Sorry but am wondering if you are the one who decides who wins and who loses in gambling? Don't get or understand me wrongly please, I mean no offense, I am trying to correct a wrong narrative of yours here.
Being addicted to gambling does not stop people or gamblers from winning some or even most of their games, as long as the said gambler know his or her right hand from his left hand, addiction to gambling does not make a gambler an automatic loser, just same way being addicted to smoking does not kill the addict in just one day.
Addicts still win games, some of them still make good money through gambling, but their only problem, or one of the major problem they have is that, they will still end up spending all that money they won on gambling again, which if they are lucky, they can still win again, but if unlucky, then they lose, this does not mean that an addicted gambler will just lose and keep losing and never winning, this is a wrong narrative.
Gambling will decide who wins and who loses. Even the casino will not know who wins and loses. But gamblers will continue gambling even if they lose because they still want to recover their losses and try to win the gambling game. Yes, gambling addiction will not stop gamblers from gambling because gambling addiction will encourage gamblers to continue gambling. Gambling addiction experienced by a gambler will make them deeper into gambling without being able to get out of gambling easily. And if he can't realize his gambling addiction, he will only get deeper and even destroy himself because he is already addicted to heavy gambling.
A gambling addict may still be able to win gambling games, but he can also experience a lot of losses when he cannot stop himself from gambling, and that is a big problem for him, so he must be able to realize his mistake. This may require help from other people so that gambling addicts can realize their mistakes and decide to try to cure their gambling addiction so that they can quit gambling without getting into serious problems again. Gambling addicts may not think about winning or losing, but they just want to continue gambling and may not even stop for a moment to rest.
Personal observation shows that there are exceptions to whatever we prescribe. Even when we recommend that gamblers should see gambling as entertainment we have heard stories or even know gamblers who initially gambled for fun but got addicted and ran into debt and other gambling-related problems. Conversely, some gamblers gamble with the hope of making money from it but they haven`t landed in any gambling-related crime. So, why is it so?
I know of a rich man who went broke because of gambling. He was indebted and sold almost all his properties just to gamble. He gave an account that he was doing that for fun to avoid being lonely but he got himself addicted and lost everything. So, sometimes a gambler who gambles for fun is still not safe. I think the reason we gamble is immaterial but our self-awareness is what matters. A gambler needs to stop when his budget has been exhausted.
People who can initially enjoy gambling as a way to have fun but because they don't pay attention to their limits and instead become addicted to gambling are people who really cannot consistently maintain self-control in gambling. They eventually become addicted to gambling because they lose control of themselves and gamble too often until they run out of all their money and finally decide to borrow money. These people cannot see how they should use gambling but will instead use gambling as a way to make money, thus making them deeper into gambling.
Perhaps we have seen how people whose lives are fine can use their money well until they finally get to know gambling and instead use their money to continue gambling. They feel they get something different from using gambling, so they decide to continue gambling. In the end, he became addicted to gambling and lost everything, so his life was not going well and was ruined because of gambling, where he could not return everything he had. He also couldn't try to get up again because he had fallen deeper into gambling and couldn't pull himself out of gambling.
The deeper the player gets into gambling, the harder the possibility of going for break. Whenever we do things that requires brain power, taking a break is superb! It uplifts the memory and helps the gambler to think better and recover from his gambling stress. When he gets back to gambling after the break, his moves will be different, more calculated than what he had in the past. The benefits are numerous, but the best of its benefits is the ability for the person to escape compulsive gambling. Staying away from gambling for a month or two will help the gambler to reevaluate his behaviors. If it tallies with what he was in the past. In absence of the break the gambler will be in a tough condition, knowing his problem, change of behavior, etc. He keeps going as you said, until it gets so injurious to his financial life.
That's what happens to someone so deep in gambling that he won't be able to stop himself from even taking a break from gambling. He will not know how to calm himself from the stress caused by the defeat he experienced. He only wants to continue gambling if he still has money because he will assume that he still has a chance to win the gambling game with the remaining money. But it turns out he lost all his money, which meant he couldn't win and had to bear all the losses he experienced. Many people end up becoming addicted gamblers as a result of not being able to use gambling properly because they gamble excessively and cannot control themselves when gambling. That was a big mistake they made because they couldn't control themselves when gambling, so they were forced to accept the consequences, and no one knew what would happen to them. If they can realize it and intend to correct their mistakes, it can give them a second chance to recover. But if not, they will just be in a gambling addiction, and no one knows when they will be able to recover from their gambling addiction.
