Topic: Changed the game you gamble on? share your story. - page 5. (Read 1577 times)

I suppose that I started off with dice games but at some point felt like I needed more variety in my gambling so I tried card games like Blackjack and poker. I usually tend to get bored over time so I like to switch games around. But I have stopped inside a particular circle and I very rarely bet anymore on sports games because it never really was my kind of betting in the first place. Right now its mostly cards.

But you know, likes and dislikes change all the time...

I stopped virtual games and continued with bookings, like placing bets on games that play 90 mins and not those that play less than 1 minute and drain funds mercilessly. My decision to stop virtual games was a very rewarding one as I now spent less time  on betting platforms and got more useful to myself, learned a skill and behaved more responsibly ever since. It was a major weak point which I took great effort to overcome and I reap the rewards till date. I'm still an active gambler, but virtual betting has been ruled out permanently.

And if you have often played that gambling game, you will probably keep returning to that gambling game even if you move to another gambling game. You have liked the gambling game before and have only moved to another game for a while because other factors might make you want to experience gambling in another game. And if the routine continues, you will still return to that gambling game after you finish playing other gambling games.

That's true, when you've become addicted on it and you do it as a routine, that's how it goes when you're into these games and the gambling becomes so intense to the point that you're able to do such on it. When you've been dwelling on it for a very long time, that activity becomes a normal thing and you don't even complain because that's the new normal for you. No reminders will be remembered by that time if there will be folks trying to remind you to control.

That's it, the routine was already there and it's part already of your circulation. Yes, you can move from doing other games but up to each gambler. But if it's already part of your system, you're likely to stay on it and you're gonna like it more.

It depends on each person. If they already have a routine of playing gambling in certain gambling games, they can move to other gambling games, especially if they want to experience a different experience from other gambling games. And some gamblers do it to overcome the boredom they get from gambling on the same game several times. They may want to refresh their minds because they have experienced defeat several times so they need something to relieve boredom. And they move to other gambling games only temporarily and after playing for a while, they will return to the games they are used to. So actually, they just want to experience a different experience from other gambling games so they spend a little time playing this gambling game.

Hard to come up with a point where we are losing a lot on gambling that's why its been discourage to use your hard earned money there so that we will not get hurt financially if we lose some huge amount on the game. That's why its better to quit rather than continue to gamble your faith so we can escape on situation that we want to avoid. But if all is good and you can still able to cope up this activities then maybe do it on minimal manners and just gamble for fun since this is really worth it especially if you enjoy your extra money spent on gambling. I know some other try their luck to earn but if they seek for profit here maybe gambling is not for them since most of the time there emotion will be there number one enemy and might they will lose due to their greed.

I am still playing most of the casino games depending on the mood I am in. For me there is always a phase, where I enjoy one particular game and after several weeks I tend to switch games again so it never gets boring. The first game I ever played in a casino was Roulette, it's the easiest to learn and you play with a lot of people at once. I still remember today how I felt entering the first casino with my friends, we had to dress up in suits and everything looked so elegant. Black Jack was the game I read the most about and I really wanted to play it, but seeing how fast the dealer was giving out cards and the player had to react quickly, I felt nervous and didn't want to embarrass myself. Roulette is definitely my most played game in a casino over all those years and I still enjoy it today. My second most played game is poker, which I got back into during the pandemic lockdowns. My outcomes in all those games are average, I never lost very large sums because I always limit how much money I take with me to the casinos.

I'm someone who generally prefers to gamble with sports betting and slot games which will be different each time. Since I prefer sports betting with mucher than slots I can say that I regularly gamble with sports betting. To talk about my story, unfortunately there is nothing that will change my life in a positive way at least it doesn't end like this.

The year is 2015, when I was a student (at 18). I buy&save Bitcoin with the money I save from my pocket money by doing small jobs on the internet. This way, I had a nice savings and since I got my driver's license I converted all my Bitcoins into cash to buy my first car. However, I left a very small balance of 0.002 Bitcoin in my wallet for gambling and then transferred it to my Cloudbet account. First of all, everything started very well and I started to multiply this amount regularly with sports betting. After a few weeks, I earned 2.15 BTC with sports betting. Because I was winning regularly and had a gambling addiction at the time, a match in live football betting caught my attention. I didn't know either team but the score was 1-1 in the 10th minute. When I checked the betting odds, there was an odds of 1.15 for over 2.5 and since this rate was quite high for the remaining period I thought there might be another goal and placed a bet worth 2 Bitcoins. What was the result? The match ended 1-1 and that would negatively affect my life took place!

