Your First Gambling Experiences

dude pogs were awesome, i had some pretty sweet fukin slammers

First gambool was like 6 or 7 years old my grandma had all the grandkids (6) in a big cash game. We played things like Rummy and bingo for pennies which all were hers and she always crushed our souls, she showed no mercy. She treated us like randoms. NOW I SHOW NO MERCY. thanks grandma

I was really into Magic the Gathering when I was in middle school. My friends and I would play each other for money and rare cards.

5 card draw when i was 10-11 i guess, played with friends for pennies.

Sports betting when i was 13 or so (yes you could do that where i live back in 1998 lol) Eurofootball YEAAAAHHHHH

lol at gambling for pogs and magic cards and stuff.. i just stole all that stuff.. i guess that was my first big gambol, i got caught in school when i was 10, i had a ring of 3 people working under me, we would roll to all the stores in town, steal electronics and anything else we wanted, then we all sold um at school for 75% off.. when i went to court the judge was more impressed than pissed lol, i just had to write a paper and i got let off..

not a brag for getting caught

small like 2 dollar bets on madden i think. easy money. i never liked gambling really lol.

On February 05 2010 15:36 bane wrote: not a brag for getting caught

brag for going unpunished in the states imo.

edit: also the cost of that tap ass card is WAAAY OFFF

i think my gambling cherry was popped back in elementary school when my dad taught me a weird version of pot limit 7 card stud and black jack. he hella cheated at black jack and i was the first in my family to catch him dealing off the bottom LOLLLL.

On February 05 2010 09:40 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: Me and friends used to toss a coin to the wall and see who could land it the closest. Forgot what we called it lol

Pitch'n'Toss at least where I'm from.

pogs, tazo's, gogo's - Damn those were the shit!

7 years old, you know those coloured papers that you make origami with? You would carry those in massive stacks.
It's kind of hard to explain how the game goes, but I'll try to be as visual as possible.

Basically, those stacks of small coloured square papers are your chips.
You bet an amount, and your opponent must match it (or approximately match the size). It is a heads-up only game.
The combined stacks of papers are now a pot. They're stacked up high in a single row.
The pot goes to the middle, and the goal is to flip them so it shows their white side. You get to keep all that is flipped.

You are to flip it by various techniques but you are never directly flipping them over, that is cheating.
But instead, you are using two or one hand to create this oval shape and hit the top of the stack to flip it.
The trick is to make it as air tight as possible.
I am not sure of the exact science behind it, but if you have a good form with your hand, upon practising on a marble ground it will make a very hollow sound.

I may draw a diagram later when I get home to illustrate it.
So you rock paper scissors to see who goes first and takes turns when the other guy fails.
But among the gosu (the hell's the plural for this), stack size rarely matters as it will always be a single shot blow unless they mess up.
It is a game of true skill and endurance as these matches can last many many hours until you break the other guy of these precious origami papers.

farting had been a great gamble a few times back in the day

first gambling experience i had is when i would go to the arcade with my dad on weekends and wed play bet games vs people on the 4 player f1 racing machines that sega made. then we'd go to the bar to play pool (id watch him shark people) and craps on one of those video machines they put at the bar (this is like 92-93ish btw). THEN we'd go home and play 5card draw and 7card stud. he also showed me this sick variant of 7stud called 7stud roll your own, all the way, hi/lo, low card in the hole wild(paul's game for short). you also had to declare whether you were going hi or low or both ways at showdown by holding out 1, 2, or 3 chips. it was a sick variant that i bust out to this day if we are playing dealers choice. needless to say i learned the ways of the gambool very early on. its prolly why ive stuck to playing live so much.

when i was real young around 6 ish we gambled with marbles... then wrestling / TMNT cards by seeing who could throw the card closest to the wall to win.

first ever gamble was in a cafe eating lunch and i bet paying for lunch that i could throw a crumpled up paper napkin into an espresso cup 4 tables away while sitting down. I have horrible eye sight and never use glasses, plus my aim isn't famous, so i got snap called, threw it and won Best Lunch EVER.

started playing for marbles when I was really young, it's pretty big here on elementary schools. after winning a lot I wouldn't know what to do with them so I'd just sell them again. after that came flippos (the same things sam just posted) with which you could play tons of games as well. I played anything that was popular basically as long as you'd be able to win. in high school I was making my first sport bets though very small and on rare occasion. the common form was parlays which I now know is a complete ripoff. still managed to hit some and be up from it though.

I begged my dad to put £5 on Brazil to win USA 94
I woulda been 9 at the time. I think it paid something dumb like 3:1
They won the final on penalties when Baggio hammered it over the bar.
My dad had secretly put £10 on for me instead, I was rich.

My Mom married my Stepdad in Vegas when I was 10.. It was amazing to see the gamble .. altho I obv wasnt allowed to even get close to any tables or slotmachines.. still thats when I first got in touch with gambool

my dad once wanted to teach me that gambling is bad, so he told me he could give me my allowance 5$ or whatever for that week or i could try to double it with dice. I ran it up to something like 50$ and never played again, he was pissed lol

a much better story

I was walking around in new york and i saw a circle crowded around some dudes. They were playing chess. One was a black dude, he obv was trying to make monies... the two boards in front of him and such were his. There were 2 , 10$ bills next of the board that was being played on and he was crushing some weak fatty business man. As i was watching I was amazed by how bad they both were playing. The black guy had the game clinched bc the fatty was so terribad but he was making very non optimal plays. I was in love with chess when i was a kid.

I thought to myself, well, looks like u don't need to be that good to make a few bucks on the street off chess. I put my 10$ down and we started playing. After a few moves it became very apparent that he had totally hustled me. He had played bad without giving up the game to draw in spectators. Was actually cool to be hustled like that :D

hahaha sic story steal city

Eh I use to buy/re-sell pokemon cards back in the day. If you wanted a card, I was the man to get it for you. xD
Also played pogs - FOR KEEPS NIGGAZ
In high school I use to degen it up by doing 50$ coin flips (lol I wouldn't even flip for 10 bucks now... such a nit :[ )

I also would play Poker in Class with a few kids, ended up about a hundred before the quarter was up. We modded it though, we'd deal cards and keep them out of the teachers view, then we'd bet a number (usually started with 5000 points for 20 bucks) so bet could be any random number, after that we'd scratch off the old score and replace it with the new score. Was really ghetto but I was a huge luckbox back then.