I completely agree with bud, and to mention that your experience seems like just the same as mine.
Aside from gambling offline, I would say that freebitco was the platform where I did my very first online gambling, and the game I played really often back then in 2016 was Hi-Lo, I actually knew and joined freebitco before finding and joining this forum, this was when I first knew about bitcoin and in my search for where to get some free bitcoin, I discovered freebitco, I joined the platform and was earning free Sars through their Faucet, but I ended up spending most of it on the Hi-Lo game lol.
Loses in gambling are a great way to learn, personally, when I was still new to gambling, I used to think making money from gambling was very easy, I started and after losing money everyday for about a week without a single win, that mindset changed, I realized I have to apply wisdom to my gambling activities, specially in the area of finance, else, I might end up losing my entire life savings.
How good my bro, I think that many of us when we started in the world of games was thanks to Freebitco.in, however I think that those experiences that many of us had on the Platform made us gain a lot of experience, made us learn how to bet, also how to deal with losses, because I was one of those who was always Waiting to hit the Roll to play Hi-Lo , and it was impressive how that game was able to get hooked on you, after that is that I also joined the forum and learned a lot of things, but in itself that game at least in me made me mature many concepts that I did not know, then in the forum they were mentioned.