I state that this situation negatively affected my life because after this bet (if I won) I was going to withdraw 2 Bitcoins and continue betting with the remaining balance in my account but I couldn't do this. At that time, my only concern was betting regardless of the bet amount. Even though the value of 2 Bitcoins varied between 550-600 USD at the time of this incident, as a real diamond hand I was sure that I would not convert the 2 Bitcoins I earned into cash and that I would save this investment for the long term. This loss resulted in a potential gain of approximately $40,000 on the 2017 bull and a potential gain of $140,000 on the 2021 bull run. Of course, the amount I mentioned might not have helped my life change significantly but maybe today with that money I would own my own business and not be a salaried employee for someone else.

I just checked my Cloudbet bet history to add this bet here but I couldn't add a screenshot because I couldn't find this bet I mentioned because it was too old.

It's a good decision to quit gambling at the start when you realise that you don't want to lose money anymore. It's a good thing you noticed, and you wake up early rather than sinking yourself into stuff you know you can't afford. As you say, you only use your salary to fund your gambling. I advised that if you think you will not win in that game or if you know that it will not be a good path, then I suggest you don't come back again in that game. If you really want to gamble, maybe find another game that suits you. Lottery games only rely on luck, so you never know when you will win. You might win, but it may cost you a lot, which is not good. So I think you better find another game and, of course, prepare capital that you can afford to lose.

Yeah, that's partly how addiction is formed.

You start with something new, you like it, and then you continue doing it.

At some point it becomes your new normal, and actually not doing it feels wrong or negative. Then the withdrawal stage starts until you get a new normal again.

Behaviors can be as addictive as drugs.

It is hard to change the games that you've been gambling on for several years. Like it's already on your daily routine or if you don't gamble a lot, that only means that you've been stuck on it and not willing to leave that game for so long. That's the reason why those games that I like I only gamble on, sometimes I try to gamble on games that I don't usually go on but they're not interesting to me because I just don't like the mechanics of the game and the game itself. That is the reason for those sportsbetting like basketball and boxing, these are like the main sports of the majority here in our country so it's like part of the culture already.

Did you stop playing virtual betting and move over to another form of betting? As it appears to me, leaving one's favourite game is really not an easy thing to do, but virtual is out of the uestion.
 
It has been proven that virtual is not the worst game one can get addicted to in a physical gambling shop. Things happen over there, and within a matter of 30 minutes, if you are constantly placing bets, you could be able to conclude 3-5 bet slips, and if the games did not play in your favour, you are counting losses in five different games.

Sometimes it appears that it's the fastest means of winning and doubling your earnings in a short period of time, which makes people always want to try it out, but it always turns out to be the opposite at the end, as most people always realize they have lost more than they planned to play with without even realizing it.

Yeah, they're still the games that I play because I am familiar with them.

It's a strategy and I always see people do that within the lotteries that I used to see with the directions that I am going. Those that are buying as many as they can thinking that they'll have more chances to hit some jackpots.

Not just jackpots though but also good amount of winnings. Some are successful in winning but most of them are not.

In general, I almost like types of gambling games, both previous and current era games. In the past, gambling was not as sophisticated and popular in the era of sophisticated internet technology as it is today. I have almost tried many games, but the ones I like the most are Baccarat and Texas hold'em Poker type games, apart from football betting which is always a favorite. Of the two types of gambling that I like, for me Baccarat is a game that can get a quick win in one shot.
Actually, it's not much different from Poker, but Baccarat is a short game between Banker and Player or other options. Usually, people who like this type of game always use the martingale technique. However, it doesn't have to be every game that we have to fold I mean, this technique is combined with the situation and the game. At first I started to like it, this type of game makes it easy to make a profit. Unmitigated, I have made huge profits from my version. Unfortunately, the more I like it, I lose more than I win. and finally, just playing Poker.

