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Topic created on 04th Jul. 2019 | Page: 1 of 4 | Answers: 39 | Views: 7,701
Anonym

How old were you when you started playing?

4th Jul. 2019, at 12:51 pm CEST#1
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I think a lot of people here have played offline before they reached the legal age. How did you start playing and how old were you?

My story:

When you're young, peer pressure often sets in. You get the idea to sit down at the machine in the kebab store and play. As chance would have it, you win the first time and then the cycle begins.
Since then we were at that time (14 year olds) in every free hour in this kebab store and have played. No one was interested in the minimum age and the kebab salesman watched
Now the story does not stop. Since there was only 1 machine in the store and there were 4 of us and we all wanted to play at the same time, we came up with the idea of going to an arcade.

And as fate would have it, we entered the store without any age verification. And we went in there again almost every week

This shows that in terms of youth protection/controls much stricter action must be taken.

Today, at almost 30 years old, I very rarely play online.



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Knochen
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How old were you when you started playing?

4th Jul. 2019, at 12:56 pm CEST#2
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I was 15. I also gambled away 5€ on Sizzling Hot in the kebab store. But absolutely nothing came. The same evening we were then in a bar in our town. There I threw in the back room again 2€ and played Book of Ra on 5ct bet. First came some small wins and then 5 statues. At the same moment the waitress came and told me that I was not allowed to play (which was funny, she knew how old we were and smoking and drinking was no problem for her). Anyway, I paid out about 9.50€ directly and we left. The next day I went to the movies with the money

From then on I gambled every now and then but very rarely and always on 5 cents. I always had to look where I get money for cigarettes and could not afford gambling. I started to gamble regularly when I was 19. After graduation, I went with 2 buddies to a real arcade for the first time. A few weeks later I found out that my girlfriend at the time was completely screwing me over and cheating on me all the time. That was the end of it and I was basically just playing

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gamble1
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How old were you when you started playing?

4th Jul. 2019, at 01:00 pm CEST#3
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I was also about 15 or 16 and started in the kebab store because we were good friends with the owners and also partied after closing time

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DiamondDonut
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How old were you when you started playing?

4th Jul. 2019, at 01:09 pm CEST#4
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Moin first


So the very first time I've gambled with 14 years on vacation in Russia at the machine.I've sneaked on so nem weekly market at a machine, have thrown there a few coins purely and not at all knew what happens there. The machine has beeped and flashed

The operator stood there with 3 other men and just watched. At some point, my father stood behind me and cursed what I'm doing there, until he saw that I had won about 2000 rubles (about 50 €). he quickly took out the money and we disappeared.


4 years later I went with a buddy to a gambling house and never came out again...so now for 11 years


The only thing that has changed in that time is that I no longer go to the Spielo for almost 1 year, but play online. >. &lt

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Anonym

How old were you when you started playing?

4th Jul. 2019, at 01:25 pm CEST#5
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I first came into contact with it in England, in Eastbourne. There was a gambling hall on the beach and I always gambled away my loose change there. That was in 1992 and I was a tender 14 years old. Then I started to put a few marks here and there in the machines, which were almost everywhere. Merkur Disc 2 was my favorite. I didn't like the reels that much. I didn't really win, from the beginning I was interested in playing, not winning. At 19, I visited Las Vegas for the first time. It's a difficult age for this city, you're practically not allowed to go anywhere and you can't do anything. I did it anyway. Unfortunately I looked younger then and my stature with the drumsticks as arms did the rest. It was a cat and mouse game Since then I gamble regularly, since about 2 years slots also online. But for a good 15 years Poker and Roulette online. Nowadays I still go to the casino regularly every few months and otherwise I like to travel to places where you can play well. Monaco, Vegas, Atlantic City, Uncasville.

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Anonym

How old were you when you started playing?

4th Jul. 2019, at 01:48 pm CEST#6
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about 8 years^^

4-5 years, jeeeeeeden day in a Greek chip shop where I jeeeeeeden day the daily takings to the German bank have brought. My reward for this: 1-2 20 drachma pieces, at that time (were still D-mark times), exactly as large and heavy as 5 DM pieces... suitable for each pinball and telespiel machine (of which 3 pieces were there)

can still count to 39 in greek

ena, thio, dria, desra, pende, exi, efta, ochto, enja... (for spelling I take no liability^^)

A few years later we took over the biggest arcade in our town for 23 years and.... i lived right above it
In addition, that was in the 90s THE MEETING POINT (including through the back door accessible 2 huge parking lots, main entrance was pedestrian zone) for every criminal or those who still wanted to become one

Well, and so that pulled itself then like a thread through my life;-)

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Dbac79
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How old were you when you started playing?

4th Jul. 2019, at 10:53 pm CEST#7
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i was about 12-13 when i went to the pub with my stepfather, but actually he played and i only ever gambled away his play

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Tropper
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4th Jul. 2019, at 10:57 pm CEST#8
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I was 23, was with the then brother of my ex girlfriend inner pub and he gambled el torerro. He spit many free games, yoa... so it has developed...

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Kleinkariert
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How old were you when you started playing?

5th Jul. 2019, at 12:31 am CEST#9
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16, was introduced by my older brother, always thought it was stupid but at some point it was fun and at some point there was a huge win and I wanted to have the experience again and really great wins haven't happened since that night. There were ups and downs, I'm happy that some nights although they were borderline but somehow I could always pull myself together not to throw everything into the fire.

Stopped playing online for now, but plan to start when I have legal security. We go from time to time in the Spielo, we know that the RTP there is terrible but we play there for 20 € on low stakes in slow motion and are sometimes grumbled at by some regular players because we occupy their third machine (not every Spielo takes it so seriously with the law).

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Skitch22
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How old were you when you started playing?

5th Jul. 2019, at 08:46 am CEST#10
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Kleinkariert wrote on 05/07/2019 at 00:31: 16, was introduced by my older brother, always thought it was stupid but at some point it was fun and at some point there was a huge win and I wanted to have the experience again and really great wins have not been since that night. There were ups and downs, I'm happy that on some nights although they were borderline but somehow I could always pull myself together not to throw everything into the fire.

Stopped playing online for now, but plan to start when I have legal security. We go from time to time in the Spielo, we know that the RTP there is terrible but we play there for 20 € on low stakes in slow motion and are sometimes grumbled at by some regular players because we occupy their third machine (not every Spielo takes it so seriously with the law).

So your brother got you hooked on gambling when you were 16?

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