Topic: How was your first attempt to play gambling - page 7. (Read 1980 times)

Crash Games was also one of my first games that I played since it has very simple instructions and is both very interesting and, at the same time, addicting to newbies like me. There are a lot of versions and animations of this, but the concept of the game is still there. Slots and dice games are also simple to play and beginner-friendly. Card games were also popular at the time, but only for those who knew how to play them, but still I find them interesting. 

Mine was in 2015. I accompanied a friend to a bet shop. It was during one of those Premiership games. Little did I know it going to be the beginning of the journey into gambling. Although, I was didn't have an bet account as at them, I gave them some money to increase the amount they were going to wager. We decided we were going to split the profits. Sadly, we loss but because I wasn't in too deep, I didn't feel it. I would later open a bet account  with a gambling site some 6 months later and place bets.

I presume that all of us gambled for the first time outside a fiat casino nor in an online casino. I cannot remember my first experience anymore, but I am certain that I already played many games that include small bets during my childhood. I grew up to a community where gambling is a norm.

After turning 18, it was also the first time I set foot in a casino. I was timid, I wanted to play poker but it I was surprised it is not same ambiance when playing poker with friends. I left the poker tables and find slot machines and other random bets that I do not even had a grasp on how to win. I lost a few bucks and left the casino. I did not enjoy my first casino experience.   

Most of us here started with dice because it was one of the first early games created for crypto gambling. Then it will be followed by crash games. Dice game is fairly simple but it's up to if you will make things complicated by formulating your own strategy to increase your chances of winning.

We can practice easily if the site allows us to play for free but there are some who have a demo mode on them. The graphics of most dice games are basic not like to slot games but it doesn't mean that we can't enjoy dice games anymore. We can because dice sites have come up with different contests and the one that I like is where I will find a certain number and multiplier.

I took my time playing dice on my first go but it was easy to learn since some casinos would let you keep on rolling even without any money involved. I still remember during that time I found dice to be underwhelming at first because I was expecting the gameplay to have some sort of visuals similar to slots or other casino games but later on it got more enjoyable though.

I don't remember where it all started but I just go with the flow. There are gambling games that was easy to learn and don't really need much studying to understand the gameplay. Not unless there's a specific gambling game that really makes me puzzled, that's the time I will learn how that gambling is played.

I will just progress and keep my gambling activity healthy. Enjoy while trying to generate profits.

Since then, I learned a lot about how to deal with gambling-related problems which makes me a better gambler.

My first attempt gambling was really terrible be sure I wass always told that I will always make some winnings even when I lost but the first time I gambled, I never make any winnings and it was very confusing to me. I had to think of how I will replace my back with the attempt that if I play again I will win. I tried playing again and I still make loses, then I decided to leave gambling for that time. I never had any luck at all ok n the day if my first gambling. For to gamble on so particular games, we really need understanding and ideas on how to start and go about things.

Those are just beliefs and there's no evidence that it does really work or effective because we do really love on tying up things into gambling which we do convince ourselves that it is really a lucky thing.
Each person does have their own experience on how things been done and deal up with something that we havent experienced before. On my first attempt with gambling is when im still young
where my neighbors or friends had that coin toss kind of gambling where you do need to guess whether its a head or tails and if it turns out to be right then you do win.
Until on the time that i had already some knowledge then the awareness and experience do even get wider.

As far as I remember, I was tempted to bet that time without even prior knowledge in gambling just because my wife is pregnant, and they say pregnant women are lucky in most of their chosen bets. And so we won that bet. Later on, I started to bet on my own and while my experience gets deeper, I am also learning from gambling. Maybe that made me a good gambler somehow because I was able to learn from my mistakes and losses, and not only from gambling articles alone.

My earliest memory of gambling was through an amusement park. In my country, local unmoderated amusement parks often have stalls for gambling, color game, blackjack, chinese poker, and dice are among the few games that I have played when I was in one. My dad used to give me a dollar to spend on those and of course since I was barely a conscious toddler, I would lose all the money on uncalculated bets. My first online gambling however was just in 2018, I got free spins on a certain gambling site which I used and exhausted, I won nothing but that urged me to actually spend real money to buy more  spins and play more games. I broke even that day and that was only through sheer luck because I don't even have half a mind at what I was doing that day. Since then I made a case for myself to never jump on a new venture without researching substantially, especially ones that concern me spending money.

If we are talking about online crypto gambling, dice games were the first game I played, the game is really straight forward and there really is not much to learn about it. the only reason why dice game was my first bet is because of pocket dice, they were one of the earliest crypto casino that I know of and they were quite active here in the forum at the time I started getting into crypto.

