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Other topics related to... : How old were you when you started playing? (Page 4)

Topic created on 04th Jul. 2019 | Page: 4 of 4 | Answers: 39 | Views: 7,670
sonne10
Top Member
Sweep88 wrote on 07/07/2019 at 20:37: 18 years ....


Exactly for my 18th birthday we went to a pub.
There hung such a real Daddelautomat ... with 5 suns and Risk ladder - just cool - pure nostalgia !

5 Marks purely and it came 5 suns ...

100 super special games ...

280 Marks I got out at that time ...all in 5 Mark coins

That was by the way at that time a complete apprentice remuneration ...yes !

That was still gambling ...alone the melodies when the Risk ladder went.... grrrrrr.....phaaaaat

the same, I know it too 😁🍺

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Anonym
I started at 23, at that time in DM I earned 4400DM.

Never had money worries and was open to new things.

After work, a colleague said he goes to the arcade and tries his luck.

I had time and wanted to see something new.

5 DM purely and got the five suns. And the machine started to ring too loud. Had 100 series.

Thought me cool.

He gave me if I'm not mistaken. Almost 300 DM.

The next day we went again and won again, this time something with 160-180 DM.

Thought to me man here you can always win

That was the beginning of the end.

I am now 43

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chilliy
Amateur
I was with 30, the first time in a Spielo....
was on a Saturday evening, the idea came from my cousin (had already experience with it) got that evening at Wild Rubies with 20 ct bet a super picture and won 180 €....ausgecasht and bought me something nice from the win...online I play for about 2 years at irregular intervals

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Anonym

that was with 16 in some pub in Bavaria on vacation, a few pennies in the machine thrown,
without result

then with 18 a win with a Nova....?? Device in the Spielo, 5 Marks thrown in and approx.
70 Marks won, that was of course something...
I gambled for years in the Spielo, many machines at the same time, then I also bought machines for home
Equipment at home but that was not a replacement because I had the keys and at any time
the coal could get out again!

But I like these old Merkur Slot machines (and others) still today !
Nice and carefully press up, although that was probably already determined at that time ???
But since everyone had so his tactics

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Falko
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TheGoldenDwarf wrote on 08/13/2019 at 19:43
that was at 16 in some pub in Bavaria on vacation, threw a few pennies into the machine,
without result

then with 18 a win at a Nova....?? Device in the Spielo, 5 Marks thrown in and approx.
70 Marks won, that was of course something...
I gambled for years in the Spielo, many machines at the same time, then I also bought machines for home
Equipment at home but that was not a replacement because I had the keys and at any time
the coal could get out again!

But I like these old Merkur Slot machines (and others) still today !
Nice and carefully press up, although that was probably already determined at that time ???
But since everyone had so his tactics

If you had thrown the key of your machine into a gutter and only when no more money fit into the box, then you would have broken the thing open. That would have been your biggest win

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Anonym
Falko wrote on 08/13/2019 at 8:17 pm

If you had thrown the key of your vending machine into a gutter and only when no more money fit into the box, then you would have broken the thing open. That would have been your biggest win


Yup - that's right! but I didn't have that idea back then....

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Zwischenmeister
Top Member
Well, I've never actually set foot in a gambling house, I've been to a casino once, but only to play Poker at the time

Just as little have I ever put cash into a machine or even felt the need to use such a device. I could never understand people who did that, why should I burn my money instead of buying something with it? I can't imagine how someone would get addicted to losing their money

Well, things changed when the judge thought it would do me a favor to send me to several months of inpatient addiction therapy

That was in 2016 and I was 38 years old. At that time, I was no longer really addicted to anything, but the judge didn't see it that way. Out of sheer boredom, after seeing other participants (who were in therapy there because of their gambling addiction), I started to Deposit one euro in the evening and get 15 for it. And as "coincidence" would have it, I won a good 300, like most people here

Well, then it was over. At that time I had 16 years of sometimes more, sometimes less excessive drug use behind me, during which I always had my life under control. I was never broke, had a good environment and was satisfied and happy with my life . Yes, there s a way to be a drug user if you know your limits and have yourself under control. And I always had that - until I started playing. You can believe me when I say: I've been through pretty much everything and I don't know any other drug that I would classify as nearly as bad and destructive as gambling...

Edit: the last sentence refers of course exclusively to me and my personality, that may be different with you. Neither did I want to call for the consumption of any substances, nor did I want to express that there are not also people who have the gambling loosely under control!

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Anonym

yes, if you have a soft spot for gambling and playing, you can't get away from it anyway
and there are people who can not get anything out of it, neither Spielo,
nor sports betting, lotto, Poker etc etc are already to be envied, these persons
I have completely exactly with sport bets begun, there was still no Internet, always
and sent it by mail to England, and since then I have not been able to stop
from "playing", sometimes the one more, sometimes the other, but I could never stop
but I could never let it go completely, so I can't blame anyone. There was also no one
who would have brought me somehow to it

But to get a forced therapy from the judge and then with the result,
that's bitter, of course, intermediate master



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Zwischenmeister
Top Member
Well, bitter is relative, of course. The game is also fun. Especially if you win something in between. Which was actually always the case. At least until the end of last year. Until then it was actually still ok, but since 2019 goes with me OVERHAUPT GARTS MORE... Have grad also therefore made 14 days complete break. Let's see, maybe something will work again

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Anonym

Yes, well, ok, I call that then times sleeping dogs awakened, fun can be many things,
is evntl just not so expensive. One wins, then one it even more fun. One loses, loses,
loses, then it is with the fun so a thing...

And I digress now times briefly
Think of the GDR, there was hardly any advertising because they wanted to satisfy needs there and
and not to create needs, and in our current system, needs are constantly being
Needs are awakened, which one did not know before partly at all, and you are thus yes
also on a way were brought you in itself yes not at all wanted to strike

Absolute consumerism prevails here. Creepy

End of the short excursion

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