How my gambling life started.

[TheUltraElite]

I wasn't really a gambler before; I was just jealous of my friend who often wins; he doesn't even gamble every day. It seems like in a month he only wins 2-3 times gambling,
which if I count the ones he won playing for 500-1000 dollars, the amount of his winning price ranges.

These type of encounters are common and are the usual events that lead up to people getting addicted to gambling. As long as you control that emotion of jealousy and pride and are able to control the greed it will not harm you, because you will only be playing for fun and not playing to make money. The second point is the thing that drives people to gamble - easy money. But it is not so for the players than it is for the casinos.

It might be worth experimenting to check what your friend feels about gambling today.

[348Judah]

I wasn't really a gambler before; I was just jealous of my friend who often wins; he doesn't even gamble every day. It seems like in a month he only wins 2-3 times gambling,
which if I count the ones he won playing for 500-1000 dollars, the amount of his winning price ranges.

These type of encounters are common and are the usual events that lead up to people getting addicted to gambling. As long as you control that emotion of jealousy and pride and are able to control the greed it will not harm you, because you will only be playing for fun and not playing to make money. The second point is the thing that drives people to gamble - easy money. But it is not so for the players than it is for the casinos.

It might be worth experimenting to check what your friend feels about gambling today.

Its common as you have said since we are humans and can often develop a jealous kind of nature towards each other, most especially when others are having more upper edge over us in gambling, that is why to an extent, i will prefer making such with an outsider or friend than a family member, because i won't allow gambling to be the determining factor to how we are going to relate well or not with some of the family members, pride and jealousy will affect us both.

[usekevin]

These type of encounters are common and are the usual events that lead up to people getting addicted to gambling. As long as you control that emotion of jealousy and pride and are able to control the greed it will not harm you, because you will only be playing for fun and not playing to make money. The second point is the thing that drives people to gamble - easy money. But it is not so for the players than it is for the casinos.

It might be worth experimenting to check what your friend feels about gambling today.

The gambler who play the random betting will loss the game money,it may leads to the loss of money in the gambling site.The gambler who control the greedy and the emotional decision in the game will able to play the safe game in the gambling site.The greedy in the gambling will always affect the players,because after some profit was raised by the player.The greedy will make the player to play further till he manage the money which is essential for all his financial problems.

But trying to solve all the financial problems in one game is not the wise one,instead the gamblers can use the profit to shot out some of the financial problems.So he can use the next game to increase their profit,many games in the gambling site will help the gamblers to manage the big profits with the gambling.The casino in the gambling site based on predictions and had a way to loss on wrong prediction.

[Z_MBFM]

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.

There are many people who can earn profit from various gambling games but they are never greedy.  If greed is at work in gambling, no matter how much you win, you will think that if you continue to gamble, you will probably win more and continue to gamble to lose all the money.  However, gambling can be a very good experience for some and a very bad experience for others.  But one thing everyone should always keep in mind is that he will not have a bad experience in gambling only when he bets the amount he can afford to lose.

[Dewi Aries]

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.

There are many people who can earn profit from various gambling games but they are never greedy.  If greed is at work in gambling, no matter how much you win, you will think that if you continue to gamble, you will probably win more and continue to gamble to lose all the money.  However, gambling can be a very good experience for some and a very bad experience for others.  But one thing everyone should always keep in mind is that he will not have a bad experience in gambling only when he bets the amount he can afford to lose.

Exactly, it means that everyone can get a big win when they have very good luck but in the end it won't mean anything if you can't ignore the greed in you, because after all as you said above that in the end all the winning amount will be lost very quickly when someone applies greed, On the other hand I understand that greed won't always lead you to a disappointing end result but overall it's usually the case that most gamblers experience losing all the amount they've won before because after all it's gambling so the percentage of losses is usually higher than wins. However, greed is not a good thing in any case, especially when it comes to gambling where winning only depends on luck. Therefore, this is the reason why we are always advised to take prudent actions such as cashing out when you get your first win rather than chasing something bigger but there is no certainty that can guarantee victory.

[decodx]

I wasn't really a gambler before; I was just jealous of my friend who often wins; he doesn't even gamble every day. It seems like in a month he only wins 2-3 times gambling,
which if I count the ones he won playing for 500-1000 dollars, the amount of his winning price ranges.

