Topic: How was your first experience with gambling? - page 12. (Read 3069 times)

You want to discuss gambling as a pastime for those who enjoy having fun? Cute. Do not be naive, please. The house ALWAYS wins, and it's not about the little joys or seeking entertainment. It's about the rush of winning and making your presence known in the ring

You claim that it's vital to alter one's perspective. But let's face it, gaming is not meant to "cheer you up." A battleground is gambling. You are not in the arena to be praised; rather, you are there to conquer. The pure thrill of taking a chance and the adrenaline rush of acting are what it's all about

Avoid using the soft approach of "let's say when we lose, we pay someone to cheer us up." Seriously? Your therapist is not gambling, sorry. Going large is the only option in this brutal game. If the heat becomes too much for you, leave the casino

Changing the way of thinking in gambling is very important, gambling is actually not only about winning and losing because it is a natural thing, especially in that there is risk as well as fun, it is true that gambling must be careful and controlled because if we exceed the limit then we will get carried away too deep to become addicted to gambling and it will not be good in the end.

Why is it necessary to change the mindset, sometimes the mindset is important, for example, if we think that gambling is fun then we can overcome and control ourselves better, isn't gambling created to give pleasure to the players, let's say when we lose we pay someone to cheer us up this is the same as gambling where we seek entertainment by gambling, not prioritizing the big wins and money we get.

I haven't been into a physical casino or an offshore casino, so I won't be able to suggest anything here. I did imagine the scenario and I would say it is hard to control yourself in such a situation. After all you are a man and not a saint, who is able to control his urges. This might be the typical reason why gamblers love gambling in a physical casino than an online one. With online casino you can have alcohol but you won't be able to have those ladies encouraging you to gamble

The similarities are just the similarities in the game, how betting works and some of the main features, but what makes the difference is in terms of service, trust and the forms of requirements and also the promotions that are given.
Of all the similarities and differences that exist, it can provide different experiences so that every gambler at a casino with one another will definitely have different experiences and knowledge.
By playing in more than 1 casino there are benefits that can be taken in the form of experience and experience is very important and even really needed, all jija gamblers want to become more professional gamblers.

There are many gamblers out there who switch between casinos and usually this is done by gamblers who want to have more experience and knowledge.

If they play at an offshore casino, the temptation will be even greater because apart from drinking alcohol, they will also be accompanied by sexy girls who will tempt them to keep playing. It's possible that the girls were part of the casino and were deliberately asked to accompany the gamblers so that the gamblers would spend their money to gamble. We must be able to control ourselves well and be able to say that we have had enough of gambling and now we are having fun with other things

So that is the experience of each gambler that will be different from other gamblers. Meanwhile, by frequently playing gambling at many casinos, whether offline or online, we will definitely have more experience that will be useful for us in dealing with all situations that might occur. And we can also learn from each experience to keep ourselves in good control.

The experience of playing gambling begins with learning that someone who really wants to gamble will of course see how to play it and how to win later. without realizing it, in gambling we must also be prepared to accept defeat.

Gambling will make a person addicted or addicted, if it is not played carefully it will be fatal for yourself. At least we have to be able to control gambling, because we don't know when we will experience victory or defeat.

Yes, the entire casino atmosphere is not an accident, and also why casinos all around the world look the same basically.

They are all designed with the same ideas, basically to keep the gamblers there playing as much as possible.

With comfortable seats, table(seat) service with free snacks and drinks, no windows, no clocks, no idea of time passing by, usually open 24 hours, etc. And all the lights and sounds designed to attract and keep the people engaged.

My first experience with gambling was one that made me happy,It was a virtual sport of about  ten thousand naira that I won with 150.That afternoon,I was so hungry and needed to eat,but I had no money on me,I told my friend and he told me that we should go and try a game of luck,if I am lucky,I will win big,so I decided to go with him having no cash on me.We got to the virtual hall and he gave me 150 to try only one hand,I prayed in my heart and play the 150,the game kicked-off,and at the end I saw that all the ones I pointed played,I was so happy when the money was given to me,so I decided to play again with another 150,I lost that hand and decided not to play again.I was so happy that afternoon,but I didn't know that the win will turn out to be bad for me today,because I have turned an addict to the game and can't stop it anymore.

Alcohol plays a big role if you are inside an offshore casino plus those girls who serves or who's playing as your banker things that can influenced you to keep playing, instead of controlling yourself those factors can really push you to keep betting, an experienced that will give you that desire to keep playing back.

In terms of online, there are also things that will bring you back something that will attract your attention. Win or lose, you will feel that urgency to go back and re-try your luck.

Even if it's a win from someone else, it can make a gambler return to playing, even after losing, because he also wants to win like those other people. The voices and lights he heard made him forget to stop and recalculate his money because he should have experienced a decrease in his balance with the losses he had obtained. And he will still gamble, especially if he is drinking alcohol, because that can also make him forget to control himself and stop on time. And maybe that was the initial experience of someone playing gambling at an offline casino and clearly different from the experience of people playing gambling at an online casino.

completely agree with both of you, for the land based casinos, environment and its setting is everything, the state of the playing machines is also important, though for me, I don't fancy sounds that much, I've never played on big offline casino, so let me just say that, I've never played on a physical slot machine before, but if I ever get to do that, i did turn off the sound if there is a button openly placed for that, and this is because I hate noise when I wanna focus on something, like when i am playing online slot or casino games on my phone or personal computer, i always turn off or take down the sounds to the barest minimum because having it so loud always seems distracting to me.
So, i am just pointing out that the sound thing mean nothing to people like myself,  but then, environment is one important factor for me, and also the state of the machines, and maybe some free perks like cold soft drinks and some snacks, but when it comes to sound, people like me like everywhere quiet.

