How long have you been a gambler.

[bayu7adi]

Since high school in 2015/2016... but I was inactive from gambling during covid, where at that time I was really more worried about my health than money...

For now, maybe the intensity of my gambling is not as dense as my friends here, because I only bet on football matches, especially the English league and the champions league...

Knowing gambling for almost 10 years really didn't have a significant impact on me, maybe because I didn't get to the point of addiction.. thankfully my finances were not that affected by the gambling.

[electronicash]

so you have not been addicted to gambling yet?

Honestly am not addicted and have never to told once to take heed as sign for addiction.

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been a gambler since 10. maybe even less than 10. the gamblers in our country are exposing kids to also be interested in gambling since fathers are just gambling outside the house. the beauty of getting into gambling at early age is that you never get addicted to it anymore. we are over with it during out early lives. 

Really, this is interesting, but also a pathetic one because you're gambling at underage stage and I wonder how you manage to gamble, were do you source your money from, I hope it's not what am thinking... stealing from dad and mom savings in the house.
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not really. gambling has its seasons in a year. its not that gambling is gonna go that way the whole year, there's time in a year where kids play marbles. next few months we just ride bikes and the next week, we are all up early in the morning to find spiders and let the spiders fight like roosters.

its all just for fun when youre a kid and sometimes gambling only happens in the backyard of the school while wagering guava fruit.

[Rubel007]

I never thought I would gamble, but I was inspired by watching some of my friends gamble. I gambled for a long time, but at some point I realized that I was becoming addicted to gambling, which is why I tried to divert myself. I like sports betting, I enjoy sports because I bet a little money there, but even though I wanted to make money, I did not consider gambling as a source of income.

[0t3p0t]

Influence play a great role in the life of people especially gambling because when the people around you are all gambling the tendency of you gambling too will be high because when people around you are all doing a thing you are attracted to it too and over time you will see your self gambling, this is the reason why there should be a level of discipline in any thing that you are doing especially things like gambling because of the little children who are around you and are looking up to you because of fact the matter is that children learn from things that they see and hear around them

Well yeah exactly. Kids minds are fresh and young easy to absorb things that is around us and unfortunately gambling was one of them. Most of the time kids gamble with emotions as they don't know how to control it or deal with it. That is why online gambling ads nowadays especially in social medias is quite alarming and will bevome a threat to the audience regardless of ages.

[Cryptsafe]

I don't remember when I first got to know gambling, but what I do remember is after leaving school. Maybe if I only knew it when I was in school, I would have known about gambling, but to start playing it was after graduating from school.

We all must have different stories when we first got to know and started gambling. And I think it is more influenced by the environment.

I remember my first bet back then in my secondary school days when AC Milan won their Champions League Cup with Gattuso scoring the winning goal. I still can remember the event as I won it then. It was a memorable moment for me because I needed the money for some things I had to bet and it came just at the appropriate time and it happened to be my first bet ever. Actually, my friend made me do it and secondly, I needed urgent money to sort out things and there it happened just like a dream that I won it. Although I had clues about both teams but it was a bit difficult because they are both strong teams contending for the trophy. It just happened that way but all I know is that I got the money I was looking for to sort out things for myself.

[Igebotz]

I never thought I would gamble, but I was inspired by watching some of my friends gamble. I gambled for a long time, but at some point I realized that I was becoming addicted to gambling, which is why I tried to divert myself. I like sports betting, I enjoy sports because I bet a little money there, but even though I wanted to make money, I did not consider gambling as a source of income.

Most gamblers were motivated to gamble by their peers and random gambling success stories. When people hear about other people's winnings, they have an inner desire to be lucky, and such a gambler begins gambling in any way possible in order to be that lucky, and if such a person is new to gambling, the likelihood that he will gamble to addiction is high.

In general, when people focus on the positive aspects of a situation while ignoring the negative aspects, they are more likely to experience the negative. This also applies to gambling. 