The difference is, this type of game sometimes takes up a lot of our time. which in the end, I often neglect responsibility. "Please understand that at that time I was relatively young." which ended up affecting my other activities. starting from messy jobs, complicated relationships, and all kinds of things. At a certain stage, I left gambling for quite a long time. In short, we are in the crypto casino community, fortunately my understanding of gambling has broadened. and, finding the definition of gambling for me personally. and currently, there are only two gambling games that I usually play. one of them is a slot machine, but it depends on my mood.

Well, the bet that I haven't left behind until now is football. Luckily, I understand a little about what football is, and everything related to it. for me, it is quite entertaining and sometimes gives decent results although not every session. yes, let's just enjoy it, with the idea of ​​entertainment, nothing more than that.

I have always been a lover of sports and I mean football, both playing and betting. I've been actively betting in soccer ever since 2014. I bet on live games, bookings and viral soccer. However, in 2018, I decided to stop betting on virtual games because it  drains funds faster, like I lost hundreds of thousands of Naira in just one week and the more I lost, the more I was desperate to recover, leading to more loss as that was a bad day for me.
After virtual games humiliated me, I swore allegiance to bookings only and since then, I've had more peace with my betting life.

It’s hard for the gambler like this to spend the full money in the gambling sites.Not even the gambling addicted person will do this type of all the income to the lottery game.The important reason was the gambler should need of the money for their next day meals.If all the full money to the gambling sites and loss the money leads to the big loss for the gambler in the lottery.The lottery was the ancient gambling game and used by the most of the old age gambler because of the addiction to the lottery as compared to the other game in the gambling.The lottery is based on the random number generation for every user,using the random number the person winning will be announced.

Who spends their whole salary on lottery tickets, man? I know that people sometimes gamble and get carried away while doing that and spend more money than they were planning to spend, but lotteries are a bit different, the odds or the probability of winning are usually too low no matter how many tickets you buy, you obviously can't buy half of the tickets. So, what's advisable is to only buy a small number of tickets and try your luck in the lottery because if you are lucky, you will win it even with a few tickets, and if you aren't, even a million tickets won't make you win.

A lot of people I've seen do the same thing, they try to buy as many tickets as possible thinking that it may increase their chances of winning but when something is totally based on luck, there is no point in doing that. Just buy a small number of tickets and wait for the results to see if your luck worked or not.

This isnt really just talking on sports betting but also in other things that we're involved into whether on gambling or with those typical activities that we are really that been doing.There are really indeed moments on which boredom would hit on which changes would really be there and it would really be that depending on someones interest because not all would really be that having on the same choices when it comes to things.For me then it would really be depending or basing up with your mood because it is really just that a normal reaction for someone to do repeatedly doing things which you would really be having those kind of times that you do get used up to it or really that boredom hits you which it is normal that you would be finding for something new.

Basing up on my experience towards gambling then there are lots of games which i had tried already which from casino based games until to card games until to sports betting and vice versa.
As long i do have the money and im on the mood then selection of games would really be entirely be depending on your preference on that certain
point of time thats why it would really vary on this case.

There are times that we get bored especially if we always do such activities just like what we do on sports betting that's why we choose to play on another type of game to ease our boredom and this is normal activity done by anyone since not all gamblers can able to stick on one option only. Maybe other people bet on single type of betting when they are new but once they discover that there are so many options for them to have fun especially when there's no big event on their main site they are betting on for sure they will explore and try to participate especially if there's a running contest and prize set or given to their potential winners is huge. I also play poker on some site but usually I always kill my time on slot games since for me this is more entertaining to play.

Starting with dice games is a popular way to get into the hobby, but sticking with one game over and over again can get old. For example, the martingale approach seems easy at first, but for many people it turns out to be unsafe. What is the minimum number of losses one must experience before spreading out? Many other games are available, such as Limbo and Crash, each with its own rules and tactics. Why put limits on oneself?

I can see why strategy can be appealing when playing dice, but its a mistake to think that strategy means definitely winning. Meanwhile, slot games have recently become very popular, even though they are very random. Why? As a result, they provide a special thrill. If you love dice games, try venturing out of your comfort zone every once in a while. You might be surprised. As the saying goes, life is all about trying new things and enjoying different tastes.