Majority of persons who go this far in gambling addiction often have a similar goal to achieve, and that is to recover their losses from the gambling site/ casino. One of the easiest way to get addicted is chasing after your loss in which the probability of you catching up with your losses is just 1%, while the remaining 99 says you cannot catch up with your losses. Op I'll recommend you don't give up advising your friend to quit gambling because if he mistakenly use his addiction to Interfere with his source of income, the story won't be friendly anymore, he might get too depressed to the extent of taking his life. So keep doing your best to talk home out of it.

When experiencing a losing streak, every gambler definitely feels very disappointed.  This is where we have to be able to control ourselves and respond wisely by thinking that maybe luck has not yet come our way.  If we decide to continue playing, it is very likely that our focus in gambling is only to get back the initial capital spent, then the negative impact of the games we play will become increasingly uncontrollable.

Frustration of always losing in games is one of the reasons why someone cannot control their emotions when gambling, they hope to get more returns by placing a larger bet amount when they have experienced consecutive losses.  This is often experienced by people who are no longer confident when playing gambling, they cannot play casually and are too hasty to chase victory with the wrong strategy and end up bankrupt.

Gambling addiction has indeed puts strain on relationships by causing financial problems, emotional distress, and social isolation. While gambling can be fun, becoming addicted can have serious effects,  like having financial problems and communication breakdown. To deal with the reasons of addictions and fix relationship, getting help is very important.

True friends will always accompany us through thick and thin because they are sincere to us and vice versa. We have to appreciate our friends who always advise us for our good and we should also be able to do the same as them. At least they try to help us and are always willing to listen to what we complain about. If they can help, they will help us and always accompany us so we don't feel alone in solving the problem. We must also be able to do the same when our friends experience problems so that our friendship will be even closer because that is what true friends are like.