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

R.Melnyk77 · Sep 17, 2025

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?

Tero · Sep 17, 2025

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.

najisami · Sep 17, 2025

R.Melnyk77 said:
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.

najisami · Sep 17, 2025

R.Melnyk77 said:
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.

Poker Orifice · Sep 17, 2025

Poker. 10yrs. old

recerveau · Sep 17, 2025

Mine was "steal a lot" (rouba monte)

Sunz of Beaches · Sep 17, 2025

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.

theoxy · Sep 18, 2025

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

I won 16 euros and after i go to school

antonis32123 · Sep 18, 2025

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 .

fewerz · Sep 18, 2025

R.Melnyk77 said:
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.

riff_raff312 · Sep 18, 2025

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.

Lena M · Sep 18, 2025

R.Melnyk77 said:
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.

Rahul P Gopal · Sep 19, 2025

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. 😁

Newzooozooo · Sep 19, 2025

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.

pentazepam · Sep 19, 2025

At home: poker

Outside the house: slots

mrfastflow · Sep 19, 2025

14 year at a local sports bookmaker

Antonio777 · Sep 20, 2025

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.

Peace,
Tony

Sunz of Beaches · Sep 20, 2025

Antonio777 said:
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.

Peace,
Tony

Very interesting Story. So you were already into Poker many years ago and saw the whole so called "Evolution" of the game it seems.

TeUnit · Sep 20, 2025

Poker at a friends house.

ramdon p358 · Sep 21, 2025

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.

Antonio777 · Sep 21, 2025

Sunz of Beaches said:
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.

Peace,
Tony

Igor G · Sep 23, 2025

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.

dianasamu245 · Sep 23, 2025

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

KeyPatience · Sep 23, 2025

Buying random lottery tickets in my college days! 😂

maronza1 · Sep 23, 2025

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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