How my gambling life started.

[klidex]

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.

[traderethereum]

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.

[Poker Player]

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.

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.

[Dewi Aries]

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.

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.

[retreat]

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.

[Natsuu]

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.

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

[SeaCoinCollector.]

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.

[Gozie51]

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.

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.

[piebeyb]

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.

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.

[Z390]

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.
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.

[Lannakosa]

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.

[arwin100]

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!

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.

[Makus]

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.

[TopTort777]

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. 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.

[Blitzboy]

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!

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.

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.

[AirtelBuzz]

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.

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.

[LUCKMCFLY]

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.

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.

[yazher]

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.

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.

[slapper]

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.
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.

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.

[STT]

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.