Yes, exactly. And then you also add some free snacks, and some free drinks to keep the people gambling there as long as possible.

In reality they could have probably paid for a Michelin Starred restaurant with all the money they are pouring into the machines.

Well, but not everything ends in addiction, some things don't turn out that way and I think that depends on the personality of each person, for example, in my first experience with the casino, I played dice, I won, and that didn't trigger me to be addicted, everything On the contrary, I really didn't know what I had done at that time, for me it was winning, but I almost didn't win, I thought that the question of technology with bitcoin, sats all that was new to me, I didn't understand it much, but it was when I began to see that some things did not make much sense, I began to look for the meaning when I knew what I had won, that is, the amount in dollars, because at that time everything was numbers that were before the zero that appraised. That didn't mean much to me, of course, in the midst of all that ignorance, I had around 2mBTC, which I did in less than half an hour, but for me that was practically nothing, and I played without fear, because I thought that was not nor half a dollar, although I didn't like what he was asking for, because he played by saying that the number that fell is very large, so a smaller one must fall, and so he kept giving it.

Some time later when I read and shared about bitcoin, what it represented in money, well then it was kind of bad, because I put a stop to what I was doing by trial and error, that is, I had innate luck, because I didn't know what I had been earning at that moment, so obviously it was enough, I wanted to do it to get to bitcoin, but that seemed difficult to me, and I knew that if I played everything in one play, I would lose everything, that's where I didn't aim to go to an addiction process, I aimed to look for strategies to continue winning but in a technical way, that is, to know what I was doing and not to play with chance, only with my luck, but with strategies, and that was where it all began, but I was very far from an addiction process, because you have to see everything from the most correct point of view, if we see it as greed, I knew I was going to lose, but if I saw it as a business, things change.

Sound and light do play an important part in a casino. The more bright light and the winning sound gives a confidence jolt to the gambler and it encourages to place more bets. These are tricks that have been used for sometimes now. When you lose it is very different it as they keep the sound and graphics bear minimum. That basically means it's okay continue with your next bet. Have you noticed almost all online casinos have dark back and bright color graphics with an easy to understand layout. All are part of enhancing user experience and encouraging longer stay.

Yes, casinos know this, and they design their machines to give you a lot of small wins with lots of sounds and lights, even if you just won a few cents.

Then the moment you lose, all the systems go down and it's quiet, completely the reverse.

Winning for the first time is just a trigger that causes someone to increase the bet amount even bigger. But not a few people who are addicted to gambling are caused by continuing to chase victory like they got for the first time.

it is absolutely true that environment is the main factor a person is still involved in gambling. The scope can make someone who has never gambled even though they can be influenced to become an acute gambler due to environmental factors.
So this is where we need to sort out and choose an environment that is good for us, if indeed we do not have a strong determination that causes us to be easily influenced by the outside environment.

That's why you have to have better self-control than them so that you can stay aware when playing gambling and not be tempted by anything, including promotions from casinos that are very numerous that can make us and them tempted to keep coming back to gambling. Maybe it's not as easy as other people say, but that's what we have to do during gambling, and most people experience bad things after they gamble for the second time because at that moment, there is a desire to stay in gambling. They will try depositing more money to play gambling because they want to recover from previous losses and get wins.

But we must realize that many beginners manage to get wins at the beginning of their gambling, which may be because luck comes at the right time. Or perhaps luck has come to help them win and tempt them by saying I have helped you win. Would you like to come back to gambling again another time? Surely the average person will return to gambling again another time because they are tempted to win again, but most of them will not succeed the second time because they will lose the second game. And this doesn't make them stop for some time but instead try to return to gambling again even though they understand that it will not return the money they have lost.

Or even better, gambling should be seen as an entertainment expense.

It's never going to be extra cash really, because you would probably have more extra cash if you didn't gamble at all to begin with.

We all have reasons why we gamble, mine will be different from yours. The experience was disappointing. I lost considerable amounts of money along this path, as a result to negligent advice from colleagues who were also wagering. We should be capable to fully comprehend our system objectives and techniques. Addiction develops gradually, and we discovered that the one thing that would always hold us back is ignorance. Gambling is not an activity or a source of money for us. Gambling should never be viewed as a source of revenue; rather, it should be viewed as a source of extra cash.

Yup, I'm inclined with that response as well. Winnings might be a factor but the chances for a gambler to get addicted because of it is literally slim specially if it was his or her first time, most addicitions starts with a negativity, either from loss or chasing something that is already unreal, like your old capital that will never go back to you because what's done is already done. Might as well get a fresh start with a correct mindset so that you will not get addicited and be one of those guys struggling to get out of their situation.