These type of encounters are common and are the usual events that lead up to people getting addicted to gambling. As long as you control that emotion of jealousy and pride and are able to control the greed it will not harm you, because you will only be playing for fun and not playing to make money. The second point is the thing that drives people to gamble - easy money. But it is not so for the players than it is for the casinos.

It might be worth experimenting to check what your friend feels about gambling today.

Its common as you have said since we are humans and can often develop a jealous kind of nature towards each other, most especially when others are having more upper edge over us in gambling, that is why to an extent, i will prefer making such with an outsider or friend than a family member, because i won't allow gambling to be the determining factor to how we are going to relate well or not with some of the family members, pride and jealousy will affect us both.

I agree about the jealousy thing when it comes to your friend's gambling wins.  It's tough to see him celebrating these big payouts and have the thought hey, why not me too? But the thing is - you only see those wins he decides to show off, not the heaps of losses that stay behind the scenes.  Its kind of like social media in a way.  Folks post snaps from their beach vacations and five-star restaurants, but you don't see the mounds of dirty clothes waiting at home or those days at the office that just drag on.  Same idea with your buddy's betting habits.  He might be hyping up a few solid wins but trust me, there's a whole lot of painful reality that hes not putting on display.

[Accardo]

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.

There are many people who can earn profit from various gambling games but they are never greedy.  If greed is at work in gambling, no matter how much you win, you will think that if you continue to gamble, you will probably win more and continue to gamble to lose all the money.  However, gambling can be a very good experience for some and a very bad experience for others.  But one thing everyone should always keep in mind is that he will not have a bad experience in gambling only when he bets the amount he can afford to lose.

It always felt bad as a kid to lose money after a bet with friends or family. Most gamblers today may have gambled at a young age and didn't get along with the way their pocket money gets finished quickly. I don't remember going after more money in competitive board games in those days. However, it was interesting to participate in game with friends without expecting any money. The fun worths it, other than the argument that may erupt just like Op mentioned in his last lines. These personal challenging encounters affects some gamblers to play recklessly.  However, a gambler that's conscious of his expenses and manage his money proficiently he wouldn't have a hard time with gambling.

Getting too attached to gambling is not recommendable. But a player who is moderately engaging in the game, expecting to win, but not desperate to win, will enjoy his game. Compared to players who wants those wins at every cost. That's rough for their finances. Greed also plays a vital role in derailing the good habit of most gamblers. I hardly have experienced a time I felt comfortable with the amount of money in the bankroll. Always wanted more, but with the few limitations the involuntary greedy behaviors gets monitored not to land me into trouble. Similarly, many other players feel the need for more money and endless engage in gambling routine that will cause them problems.

[Asuspawer09]

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!

Probably we all have experiences as a kid on friendly games, where we just want to have a little thrill and make it more fun, I mean it was pretty common for sure if you just played for nothing, it wouldn't make you play serious in some situation since you don't really have anything to lose at some point, even though you lose the game then you lose that just how it works right, you didn't really have to lose anything on that probably just pride, but it was still normal to lose sometime. Putting some kind of bet on this is going to make it more fun and serious for sure since it would include reward, or most of the time money betting, I usually do this on basketball games, which is pretty common when I'm still high school for sure for quick money if you're a good basketball player, you could easily make quick money, as well as you just wanted to just play as well since just scoring, shooting, running etc. is already fun. I would say that its probably where I stated to start gambling as well, and probably if you are familiar with carnival which is pretty popular here in my country I was really addicted to those carnival games.

[Ojinga]

My gambling life something I don't even know how it started lol, but eventually I can remember it. First my teenager years I was so in love with anything concerning football, I was so focused on it and develope a feeling of playing football everyday of my life at school i always came back home late cause I was playing football. It started all those times but I've no clue about betting online but we do bet at the field while playing football.

 We continue gambling and playing I started tasting how gambling winning is whenever we win. But my mom was very angry at me cause I was coming back home late hours, with the gambling money at school I started doing some savings with the it and I got my self a cellphone. Before my mom stopped me of playing football and coming back late hours from school, then I started with PlayStation video games. Some days I don't even go to school me and my friends we just branch at the PlayStation shop.

