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16th January 2019 at 7:18 am #39242
Where did it all start with gamberling?
Mine started with a few mates in a pub on the side of a play zone, mid nineties getto superstar was number 1 in the charts, we used to go in to play a bandit called Make A Million. The excitement of trying to win a £8 jackpot far out weighed the pissed off feeling of losing all our money and walking the 5 miles home. This had us hooked and happened nearly every Saturday. But if it jackpoted it went fot £24 which meant we was rich ?.
From that we spent A lot of time in arcades then eventually the bookies. At first I didn’t play the fobts as I didn’t like roulette, just played the fruit machines.
Then came the day my mate persuade me to put 5 quid into the roulette, I turned that in to £120 and from that moment on I didn’t stop playing them. Always hoping to hit again but it rarely happened.Lost count of the amount of times I’ve done my tits in since that day, strange how you never forget your first win on a fobt, but always forget about the times it fists you in the arse ?.
Anyone else start the same??
16th January 2019 at 9:19 am #39251Wow, had to think about this one….Think i was about 12 and dad used to send me to stand outside the bookies to pass on a bet to someone going in, then ran back home with his slip to watch itv7 on a black n white tv ( the ones you had to put 50p in the back…….on loan from rumbelows i think….lol )
After this i just became fascinated with putting a bet on. Should have learned a lesson then….dad never seemed to win but the dream lives in us all that one day the gambling gods will shine on us…………………………… 🙂
16th January 2019 at 9:49 am #39262We are always chasing that “wow” moment but in reality we would all probably be miles richer if we never spent a penny gamberling .
Well except Bandit who makes thousands a day ??
I don’t think these days gamberling should be allowed for kids, that’s what started us machines in children’s places. Chasing the dream
16th January 2019 at 10:57 am #39297I was probably 6 or 7 when I played slots. Joys of having relatives at the seaside. Started to go in arcade at about 13. It was over 16’s bloke didn’t give a fuck. Miserable twat sat in the change booth chain smoking all day. Ran a book through school mainly doing sweep stakes on anything and everything sport related. Don’t actually remember first bash on a fobt but remember first ever bets coming in. Bindaree in national £10 at 20/1 and rooster booster champion hurdle £20 at 5’s. Didn’t even know how to do each way. After that it’s been arcades, casinos, poker, online slots and even bingo. Bit calmer these days I don’t go nowhere near as mad as I used to. At 41 now first slots I played were 2p a go for 1.50 jackpot.
16th January 2019 at 11:06 am #39304For me it was Fruits at 16 – my Mum and Dad gave me £160 on my 16th birthday Imthat they’d been saving since I was born and I bought a suit, a shirt and a pair of shoes for about £100 total and the rest went on Sidewinder and another fruity I can’t remenber its name – what a knob. That was the end of that! Then at 18 I was at college and walked into town one day with some mates and one of them dragged us into Corals. I’d never placed a bet before so took some advice and put on a £1 win patent. The worst possible thing happened – they all won! I still remember one of the selections – Ski Captain – have gambled in some form or another ever since. Silly boy!!!
16th January 2019 at 11:16 am #39308Was about 9 in a work mans club with the parents. They gave me a couple of quid to shut me up for a few minutes, I disappeared to the 10/p spin £100 jackpot fruity – came back with £60, eyes beaming, could barely carry it all in my little hands at the time – Straight to cash converters for a few mega drive games. Thought I’d won the lottery.
16th January 2019 at 12:50 pm #39329So if you could go back would you stay clear for all gamberling activities ?? I’d like to think I would of tried too. But the flashing lights would of got me in the end lol.
I went to GA for a bit once and my mindset really changed about sending any money gamberling. For nearly a year I didn’t waste a penny.
Then Christmas break off I’m out mith the brother in-law and he has to nip into the bookies to place a football bet, I think fuck it I’ll put my change into the roulette …
20 min later I’m like a herion addict the need is back and big. Blew my full bank balance . What a shitter ha
16th January 2019 at 1:06 pm #39332My dad used to take us as kids to the amusement arcades by the sea, obviously it was just penny pushers and things at the time, but I guess from there the interest grew! Started playing the old 2p a spin £2.50 jackpot fruities, then the £5 jackpots and once I was 18, started going to the casino and playing online!
