How was your first attempt to play gambling

[serjent05]

How was your first start? Did you play blindly or spent some time to learn.?

I remember my first involvement in gambling when I was young.  It was a card game called lucky 9, although I am more exposed to watching Cara 'y cruz (a toss coin that is regularly composed of 3 coins).  If anyone is thinking about what kind of card game lucky 9 is, you can refer to the definition in this link[1].  Quoting from the link:

Lucky 9 is a house-banked game scored like Baccarat and dealt like Blackjack using 1-8 standard 52-card decks. The object of the game is to beat the dealer with a higher valued hand as close to 9 as possible. Tens and face cards are worth 0 points, aces are worth 1 point, and 2-9 are scored at face value. Hands are valued as the last digit of their sum. Lucky 9 also includes optional bonus and progressive wagers.

I did not spend time learning the game since it is just a simple addition and I just need to beat the dealer's cards.  I learned it from watching older people playing that card game.

We all have a different experience how we started our first bet. Their are people who started bet without having any knowledge concerning it. Their are some people started with a help from a friend to bet and their are some who took their time to learn before they started paying bet.

How was your first start? Did you play blindly or spent some time to learn.?

Are you talking about crypto or online gambling or just the traditional one? I think traditional wasn't that scary at first since you know there's something physical to see and somehow you know people behind it unlike crypto or online gambling which makes you really doubt betting with them the first time. I play blindly on both but that's something I had to do to learn as well.

I think traditional gambling.  The first gambling game we participated in, probably.


If it was an online crypto game, then my first experience is in an online dice (freebitco.in), betting the satoshis I got from its faucet.



[1] https://www.galaxygaming.com/products/lucky-9

[Viscore]

We all have a different experience how we started our first bet. Their are people who started bet without having any knowledge concerning it. Their are some people started with a help from a friend to bet and their are some who took their time to learn before they started paying bet.

How was your first start? Did you play blindly or spent some time to learn.?

Yes, no idea about gambling before and I just put money. I forgotten the game that I've played for the first time but I just went with the crowd because they're all on it.
The experience of everyone could be that we all made the same mistakes of betting without knowledge but when we lose and then found it as a fun thing, we started to learn about it.

Same with mine too. I just did a random betting with a small amount at first, and then when I happened to lose consistently, that’s the time I started gaining knowledge about gambling and develop my own skills particularly in sportsbetting through my various experiences. Although losing is quite inevitable, but there’s always an edge if you know the game well than just go betting along with the crowd.

[gabbie2010]

We all have a different experience how we started our first bet. Their are people who started bet without having any knowledge concerning it. Their are some people started with a help from a friend to bet and their are some who took their time to learn before they started paying bet.

How was your first start? Did you play blindly or spent some time to learn.?

To be honest I was very jittery and emotional in my first experience in betting I was always checking my betslip from time to time to ascertain whether am still winning or not because of accumulated bets, of course I didn't bet blindly my preference is soccer betting being a soccer enthusiast, I played soccer as a teenager and grew to know every nitty-gritty of soccer as well as it various bettings with some little research after some analysis via different source I pick my bets and play it, of course I won some as well as lose some because I took gambling as fun thus I don't gamble with fear.

[MainIbem]

Sincerely speaking it was from an uncle who always gives me correct scores to go play for him at a local shop precisely Pool whereby only draws are winning. Then I never knew what was permutation and combination.
Then he would say "please tell the operator to play these game combination and then the rest game permutations". I was like what is he saying, then I don't
know what it's all about because was still little and had no experience. As time goes I kept studying and knowing things about it and started gambling my self but I never pays much more attention because I actually is not  a lover of gambling though recently been paying little attention.

[freedomgo]

We all have a different experience how we started our first bet. Their are people who started bet without having any knowledge concerning it. Their are some people started with a help from a friend to bet and their are some who took their time to learn before they started paying bet.

How was your first start? Did you play blindly or spent some time to learn.?

I started gambling because some of my friends are into it. As far as I remember, it was in lottery that I was able to win first a small amount and from then on, I started exploring some other interesting games with the help of my friends. Well, there are games that I found it quite hard to understand but with consistent experience and consistent losses lol, I started learning from it and realized that it would be better to gamble for fun and for some profits too.

[Hispo]

When I was a child my parents took me to play lottery with them, it was not intended for me to gamble but rather to keep me with them.
The first time I gambled on my own was around 2016 when digital roulettes where  a novelty here in my country and they were all around, me and my brother listened some woman giving him advise to her husband what number or "animal" to select on the roulette. My brother and I sent to the closest roulette and gambled on it once.

I had no previous knowledge on gambling, at all.

