Topic: At What age did you start gambling? - page 5. (Read 1722 times)

I started gambling at around 16 and honestly it’s one of my biggest regrets. At that age I didn’t even fully understand the risks and only saw the excitement and the potential of winning. I often spent money I didn’t own borrowing from friends or even dipping into savings meant for other things. It was reckless and looking back I see how dangerous it was to dive into gambling without proper knowledge or self control.
Starting so young made it harder to set boundaries later on, and I ended up learning painful lessons the hard way. Hearing about a 12 or 13 year old already losing thousands is heartbreaking because I know how quickly gambling can go out of control, especially when you don’t have the maturity to handle losses or stop yourself, or at least family.

There’s absolutely no benefit to starting gambling at a young age not just in my opinion but logically. Instead it only sets a dangerous precedent for chasing losses, risking more than you can afford and prioritizing gambling over other parts of life like studying or investing your time into your hobbies. If anything it takes away opportunities, money that could been saved or invested besides time that could been spent learning or building a future.

Well, its really good that you spoke to that teenager. I wish someone had done the same for me when I was younger. Conversations like these are important because they might be the wake up call needed to stop before the damage becomes irreversible.

It is curiosity, youth and the eagerness to win that draw children to gambling. Friends will be the ones to lead them into this gambling path. Although they know nothing about gambling and do not want to play, young people still start to rush in the hope of winning. That is called harmony, is friendly with friends.
In short, if teenagers are in a good environment and are positively influenced by their friends, for example by working part-time to gain more experience, they will follow their friends. And if a teenager lives in an environment where all his friends have the bad habits of "gambling, drinking, and smoking", then that teenager will also have to know how to play the games that his friends are playing.


Winning or losing in gambling I think is not important, what is important is that it can kill the future of a minor if they are addicted to gambling.

I can't remember the exact age I'm when I started gambling, but I know very well that I was at tender age when I started gambling, but I was not be afraid of my parents then because of gambling, do you know that many parents doesn't like their children to involve in gambling from tender, but what do we think that made us to develop such instincts of gambling, when we be cage during tender age to avoid gambling, for me, when we get the age to gamble we will gamble and you will not even remember the exact age you were when you involve yourself in the gambling.

There are certainly cases where kids drop out early to supposedly help their families; the truth is that they would be of more help if they stayed in school and acquired an education to switch their lives around in the future. This story, however, either doesn't go in detail or it's a product of imagination. I haven't seen the OP reply again, but this story doesn't add up. Many questions remain unanswered and will probably remain that way. I'm certain that there are cases like these, and unfortunately, with the advance of the internet and smartphones, we'll continue seeing similar examples in today's kids and teenagers.

Younger teenagers are too prone to getting addicted to gambling either by peer pressure or personal addiction.Some of these addictions starts and it's been triggered by poverty or financial insecurity.Gambling is not a good revenue to promote ones Life,but if needs be people will still gamble to make ends meet.Gamble is not a skill at a young age to indulge into;it's quite unsafe.

I don't know if I have responded to a similar topic here before. However, let me be brief on this.

I started gambling during my early 20s i was not opportune to gamble at a very tender age, even if most of my classmates in school were betting online. The case was that I never knew how to gamble, and I was too small to mingle with the big boys in class so that they could teach me how to do it. Really, I do not know how it feels to gamble as a teen. And if I could go back in time, my interest would be to find out if they were actually winning often or losing more. Perhaps they were gambling for fun with the little money they had.


There is no benefit. Gambling is not a career or a professional skill so i don't want to believe that the idea of understanding how to gamble responsibly and avoiding addiction is a benefit to young gamblers.

As far as I remember, I already started gambling when I was still 11-12 years old, during my grade school days. That was when I went to a carnival and saw those tempting prizes so I decided to play. Of course, you have to pay first in order to bet,  little did I know, that was already a form of gambling. It’s a nice feeling if you won, but very frustrating when you lose.

However, to answer the question whether it’s helpful or not to gamble at a young age, I must say gambling in all forms regardless of what age you learn it will never be considered helpful. It’s even harmful instead since you start to believe that gambling can be a source of money, when in reality it will never be capable to help you with your finances.

There's is no benefits of young age gambling, because the boy in question doesn't know his left from right and will end up chasing his losses since he will definitely gamble for profit. Addiction can be the order of the day for him, because he doesn't know that too much of it will make him addicted. However, a young boy of that age cannot manage his finance if he has at all, and wouldn't know his priority but will gamble all he has or win. I started gambling at 13 with my friends but not taking it serious to the point of using big funds for it.

Growing up, I was familiar with gambling, especially card games where we'd bet money and the winner would take it. I understood how it worked: you'd bet on a game, play, win, and take the prize. Luxury and entertainment centers, especially during festive seasons, would offer games where you could win Christmas gifts or other prizes.

Although my dad always frowned upon it, I already knew how gambling worked. Later, with the rise of the internet and online casinos, I'd see sports betting ads on my phone. When I entered college, I started giving gambling a try since I was away from home and had more freedom. I'd spot-bet with friends, especially on sports games.

However, we know that underage gambling is never a good thing. I wouldn't advise anybody to engage in it. As an adult, if you see an underage trying to gamble, whether they're your child or not, you should caution them and try to talk them out of it. If a child starts gambling at a young age, it can hinder their growth, both knowingly and unknowingly.