We'll kill all the times there not even thinking of going to class then I was in my o level at school, we gamble everyday non stopping i lose and some days i win my mon and dad  usually give me money everyday. And whenever i noticed that today I'm going to need extra money I most find a lie just to take more money from them, my friend's will be waiting for me at the PlayStation shop back then their parents was richer than mine.

Somedays I'll decide to go to school cause some of my teachers that likes seeing me in class have noticed my disappearance, what they do is to call my mom for not seeing me at class for some days then we discovered another strategies. We go to school in the morning write our names on the attendance list then leave to the shop we continued this not until our school principal cought us at the PlayStation shop one morning and reported us to our parents, they've to change my school.

Then I quitted for some years before entering to my high school, this was the level that no one can control me any more I continue with the PlayStation video games first before discovering the online betting sites. Here was non stop my parents were sending me mone, I was so addicted into gambling myself I noticed that I'm taking this too far it might affect my study's then i stopped the PlayStation video games. Continued with only the online gambling.

My parents they knew that the spirit of gambling was still inside of me cause whenever they send me money it won't take up to a week before it got exhausted. I tried quitting but no way my mom continued praying for me before I graduated from my high school life. Now I got work still gambling, for me I gambled even more now then the online bet makes everything easier for me now. I also do gamble on cryptocurrency betting sites as well, so my gambling lifestyle was incredible if wasn't for God and for the prayers of my mom, I don't think I could've made it to where I'm now.

[irhact]

Probably we all have experiences as a kid on friendly games, where we just want to have a little thrill and make it more fun, I mean it was pretty common for sure if you just played for nothing, it wouldn't make you play serious in some situation since you don't really have anything to lose at some point, even though you lose the game then you lose that just how it works right, you didn't really have to lose anything on that probably just pride, but it was still normal to lose sometime.

As a teenager i had similar experience with some friends, but then since most of us where not working or bold enough to stake their pocket money on card games we do stake our snacks or any other meal and the winner takes it all, it used to be very fun until some guys kept losing and couldn't take it anymore then it lead to a fight and we had to stop cause it got the attention of our parents.

 Most people are not able to control their emotions when they lose in gambling, well it's normal to be emotional as a human but before one could go into gambling you'll have to kill your emotions cause you'll definitely secure lose in gambling and if you're an individual who got into gambling without a good skill and strategy then you might encounter a lot of losing streaks before you finally make profits when you've learnt.

[Pandu Geddon]

As a teenager i had similar experience with some friends, but then since most of us where not working or bold enough to stake their pocket money on card games we do stake our snacks or any other meal and the winner takes it all, it used to be very fun until some guys kept losing and couldn't take it anymore then it lead to a fight and we had to stop cause it got the attention of our parents.

 Most people are not able to control their emotions when they lose in gambling, well it's normal to be emotional as a human but before one could go into gambling you'll have to kill your emotions cause you'll definitely secure lose in gambling and if you're an individual who got into gambling without a good skill and strategy then you might encounter a lot of losing streaks before you finally make profits when you've learnt.

Yes, anything can be maintained even if it's just the snacks we have. When watching a football match with my friends, I also usually make bets on cigarettes.
in such bets, I think it is not too serious to hope to win or lose so that it leads us to a fight. especially with our friends, it's unreasonable to lose control like that. unless you are drunk.
Emotional control is very important for those who play in casinos. You have to know when to continue playing or when to leave the game. You have power over your finances. So don't waste your savings on the game.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

As a teenager i had similar experience with some friends, but then since most of us where not working or bold enough to stake their pocket money on card games we do stake our snacks or any other meal and the winner takes it all, it used to be very fun until some guys kept losing and couldn't take it anymore then it lead to a fight and we had to stop cause it got the attention of our parents.

 Most people are not able to control their emotions when they lose in gambling, well it's normal to be emotional as a human but before one could go into gambling you'll have to kill your emotions cause you'll definitely secure lose in gambling and if you're an individual who got into gambling without a good skill and strategy then you might encounter a lot of losing streaks before you finally make profits when you've learnt.