[$crypto$]

I don't remember when I first got to know gambling, but what I do remember is after leaving school. Maybe if I only knew it when I was in school, I would have known about gambling, but to start playing it was after graduating from school.

We all must have different stories when we first got to know and started gambling. And I think it is more influenced by the environment.

I remember my first bet back then in my secondary school days when AC Milan won their Champions League Cup with Gattuso scoring the winning goal. I still can remember the event as I won it then. It was a memorable moment for me because I needed the money for some things I had to bet and it came just at the appropriate time and it happened to be my first bet ever. Actually, my friend made me do it and secondly, I needed urgent money to sort out things and there it happened just like a dream that I won it. Although I had clues about both teams but it was a bit difficult because they are both strong teams contending for the trophy. It just happened that way but all I know is that I got the money I was looking for to sort out things for myself.

Yes, maybe most of us start gambling by betting on football and without realizing it, I actually did it a long time ago, but that was with my friend.

Yes, usually we bet on a pack of cigarettes and food, although in the end the loser still enjoys the cigarettes that were bet and snacks. But that is a story that is never forgotten.

[pieppiep]

I never thought I would gamble, but I was inspired by watching some of my friends gamble. I gambled for a long time, but at some point I realized that I was becoming addicted to gambling, which is why I tried to divert myself. I like sports betting, I enjoy sports because I bet a little money there, but even though I wanted to make money, I did not consider gambling as a source of income.

Most gamblers were motivated to gamble by their peers and random gambling success stories. When people hear about other people's winnings, they have an inner desire to be lucky, and such a gambler begins gambling in any way possible in order to be that lucky, and if such a person is new to gambling, the likelihood that he will gamble to addiction is high.

In general, when people focus on the positive aspects of a situation while ignoring the negative aspects, they are more likely to experience the negative. This also applies to gambling.

Hearing success storeys of others can actually trigger the drive especially when such are from individuals close to us. This especially applies to the game, where participants are eager to feel similar luck and fantastic winnings, although the only realistic outcome is the chance of at least some positive outcome. While focusing on the part of the business that brings profits without factoring in loss less, one can easily develop negativity that is hard to change. Because the more often and uncontrollably races for the victory regardless of the limits, the tighter is the person webs himself or herself into a sick mental state. Thus, knowledge of the fact that every action has its consequences contributes to avoiding being swayed only by storeys about certain success for a short period of time and the repetition of the results.

[Cryptsafe]

I don't remember when I first got to know gambling, but what I do remember is after leaving school. Maybe if I only knew it when I was in school, I would have known about gambling, but to start playing it was after graduating from school.

We all must have different stories when we first got to know and started gambling. And I think it is more influenced by the environment.

I remember my first bet back then in my secondary school days when AC Milan won their Champions League Cup with Gattuso scoring the winning goal. I still can remember the event as I won it then. It was a memorable moment for me because I needed the money for some things I had to bet and it came just at the appropriate time and it happened to be my first bet ever. Actually, my friend made me do it and secondly, I needed urgent money to sort out things and there it happened just like a dream that I won it. Although I had clues about both teams but it was a bit difficult because they are both strong teams contending for the trophy. It just happened that way but all I know is that I got the money I was looking for to sort out things for myself.

Yes, maybe most of us start gambling by betting on football and without realizing it, I actually did it a long time ago, but that was with my friend.

Yes, usually we bet on a pack of cigarettes and food, although in the end the loser still enjoys the cigarettes that were bet and snacks. But that is a story that is never forgotten.

Experience of this nature are memorable events that could not be easily erased from the memory that easy as it was first encounter and it was worth the try at that moment.
Sometimes it is all about the fun involved just like you and your friends bet foods cigarettes to keep the vibes going while you gamble. These are the reasons why gambling is fun and also why gamblers are advised to gamble for fun.
If only gamblers could see this, then it could just be this way of having fun while gambling.

