How my gambling life started.

[Zoomic]

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.

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.

[aioc]

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!

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.

[YOSHIE]

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

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.

[Westinhome]

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.

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.

[EluguHcman]

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. 

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.

[KTChampions]

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.

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.

[passwordnow]

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.

[JoyMarsha]

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.

[TopTort777]

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” 

[traderethereum]

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.

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.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

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.

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

[tbterryboy]

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.

[nimogsm]

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” 

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.

[Mauser]

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!

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.

[348Judah]

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!

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.

[irhact]

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.

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.

[South Park]

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!

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.

[Casalania]

/ 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.

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.

[Queentoshi]

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.

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.

[Quidat]

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.

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.