What was the first thing you ever gambled on?

[Duff85]

Used to stop in at the off-track with Dad occasionally when I was eight or thereabouts. Occasionally i'd get him to whack a buck each way on something with a cool name for me. One time when I was 11 or so my friend and I went to a nearby racetrack by ourselves and convinced one of the regs to put some bets on for us. I never had a chance. ;-)

[beach nut]

A $10 square in a super bowl pool when I was 11.

[spurginobili]

1981 Kentucky Derby

[obamaismyuncle]

10# football boards started probably around the age of 5

[hubie69]

March Madness pools in school when I was a kid, we use to charge every kid 10 bucks, put a bracket in. We did that from 6th grade up to 12th grade, now we go to vegas every year for the tourney

[pavyracer]

Horses. My dad would take me to the track when I was 8 years old and we would gamble on horses all day.

[staf]

Lost money on "The Fumble".

[Glitch]

use to play poker for halloween candy with my siblings at a very young age. cant remember anything before that...maybe a scratchoff ticket.

[floridagolfer]

Harness racing . . . 30 years ago . . . had $5 across the board on a 22-to-1 shot that won. I don't even remember making another bet that night, and certainly I don't recall what I did with my winnings, but I probably thought to myself, Wow, this is easy.

Ha!

[Mr. Jones]

Bet on a lot of things as a kid with my kid buddies. But my first adult bet, though I was still several years removed from doing this legally, that I remember so clearly was in the fall of 1964 at the Tampa Dog track. I bet $2 to win on a 6 to 1 dog named Kansas Misty. It won. I was 17 and remember a fantastic warm feeling as I cashed the ticket.

Hooked would be an understatement. I have responsibility progressed from there over the last 47 years and loved almost every minute of it.

[str]

Used to putt against my dad for .10 cents a stroke on a practice putting green he made in our back yard.We would play in the evening and he would always have a baseball game on the radio he had bet.If I won 50 cents or so, I would sometimes buy a piece of his baseball action.We would settle every time it got to 1 dollar.
Back in the 60s when a buck could do some damage.

[DennisGreen]

Pog for me as well. Still remember stacking little kids at lunch and them running off crying to the principal

[Josu]

Pogs. But in betting on sports, it was soccer, english premier league.