[xSkylarx]

We all have a different experience how we started our first bet. Their are people who started bet without having any knowledge concerning it. Their are some people started with a help from a friend to bet and their are some who took their time to learn before they started paying bet.

How was your first start? Did you play blindly or spent some time to learn.?

My first bet was in sports betting; I can't remember the website, but it was in 2016 or 2017, when there was an NBA finals, and I bet on the team that Lebron was on. I don't know what the meaning of "odds" is before I just bet on a team and wait for the game to finish. The excitement during the game is truly twice as high as it would be without betting; you are truly enjoying every moment while also becoming increasingly nervous with each quarter. I lost that time, and I don't bet on their next game but it was such a good experience to me.

[skarais]

There is no legal gambling in my country, so it's basically the most hidden habit I've ever gotten into when no one is looking at me. Maybe at first it was out of curiosity, but after that I was addicted and addicted to the point that one day I didn't sleep all night just because I was engrossed in betting.

I've never been proud to tell you how my habit of gambling is, because maybe it's not something I really want. Gambling should have control, it is just a game for fun and not for a source of income.

[usekevin]

The people who had interested in betting of small things will become a gambling person one day.Like wise,I had get into gambling by using the forum.This forum was the source of many gambling people.Because over a years,gambling promotion was take place in the forum.Still I remember my first bet of 10$ with my friend in my school days.He said me he ate 10 pizzas in 20 minutes and he had won the bet also.At my first bet,I had lost over 10$.But I had fun with my friend at my childhood.Like this we should eager to have fun and don’t expect the money from it all the time.

[SOKO-DEKE]

We all have a different experience how we started our first bet. Their are people who started bet without having any knowledge concerning it. Their are some people started with a help from a friend to bet and their are some who took their time to learn before they started paying bet.

How was your first start? Did you play blindly or spent some time to learn.?

My first time gambling was when I went to see a friend at their house. As I entered his room, he offered me several drinks and even asked if I wanted to order any type of food and eat. I was very surprised where he was getting his money from because I've never seen him working and didn't realize he had been fortunate enough to win a bet at that particular time, so I asked him to share the source of his fortune with me. He taught me stake game because that is how he introduced me to one gambling website.

As soon as I arrived home, I was itching to place a bet since I was so anxious to succeed financially like him. So I decided to wager some money on a game, but I was fortunate to win some money without even understanding the purpose of what I staked, so when I played again, I lost. And so I began by asking other gamblers about their winning strategies and that is how i  keep learning. However, I have since stopped gambling because I lost a lot of money doing it.

[Zackgeno96]

For many people that will have been in a casino in the past. Gambling on competitions in sports was almost impossible in the past, because there was no internet back then. Maybe a nice question for the quiz: Who was the first gambling site that made online gambling possible? Would also like to know how it all went with the provision of gambling sites and whether there were all those licenses from Curacao and vde MGA, for example.

[Wiwo]

I started with bookmakers, in 2014, EPL. I did not know much about leagues and tournament in football at the time. I registered on a local gambling site, I went to a fiat ATM machine to fund my betting account. I chose four matches with 2 odd included and I won the accumulated bet. That made me think gambling is easy, not knowing it was the beginning of addiction and losses to come.

Your first experience was better than mine, I lost everything in my first gambling attempt and even lost twice on a roll so I never experience any winning in my first three attempts to gamble, but that was in football betting on like dice was my first attempt I made a substantial winning, so from then I realize that football analysis is not as easy as people make it look, and it is easier said than done that is why we have millions of football fans who will never gamble on predicting what the outcome of a match will be in other to be at a safer side and not losing their money and there will rather watch the match and do analysis for fun and nothing else.

[btc_angela]

We all have a different experience how we started our first bet. Their are people who started bet without having any knowledge concerning it. Their are some people started with a help from a friend to bet and their are some who took their time to learn before they started paying bet.

How was your first start? Did you play blindly or spent some time to learn.?

As far as crypto as betting on sports bookies? nah, I'm more familiar with the handicaps and the parlays in a fiat casino.

But as far as my first experience, I can't recall it anymore, most probably when I was still in high school when some of us will bring cards at school and we secretly played. That's how I recall my first gambling. So there is money involved and perhaps I will say that I'm familiar with many games because of the influence of my family members. We will just play money at home, I mean my mom, aunts, cousins, everyone, just to have some fun but small money at the sideline.

[gantez]

and it is easier said than done that is why we have millions of football fans who will never gamble on predicting what the outcome of a match will be in other to be at a safer side and not losing their money and there will rather watch the match and do analysis for fun and nothing else.