Plus, when you are talking about horses, it is obvious that even if a horse is great, that day may not be its best day and could even be last, or not even finish. My first ever betting was on horse races as well, and I have made a good addiction out of that for a long time and wanted to be a horse owner and want to work in that industry.

Because, horse racing is both a lot of money and also not a lot of money at the same time, billions of dollars do not get spent there, in some other industries it does, but reaching to a "winning" level still costs millions if you want to sustain it. I dreamed of starting small, and winning some small purses and then breed and get better horse and then keep repeating that until I have one great horse, but unfortunately I couldn't.

I believe that the first time you look at gambling you always have good memories, the classic beginner's luck.

honestly I always have positive memories of these first games.
for example in the Christmas period, with the whole family...
Or I remember the first physical bookmaker I visited, practically a garage with photocopies on the walls! There was no any kind of study on it. It was just gambling for the pleasure to gamble.

I think many years ago there was more of a family environment in this industry, now it has turned more into an industry.
I am also convinced that crypto casinos have decided to recreate this sort of "atmosphere" and are more interested to the needs of the players.

hi first i gambled about a year ago and faced all kinds of problems. then I found a reliable site and started playing cricket bet live periodically for a period of about 6 months, everything is fine

I fall under this very category and this very friend of mine mostly bets on virtual games especially soccer and he really did well on it.
I was a dumb bettor and basically depended on every virtual games he placed a bet on and I will just tell them to print a double slip for the game played.
I later had to learn the hard way after I relocated from that environment for my national youth service and I lost some good sum from my monthly stipends and I really gave up on betting not untill I found an advert that popped up on my screen, so I just wanted to try it out and also discovered it had a feature that allows you copy the bet of other bettors without having to do the mental work of betting.

My first time playing on an online casino was some 20 years ago. The first game I have ever played was Blackjack. Suffice to say that I've lost all what I've had  as I did not had any idea on how to spell strategies or techniques that would help me get some profits. After that, I started to play poker online and that was about it. Since then, online Poker rooms have been one of my preferred hobbies.

It's just usual to spend time learning first the gambling type we feel we are interested in. Almost all gambling types I've been playing right now were studied first in the beginning because in the first place, how can I even increase my chances of winning if I don't know what I'm gambling with?

Whether casinos games or sports betting, I only gambled on something that I really understand as every cents counts in my gambling activity. It's more fun winning if we gamble for entertainment as I don't want to have a mindset of gambling for fun when in reality, I'm losing money in the process.

I had my first timer's luck. But after that, I've lost countless times so I temporarily sropped; I was just in high school that time and that was a card game I guess which is similar to poker. The next time I tried playing was in college already then I just came back playing three years ago. Through the years of playing, I've experienced various gambling games but I am now currently playing on sportsbetting. I find it more enjoying since I am into sports; gambling is a bonus
Atleast you have experienced and became aware of what greed is than to learn it the hard way. Given how addictive this industry is, people who are wanting to engage with this activity should really be knowledgeable of what they are trying to go into. Things are just not as easy as it may sound and one thing I learned is that, some are just lucky and not everyone has that.

I clearly remember 3 stages how I got familiar with gambling.

First - when I was still in school, on the way home some of my friends were discussing how they easily won a bit in slots. "All you have to do is to get 3 ships, and guess right colour (red or blue) in a free game". So on the way home, we have entered that casino (actually a room with slots), even though it was 18+ only, and we were not even close to that age. I remember how I have inserted equivalent of 5$ bill into a slot, everything was flashing, I have pushed random button several time and lost everything in few minutes.

Second - it was sort of a poker nights during first years in university. It was a mix of poker with buy-ins and drinking whiskey.

Third - I was on a boxing event, and before main fight of the evening has started, a friend of mine said that he is going to place a bet. I did not know how he is going to do that, but he just got his phone, opened betting platform page, made few taps and that is it. I got really impressed with that, with how easy it was to place a bet on a sport event. I always thought that I have to go to sports betting places, talk to a manager/special person, make a bet and spend time there, to be able to collect a reward. But that phone taps and instant deposit/withdrawal really impressed me.

P.S. What also really impressed me, that in my "first" story, when you win in slots in those casino rooms, slot machine did not give you anything (even though you insert coins and bill in there). Instead you go to a manager and call him to the slot machine and show your balance and ask for a withdrawal, then go back to a cash desk and receive cash If you are there alone, while you are walking from slot to manager, that slot can be occupied with someone else. There were cases, when you return, you see someone spending your balance, or that person can say that you have left that slot and left balance on it, it is your fault and nothing can be done now. So you basically got bullied.

I started first in 2019 with dice and my experience was not that bad but was also not that good. Started with small amount and gradually went into the big ones. At first it was good as I was making small profits bit with big amount it was the exact opposite. Now I only bet with smal amounts and somedays are good and some days are bad.