everything to solve this and keep kids aways from gambling while you still can. The more engagement they've, the deeper they are digging from this business.

[Ultegra134]

I remember your case, you had created another thread about it,  I hope you get through it and seek help eventually.

Back to the subject now, no casino/website I've signed up requested any kind of verification. I get it that cryptocurrencies are supposed to be anonymous, but there are quite a few ways for underage users to obtain coins. I believe that there should be some kind of verification when signing up.

On the other hand, gambling websites will be against such measures, they don't really care about who and how their websites are being used, as long as money is being made.

[Sterbens]

At 14 years old, I don't understand why it's easy for you to test gambling. Most people at that age even that are even exposed to gambling are not interested since there are lots of things they can do like video games, computer games, mobile games.

At that age, they won't bother registering on the site and deposit a money. How can they deposit money on crypto in the first place? The exchange needs KYC before you can make a deposit with your fiat. And even before that, where are you getting your money?

As a factor that can influence a person to gamble is the environment around him and what appears on his cell phone is often there. I am thinking the same as you, how did he get this far in gambling to take gambling to the crypto stage and earn without going through KYC Lev1 data (minimum) based on residence ID which includes age. This can obviously hold him back, but not if someone else is intermediary for him to own crypto and receive it in his wallet.

Since the most important point was that he really had quit, even then if it was true what he said wasn't just an alibi. Despite the truth, this is certainly a positive thing. I wish he would share how he was able to quit at a young age when it comes to gambling whose addiction levels are more difficult to control than adults even when it is hard to quit gambling.

[newwest]

Most gambling site dont advice people below 18 years to participate.but I started playing gamble when I was 15 years , it was a normal thing to me, I didn't take it too serious though.

Site if are not strict then they would want as many users join them so that the more you play, end up losing means site benefits form it. IN the end its their business to make profits irrespective if you are 15 or 25 they do not bother much. But as an individual we need to thin that what is the age I should be when I can start gambling.

[qwertyup23]

So if you have a problem with gambling, such as addiction, gambling underage, or in my case both, please seek help. Do everything in your power to stop. It will improve your life drastically. So next time you think about gambling, instead of gambling, call an old friend and catch up, or go outside and go for a nice walk. Have a good one!

Hey, we are actually on the same spot!

I remember back in 2011-2013 where DOTA 2 keys where still in circulation, I used to bet my 30 keys (valued around $60) daily on dota2lounge website where I would be able to double or triple my profit. This gave me a false sense of security where I thought I was going to win every game on the team that I betted on. Unfortunately, all of my keys lost in the process which lead me to use the credit card of my dad (I was age 15) to purchase more keys.

To cut the story short, I lost all of my keys in the process and I receive a scolding of my life from my dad. The tip that you mentioned here is the essence of combating addiction- go have a walk or talk to someone. It will change your perspective and pull you out from that abyss and loop of gambling!

[ChiBitCTy]

I am sorry to hear that you are in this situation..getting addicted to anything can be a very hard thing.  I have to say I am impressed that you're so young yet signed up for bitcointalk and obviously know about bitcoin and perhaps "investing" some money in it.  I however don't think that gambling is that big of a problem for younger aged people like yourself. I dunno maybe things have changed but when I was your age I didn't know anyone at all who gambled.  It was just never a thing and I have a hard time believing that it is now.  14 year old's tend to not have much money after all.

[ReiMomo]

It's the parent's responsibility to keep their kids away from gambling and it's also the responsibility of the gambling houses and websites to keep away from children, even the government has to have some responsibility too, this epidemic can only be decimated by a combined effort of those 3 that I've mentioned but the biggest one should be the parents as they are the first line of defense of the kid.

So we should watch out for our kids for what they had played. Because as OP said, it was started when OP was playing CSGO, so meaning to say, there are a bunch of games that can influence underage people to gamble. But that is right, parents should have the responsibility for what their kids doing because we dont know that their activities are involved in gambling which we thought is fine since we saw it is only an online game.
However, limit and manage the activity of your kids is a good step and we should keep our eyes on them.

[savetheFORUM]

Crypto gambling has many more risks than CSGO skin gambling, the chance to lose more is higher, and the stakes are heightened. Gambling at a young age will also effect your metal health, for me, I would stay up very late some nights just to gamble. Gambling addiction can also lead to depression, which in some cases has caused underage gamblers to take their own life. This is an unfortunate reality for those who are gambling underage.

So if you have a problem with gambling, such as addiction, gambling underage, or in my case both, please seek help. Do everything in your power to stop. It will improve your life drastically. So next time you think about gambling, instead of gambling, call an old friend and catch up, or go outside and go for a nice walk. Have a good one!

"epidemic" is for viruses, but even with that it is regional. If you gambled at stake in anywhere of the world it gets out of epidemic and becomes pandemic, hence why covid is pandemic and not epidemic as well. Underage gambling can't be stopped without KYC and many people here like me do not want to have a KYC requirement everywhere we gamble. Which is why I honestly believe that we should be doing fine.

I know that we do not feel the big weight of this problem until someone gets hurt, but at the same time do we really feel responsible for others actions? If you are 14 years old and gamble at stake, is this the problem of stake, or others who do not stop stake? Or is this the problem that you have? Let's assume you steal from someone, or murder someone, is that our fault? You can do something illegal and you are taking that illegal option yourself, we are not giving it to you.

[cafucafucafu]

I think that it's certainly an issue.

However, the casinos who offer their services can't really do much other than to offer links to counselling sites and shut down any suspected minor accounts.

At the end of the day, you're the ones making the decisions. If the casino has clearly stated that it's for 18+ people only and there is a self exclusion scheme that you don't use, you can't really blame the game for your losses.