16th January 2019 at 1:11 pm #39334My first gambling experience was with my Old Man going to Haydock races when I was around 11 or 12, he said he would give me £10 to put on a horse of my choice. Picked one out because I liked the name and it only went and came in at 16/1; that was me getting a new pushbike on the way home that I’d been wanting!
My first independent experience was probably playing the fruties in the local pub where my sister used to work. My first legal gambling experience was going to the casino at 18 years old and busting out of a £20 poker comp embarrassingly fast. However, whist waiting for my mate to finish playing the same comp I stuck a tenner in a slot machine, I had never played any slots apart from pub fruties at this point. I clearly remember it being lucky ladies charm on a 50p bet size. On the 3rd or 4th press the bonus rolled in, had no clue what was going on at the time and just saw the win keep counting up after many, many retriggers! About 20 minutes later the bonus finishes and I’m walking to the cash desk with my cashout voucher for around £650 and am absolutely astonished I’ve got a load of £50 notes in my pocket! Talk about beginners luck eh, if only at the time I knew it didn’t work out like that every time. It was almost like the casino wanted me to win big on my first trip to keep me coming back for more, I’ll never forget that feeling of my first big win..
16th January 2019 at 1:24 pm #39339I remember it like it was yesterday.. I was eighteen and me and a big group of mates all went to a local Wetherspoons for a breakfast and a hair of the dog after a night out but being the baby faced 18yr old I was i got asked for I’D and didn’t have it so was told either I leave or no one can drink so I said I’d leave and meet up after and when I left o for some reason decided to visit the William hill across the road I put a fiver in and won 17quid, withdrew and was so happy I text one of my mates who came over and had a go with me, I put 7 in and won 100 at this point everyone had finished breakfast and came over too we all won something and decided to go to the casino in torquay, I won 700 that night and continued on a winning streak for about two months until one day I lost the lot and have since lost at least 50k chasing the feeling
It’s eight years on now and I’ve only just managed to take full control of it, mostly with the help of what people post here and the bandits videos as a sort of fix for myself lol
16th January 2019 at 1:55 pm #39353For me it wasn’t when I was young. I started in my 20’s when I got a job in retail serving people scratch cards and seeing some of the juicy wins people managed to pull so I started buying a lot of them with my wages at one point I was spending £100 a week on scratchcards and got the occasional £100 win but nothing to boast about considering how many I ended up buying. When I changed jobs I started working in a Bargain Booze in Shotton and my cousin was the manager for a while I kept on with the scratch cards until I started moaning to my cousin that I’m stopping because the returns on them was piss poor or I’m just that unlucky (it’s the first one) and he turned around and said “Why not play Roulette? If your tossing that away a week on them you’d probably see a better return from that”. This ended up being the worst piece of advice I’ve ever been given haha.
So I started playing small some £25 deposits here and then worked it up to £100-200 and walk away, my cousin on the other hand would always play like Paul does, decent size deposit and 2/3 spins hoping to hit big, which he did quite a few times, went on a heater for a few months and was printing money and then I started to do the same hoping for a juicy 4 figure sum, well it didn’t go well for me…biggest win I had in all the time of trying was £2.5k from £200 every other time I just got rinsed. One night while on my laptop after doing my bollocks in on roulette I figured I would watch some Youtube and after watching some videos of Rolla playing roulette I saw in my recommended videos one called “The best of Tony G” or something a long those lines…I must have sat there all night watching footage from Tony G, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negs and Doyle Brunson. After that I learnt the game of poker and started playing that instead. I liked how my bankroll didn’t go from £100/£200 to £0 in less than an hour…In fact I didn’t need to redeposit at all in most cases (unless I decided to take shots) but I was a break even player.
It’s only recently I started playing slots after watching The Bandit, for me they was always a fools game with no skill or decision making involved and I couldn’t see the appeal of them but that was when I used to gamble for profit nowadays I just do it for entertainment and I get it now I guess you could say haha.
16th January 2019 at 6:08 pm #39462I started when I was 11 playing “How bigs your rock” 5p fruity at a Haven site. Done the fruits ever since.
1st online experience was bingo around 18. Won some decent amounts.
Done the football bets since I was 21.
Online slots was 2016 at 28 years old. Low Roller. 40p spins my fave. Best wins have come from Joker Pro for hot line twice and a few 300-500x’s on Danger.
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