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.
Duelbits and rollbit probably too. Maybe roobet as well
The thing is that there are many styles to play. The most successful players will be those who choose skill games and improve on it