If I only know gambling, I have known gambling since I was a child, especially card gambling and lottery because this is a common thing and often done by the community, but not in casinos but in small stalls or hangouts. I watched how they gamble and bet, since I was 14 years old, so slowly I began to understand gambling and betting. However, even so, at that time I did not dare to dive into the world of gambling and make bets, because there was still a fear of being scolded by my parents. And after I was 22 years old after I graduated from college and had a job, because I felt I was able to take responsibility for what I did, at that age I just dared to dive into the world of gambling, and make bets.

but is knowing and starting gambling early a profitable thing..? The answer is no, because I have a friend, where he started gambling since he was little, and it turned out that his life was quite miserable, he dropped out of school and had difficulty finding work because he was known as a gambling addict, so no one believed him.

I don't think he stopped gambling but he just stopped getting involved in the lottery game he said and after that he went back to gambling but with new games like slots, so I think maybe until now he is still an active gambler but with different games, and on the other hand it is true that someone should know about what and how gambling really is when he has been involved in it, but I think it's just easy to say because as we see that there are not a few gamblers who have been involved for years in gambling but still do not realize that gambling should not be done with the aim of pursuing victory and that's why most of them experience a slump, so actually regardless of whether you are a beginner or have been involved in gambling for a long time it cannot be used as a benchmark to find out whether the gambler has understood in its entirety about what and how gambling really is.

At least you were lucky enough to be carried along by your dad, who is there to assist you and doesn't allow you to use the wrong route in gambling. You stopped because you didn't just hit the jackpot or because you don't have much money to continue with again?

At least now that you are back to gambling, you should have known better that the game is not the way you were perceiving it to be when gambling is done with the aim of making a big win alone. It comes boring when the person doesn't win at all and only experience loses.

People who hate gambling are often just close-minded and unwilling to take risks. For those of us who gamble, we embrace the possibilities because we understand the risks involved. The problem in the past was probably the high rate of gambling addiction, mainly due to a lack of education.

For example, If you gamble and understand your chances by knowing the house edge, that knowledge alone will give you a guide to make smarter decisions, and you will see gambling for what it is, a form of entertainment only and not a reliable way to make money in the long run....  So, once you know the odds aren’t in your favor, it’s easier to approach it responsibly rather than chasing unrealistic expectations.

I’m not sure if this theory is proven but it’s true in my case. My father is a gambler while my grandfather is a gambler too. My family just balanced the gambling habits because my mother side is from a religious family that condone gambling that’s why we can’t gamble publicly or else my mother will gonna beat us.  

It’s not that we want an easy money rather we are just happy to play and see that bankroll increase even with just a small portion.

It could be just a game that the kid was playing on his father's phone while $weetne$$ can think he is gambling. But if that is not it, I do not think it is a good idea. But some parent may think that their children must learn many things from them. He could probably be using small amount of money for it and teach his children that. If you check some people that are addicted to gambling, there parents may not be addicted at all. Their parents may even not be gambling at all. I do not think it is good but I can not just blame the parent because they may have a good reason which could be that they want their children to learn from them.

I gambled online since I was 16. It was a slot game site with fiat bets. But for the gambling that I usually do with my friends, I probably did it at the age of 14. It's like a dice or card game with friends that I do directly on the spot. The bets can be money or cigarettes. I think young people in rural areas often gamble like that. Until now, sometimes when I have time to hang out with friends, I still do it often. I haven't visited a slot game site or other gambling for a long time. After a long time, I finally preferred sports betting which I got from my friend's information. Until now, I prefer sports betting to casino games.

I’m not sure if this topic has been brought up before but IIRC I think I was around 10 years old when I first got into gambling.... It all started because of family influence thats why I'm  being exposed to it at such a young age. And you know as I grew older, my curiosity expanded to different types of gambling, and eventually, I got hooked on online gambling, especially sports betting.

As a gambler, I’ve been through some rough times, emotional struggles that left their mark. But I’m proud to say I’ve overcome those experiences. Now, I consider myself a mature gambler. Of course just like an ordinary gambler, I still make mistakes here and there, but I’m confident I’ve learned enough not to repeat the same ones from the past.

Well I started somewhat in a young age considered the years I started in the 2000 millenium years, I started in the age of 18. In my country at that time only lotto clubs and sport betting, small sport betting companies were available before after the 2000-s they expanded wildly even in the online business. It is exactly there in the online time in 2002 and above that I started playing regularly and I kept spending a lot of money in sport betting, slots were not that popular at that time, at least where I was located, they become popular in 2005 and up and since then I was hooked into them up to nowadays, I have only quit playing them in just a month or two yet not completely. Gambling though does not care about age it is something that is deep in our DNA, the desire for money and power and gambling many people consider as a shortcut to it.

In my country, there are also children who are just teenagers and have to drop out of school to work because their families are too poor, and education is a luxury for them . So I don't doubt it but I have the same question as you, where would a 14 year old and unemployed get such a large amount of money to gamble? Also, for a kid who is not fully educated and unemployed, is it possible to know about cryptocurrencies and gamble full time with cryptocurrencies ? Not to mention, owning crypto assets requires a bank account to trade, but 14 years old is not old enough to open a bank account .

If he gambles offline then that would be more realistic because I have seen such kids too but I rarely see them gambling online because they are under 18 and don't have bank accounts.

Aside from 14 years old guy spent $8K, as he claimed to use crypto, my question is how he can bought crypto? most of centralized exchanges always ask KYC, a 14 years old guy will not able to complete KYC verification. The story sounds bizarre IMO.

Lol that's the reality.

I was also gamble in my childhood, playing card and stake money. At first I didn't know if it was gambling, but as I grew up older, now I know that it's gambling.

The good thing that I didn't get addicted.