Yes, anything can be maintained even if it's just the snacks we have. When watching a football match with my friends, I also usually make bets on cigarettes.
in such bets, I think it is not too serious to hope to win or lose so that it leads us to a fight. especially with our friends, it's unreasonable to lose control like that. unless you are drunk.
Emotional control is very important for those who play in casinos. You have to know when to continue playing or when to leave the game. You have power over your finances. So don't waste your savings on the game.

I think the best way to say this is, if you know you can't help it but loose your temper when you lose multiple times, then you shouldn't be gambling in the first place, though personally, I understand that it can be hard, really hard to lose your food or snacks, over and over again, losing your food to friends in gambling simply means you will have to stay hungry until the next meal time, and that can be really hard and frustrating for many, so the best is to avoid playing games where you have to stake your food and snacks - this goes out to this reading who still engage in such things as betting on the outcome of sports matches with their good.

And personally, I feel that losing money to gambling is way easier to bear than losing ones food, because for many, it's better to lose money and end up with an empty pocket while their stomach is filled up, than be with an empty pocket and as well lose your food as well, which means, you have to go hungry, even with no dime in the pocket.

[Su-asa]

I wasn't really a gambler before; I was just jealous of my friend who often wins; he doesn't even gamble every day. It seems like in a month he only wins 2-3 times gambling,
which if I count the ones he won playing for 500-1000 dollars, the amount of his winning price ranges.

These type of encounters are common and are the usual events that lead up to people getting addicted to gambling. As long as you control that emotion of jealousy and pride and are able to control the greed it will not harm you, because you will only be playing for fun and not playing to make money. The second point is the thing that drives people to gamble - easy money. But it is not so for the players than it is for the casinos.

It might be worth experimenting to check what your friend feels about gambling today.

Yes, I get the point, ones someone is increasing their stake he is gradually becoming addicted, at the first time gambling, he will not have any problems with the games, only what he wants is to win. As the gambler is winning 5 hands in 10 he won't complain. To my own obsession, I think it's only if a gambler is winning more than he's losing it will make the gambler to wager higher than what he has been staking. Well it's quite obvious that some gamblers feels jealous when their fellow gambler or their friends is winning more than them, and such attitudes will also make the gambler to lose more.

[danherbias07]

Yes, I get the point, ones someone is increasing their stake he is gradually becoming addicted, at the first time gambling, he will not have any problems with the games, only what he wants is to win. As the gambler is winning 5 hands in 10 he won't complain. To my own obsession, I think it's only if a gambler is winning more than he's losing it will make the gambler to wager higher than what he has been staking. Well it's quite obvious that some gamblers feels jealous when their fellow gambler or their friends is winning more than them, and such attitudes will also make the gambler to lose more.

I think this is the reason why other gamblers don't like the winners sharing their tickets. They don't want to be jealous of it and then end up betting the same way as the winner did. Well, it's all up to us and as a responsible gambler, I don't we have to envy those who win big amounts. Let's also think about how much they risked when they did that and how afraid they are to lose that kind of money. Also, we should also consider the amount they wasted before hitting a high amount multiplier. It's not like it can be done in just one bet, that's rare to happen.
IMO, I like people who would share their winning tickets because that proves that it can really happen to anyone and not just the streamers who are faking their happiness just because it is meant for advertisements. Different winners can prove that it is real.

[Zigabel]

Its common as you have said since we are humans and can often develop a jealous kind of nature towards each other, most especially when others are having more upper edge over us in gambling, that is why to an extent, i will prefer making such with an outsider or friend than a family member, because i won't allow gambling to be the determining factor to how we are going to relate well or not with some of the family members, pride and jealousy will affect us both.

Allowing your gambling habit come in between you and your family is a problem on its own because its definitely not going to make sense in the tail end of your activities but then if you are really mindful how it will affect you and your relationship with both family and friends, I think you will get to, maintain a better gambling habit than you would normally because if you are having issues with family due to your gambling habit you are going to have a disturbed mind and may at times not be able to concentrate and gamble better and your results are definitely going to be affected.

Gambling with outsiders probably friends too you still need to apply some caution because even all that which you have mentioned can possibly get to come in between you people too if not properly handled too aswell so which ever it is just make sure to be mindful of your relationship with others how it's been affected.