Running away from loses is not only the reason that millions of fans that watching football don't bet on it. They have different reasons . Like most may not bet because of their religion, family restrictions and not only because they are scared to lose. I know many fans of football clubs that don't bet on them but they are fully supporting them and buying some of the products from the club like jersey and more others.

[Jemzx00]

I started with bookmakers, in 2014, EPL. I did not know much about leagues and tournament in football at the time. I registered on a local gambling site, I went to a fiat ATM machine to fund my betting account. I chose four matches with 2 odd included and I won the accumulated bet. That made me think gambling is easy, not knowing it was the beginning of addiction and losses to come.

Your first experience was better than mine, I lost everything in my first gambling attempt and even lost twice on a roll so I never experience any winning in my first three attempts to gamble, but that was in football betting on like dice was my first attempt I made a substantial winning, so from then I realize that football analysis is not as easy as people make it look, and it is easier said than done that is why we have millions of football fans who will never gamble on predicting what the outcome of a match will be in other to be at a safer side and not losing their money and there will rather watch the match and do analysis for fun and nothing else.

His experience is most probably what we call beginner's luck as he got lucky from his first bets. Unfortunately, not all of us experience beginner's luck as most of us lose all of our funds on the first few bets and just continuing gambling as we want to chase what we lose. But still, you were able to experience that luck on other game such as dice which you've won a substantial amount.

[_act_]

Same with mine too. I just did a random betting with a small amount at first, and then when I happened to lose consistently, that’s the time I started gaining knowledge about gambling and develop my own skills particularly in sportsbetting through my various experiences. Although losing is quite inevitable, but there’s always an edge if you know the game well than just go betting along with the crowd.

I gained when I gambled the first time but followed by losses, I won many bets too though but the losses were much more and the net result was a great loss. I too gained experience and I just left gambling for sometimes before I continue to gamble again. It was on one day that I realised that it is hardly possible to make it in gambling, that it should just be for nothing more than risky little amount of money on it. It was luck the first time that I gambled but that is not what gambling is was what I later knew.

[boyptc]

I've got no idea what odds were and there's no online gambling in our place so it's like someone sets up a gambling area where people can go and bet to whoever has set up a sports to watch for.

From small amounts to big amounts but at most times, the people are only betting with small amounts because life back then wasn't that great and we've just got had enough to live for.

It's like an entertainment but just as usual when it's too much, it's addicted.

[blockman]

We all have a different experience how we started our first bet. Their are people who started bet without having any knowledge concerning it. Their are some people started with a help from a friend to bet and their are some who took their time to learn before they started paying bet.

How was your first start? Did you play blindly or spent some time to learn.?

Yes, no idea about gambling before and I just put money. I forgotten the game that I've played for the first time but I just went with the crowd because they're all on it.
The experience of everyone could be that we all made the same mistakes of betting without knowledge but when we lose and then found it as a fun thing, we started to learn about it.

Same with mine too. I just did a random betting with a small amount at first, and then when I happened to lose consistently, that’s the time I started gaining knowledge about gambling and develop my own skills particularly in sportsbetting through my various experiences. Although losing is quite inevitable, but there’s always an edge if you know the game well than just go betting along with the crowd.

With the losses we've made before, that's making us understand what we must do. It's either we continue or just simply stop when it's not working for us at all.
Well, as a beginner, it's unlikely that things will be going to be easy for us as we're still in the process. So, choose the pain that you want, pain from losing money without gaining anything or if you're too persistent, choose money but at the same time have fun and you learn something new.

[redsun114]

Before I started when I was kid, I first observed how other kids play the game. I think card game was my first gambling game. I then ask them to teach me how to play it and then finally I gamble all by myself. Same goes to other games which can only be found on my local.

I think there are no people who do not read the rules or understand how the game is being played before they play gambling because they are also scared of what can happen with their money. If we can't understand how the game is being played then much better if we will just avoid it and move to other games. There are still other more simpler games that will fit on us.

[Sanitough]

As far as I remember, I did a bet with our local basketball match. It's funny because I don't know who are the players was and I have no idea what are their current standing. It was an absolutely blind bet. I remembered that I did that small bet because my friends was pretty hyped with a certain team and they are betting with each other and I myself don't want to get out of place so I bet by random. I won that bet and all the money that me and my friends won from each other were all spent on our foods as we watch the next game of the night. At the end we all are happy and I guess that's were it started on my journey on betting.

I guess that's the most important thing there, we had fun, making profits is just a bonus. For me, the first time i got into gambling was also memorable. I started with all in betting because of my co workers influence. They also go all in betting and so i just follow. And when i lose, i said to myself i'll never gamble again, but i found myself still gambling up to these days, the only difference is that i'm now wiser and quite more knowledgeable compared before.