[Rruchi man]

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Been gambling long enough to know the dangers and risks involved in trading. I have also gambled long enough to know that there should come a time when you need to take a break from gambling to avoid becoming an addicted gambler.

Gamblers who have gambled more have some experience and know some more lessons than new gamblers based on the experience they've amassed over the years.

[salad daging]

Gambling has been a long time, it's just that often gambling is about 3 years more since being in the casino forum many casinos so until now still gambling.

The impact on our lives? Economically it is not disturbed because it has arranged in such a way that gambling is a small percentage of monthly income, so it has never been destroyed or spent 1 month of income for gambling.

So it can be said that until now gambling is still healthy in the sense that it does not exceed capacity.

[Baofeng]

The title of this thread said it all, this is a question to engage us all in a discussion about how it l started that we begin to gamble and turned a gambler, when and how does this took effect in our life, let's try to make it on topic with quality contributions.

I've been gambling since my early university days, this began through the influence of a friend and ever since then, I discover the gambler in me is just about to manifest, before realizing then a turned a gambler, but from my childhood days, I never have interest in gambling.

I can't remember when I started gambling, one thing though is that I started to gamble in the streets. And also there is this influence of my father who is a horse racing afficionados. So when I do grow up, I do bet on horse racing and then basketball and then boxing.

In the last 15 years or so, I have been in land base casinos playing in the big 3 casinos in our country.

Last 5 years is online and it goes rampant in the last 2 years specially when I involved myself in crypto.

[libert19]

Well, I did my first sports bet in 2013 during directbet days, since then I continue to gamble here and there and this doesn't affect my life whatsoever.

[$crypto$]

Yes, maybe most of us start gambling by betting on football and without realizing it, I actually did it a long time ago, but that was with my friend.

Yes, usually we bet on a pack of cigarettes and food, although in the end the loser still enjoys the cigarettes that were bet and snacks. But that is a story that is never forgotten.

Experience of this nature are memorable events that could not be easily erased from the memory that easy as it was first encounter and it was worth the try at that moment.
Sometimes it is all about the fun involved just like you and your friends bet foods cigarettes to keep the vibes going while you gamble. These are the reasons why gambling is fun and also why gamblers are advised to gamble for fun.
If only gamblers could see this, then it could just be this way of having fun while gambling.

In addition, we also make victory and defeat as a joke when chatting, but interestingly, none of us get angry because from the beginning it was also for fun.

This is an atmosphere that may not happen again when we are old and it will only be a topic of conversation with our friends. This can also make our friendship even closer, unlike friends who borrow money. 

[Cryptsafe]

Yes, maybe most of us start gambling by betting on football and without realizing it, I actually did it a long time ago, but that was with my friend.

Yes, usually we bet on a pack of cigarettes and food, although in the end the loser still enjoys the cigarettes that were bet and snacks. But that is a story that is never forgotten.

Experience of this nature are memorable events that could not be easily erased from the memory that easy as it was first encounter and it was worth the try at that moment.
Sometimes it is all about the fun involved just like you and your friends bet foods cigarettes to keep the vibes going while you gamble. These are the reasons why gambling is fun and also why gamblers are advised to gamble for fun.
If only gamblers could see this, then it could just be this way of having fun while gambling.

In addition, we also make victory and defeat as a joke when chatting, but interestingly, none of us get angry because from the beginning it was also for fun.

This is an atmosphere that may not happen again when we are old and it will only be a topic of conversation with our friends. This can also make our friendship even closer, unlike friends who borrow money. 

I had that experience too where we were discussing the bet occurrence we just had and all of a sudden argument began amongst us but all was just for fun and after everything, we would laugh over it and it would slide just like that and life goes on. All these events with friends are a kind of memorable moment that would hardly be forgotten in one's memory as long as they are alive. In old age, they sit sometimes and discuss things like this and they laugh over it throwing jabs at each other.