What was the first gambling game you played in your life?

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I played my first gambling game before I started school. I think I was five years old. It was a game with coins called ‘Chu’.
What was the first game you played for money? How old were you then?
 
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I'm quite sure it was the lottery. I was maybe seven or eight. Times were different back then and nobody cared if under age kids spent money on gambling. These days everything is very different. One can't even put a coin into a slot machine before registering as a valid users.
 
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I played my first gambling game before I started school. I think I was five years old. It was a game with coins called ‘Chu’.
What was the first game you played for money? How old were you then?

I 1st played for money when I was 17. I had just learned 5 card poker and got addicted to it right away. I was in high school, but a Military Academy where we lived in, so there was a game almost every night though we played for the equivalent of pennies.
 
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I played my first gambling game before I started school. I think I was five years old. It was a game with coins called ‘Chu’.
What was the first game you played for money? How old were you then?

I 1st played for money when I was 17. I had just learned 5 card poker and got addicted to it right away. I was in high school, but a Military Academy where we lived in, so there was a game almost every night though we played for the equivalent of pennies.
 
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Mine was "steal a lot" (rouba monte)
 
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The first gambling game I ever played in my life was definitely roulette. I can still remember it very well. It was a home roulette that we played with a few friends in the home of a good friend.
 
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I played a slots in Riga , i remember i was 17 years young and they dont ask me passport or id and we played slots - book of ra :D I won 16 euros and after i go to school :D
 
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Scratch and sports betting I tried first . After 18 years old I tried poker for free in social platforms and later I played poker for real money on pokerstars . First time I was hooked to slots on FullTilt , they gave me a free chips bet , I think 10$ , I played , I liked a lot , and since then I keep on playing slots . And poker of course .
 
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I played my first gambling game before I started school. I think I was five years old. It was a game with coins called ‘Chu’.
What was the first game you played for money? How old were you then?
It was slot machines with coins. I was around 10 years old. Ironically that i won. But for some reason, I didn’t get an addiction to these things, and I stayed indifferent to them.
 
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First time was 5 card stud with my father and his hunting buddy's i was 14 and got lucky a couple of times in a 5 day hunt not only at the cards i bagged my first Moose.
 
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I played my first gambling game before I started school. I think I was five years old. It was a game with coins called ‘Chu’.
What was the first game you played for money? How old were you then?
The game was called ‘fool.’ It was a simple game for those who could count and remember. We played it with friends for money when I was still in school.
 
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As a kid, we used to play with playing cards of cricketers at school. There was a game played with coin (head/ tail) between 2 players and whoever calls it right will win the complete bet. Not gonna lie, I had a huge collection of cards then. 😁
 
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When I was a child, my friends and I played a game called ‘square’. It is a very simple game with a ball, played on a square field measuring 3 by 3 metres. Four players play, and during the game, players are eliminated until there are two left playing one-on-one to determine the winner. We played this game for several years in a row, almost every day, except for winter days and days when it rained, and we always played for sweets or ice cream.
 
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I was about 7 or 8 years old when my Dad taught me how to play 5 Card Draw Poker. After I caught on to that he started on 5 card stud Poker and after that more and more poker. I didn't play Hold'em until late 1980's or early 90's. Once I was good enough at 5 card draw and 5 card stud i started going with my Dad to local friends poker games and he would stake me in the games. Lots of fun and good memories.

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I was about 7 or 8 years old when my Dad taught me how to play 5 Card Draw Poker. After I caught on to that he started on 5 card stud Poker and after that more and more poker. I didn't play Hold'em until late 1980's or early 90's. Once I was good enough at 5 card draw and 5 card stud i started going with my Dad to local friends poker games and he would stake me in the games. Lots of fun and good memories.

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Very interesting Story. So you were already into Poker many years ago and saw the whole so called "Evolution" of the game it seems.
 
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The first thing I played was sports betting, I remember that I was a minor and this was allowed in my country, something that is now illegal until the age of majority.
 
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Very interesting Story. So you were already into Poker many years ago and saw the whole so called "Evolution" of the game it seems.
Yes I started way back when.There was no such thing as the Internet when I started playing. There had to be Human beings at the table.(😂) online poker is the biggest thing to evolve in my poker lifetime. I think its a good thing but it can be abused. Pro's and Hackers can put a hurt on the Poker Rooms reputation. Just my opinion.

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I played a game called 1000 with my friends. It's a card game. It's not very complicated, but it does require skill and experience. We played for cigarettes.
 
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His name is Ramino he is of Italian origin I think they play with two decks of poker decks with 4 jokers included on a low scale 40 points and 100 points to be in the game it's a lot of fun and if they take you out you can re-enter but putting in twice the money from the ticket
 
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Buying random lottery tickets in my college days! 😂
 
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My first gambling game was called Spinning (or Coin Toss). You’d flip a coin and hide it under your hand, and the other person had to guess whether it was heads or tails.
 
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