[Smartvirus]

Your experience is not unique. I think majority of gamblers started that way. If not card games then some coinflips. The whole point is that the exposure started with people whom you know personally from childhood to your student days and then your adult life.

You’re right, it’s not a unique situation as most persons unconsciously started gambling with this method. The games might be different but, followed similar pathway to getting introduced into the game. Next, a gambling habit develops.

Gambling though existed prior to your time, this I’m certain of. Right from the BC and AD, gambling have surfaced, been regulated and even taxed. It’s only recently taken a different fold due to the innovations of our time, despite how it’s differently regarded by persons of different culture and popular beliefs, gambling has been with us still.

Now that we eventually realize the inherent activity we’ve been involved in from an early stage, we have to develop a means of control on how it impacts us else, we would be lost.

[ethereumhunter]

I can't deny that my beginnings as a player were very hard, I lost too much, at one point I had to control myself and I did everything possible for that, but I couldn't always, my results were very disastrous, I can't say that I was doing badly all the time. No, because sometimes I did win, and I had a good balance, but suddenly I applied the martingale strategy and then I lost everything, in fact I lost everything like 3 times, and I finally understood something, I did try to control my emotions because I couldn't have a Good experience, I tried to find strategies to control my emotions but it didn't work for me.

After all this I began to do the same trading strategy and gave free rein to my emotions, that was the only way to be able to play with control and without decapitalizing myself, and the strategy is to control the money I put in the casino, if I put it 20usd that was the only thing that was Profitable and no more.

That's normal if you lose much money in the beginning you playing gambling and knows gambling. Usually, beginners don't have good self control but if they can learns about self control, they will not lose much money like before because they can control how much money they can use to playing gambling. It's good if you can trying to control yourself every time you playing gambling because that can makes you becomes responsible with your gambling activity. With always practicing your self control, you will not have to face a problems in gambling even you can enjoy your gambling activity as a fun things in your free time so you can relax by playing gambling.

Emotion can becomes bigger if we can't control but if we can learn and practice controlling emotion, we will have a chance to take care of ourselves. We don't have to use much money to playing gambling instead just use enough money to playing gambling. We knows that we must playing gambling moderately to avoids big lose.

[GideonGono]

Your experience is not unique. I think majority of gamblers started that way. If not card games then some coinflips. The whole point is that the exposure started with people whom you know personally from childhood to your student days and then your adult life.

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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.

I also witnessed some feud that happened among family members. It usually starts when the total bet placed on the table is less than what was expected then accusations starts.

I agree I think most of us started our gambling life on our early childhood, we used to play games with bets even though we don't see it as gambling back then because there is no money involve only cards or other toys.
But looking back it is where it all started, our gambling journey betting or whatever we want to call it, back then it was just a simple games as a child but it was the start of our gambling journey, we just grew up from betting or risking collection cards or other sorts of toys into gambling with actual money.
Looking back at it, I only grew a little bit from how I play back then I only stop when I don't have anymore cards to bet.

[Shamm]

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!

out of our curiosity we are trying what we saw. Especially in gambling once we have already a good amount of money then we saw our friends playing gambler using cards then our of our curiosity we will try and use our money as a bankroll. And that's how mostly gamblers starts. Anyways it's up to us if e gonna control ourselves or not in gambling cause if we can't control ourselves the one thing for sure. We gonna have a chance that become snd addict in gambling.

[Cryptoprincess101]

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Normally gambling Starts from little stakes then as time goes most gamblers begins to increase their stakes more especially when they had a little win previously so they will think that had it been they increased their stakes that they would have won huge and most of the time, gamblers with higher stakes losses more despite that their risk is also less sometimes.

In the old days this card game you made mention of was the gambling that was trending as at that time and people were not too informed about other form of gambling except those who play RSK pools those days and treble chances so this card game were mostly played by young men and despite that some stakes are being set but they do it for fun though there are times when disagreements erupts from the game due to some misunderstanding but afterwards they will still settle and continue but all thanks to modern day gambling because had it been the physical gambling methods still conquers till now there would have been some kind of bad situations due to physical violence that may come out from a misunderstanding among players.