It should be noted that gambling needs to be viewed as nothing more than a form of entertainment. Back in the day, formal engineering schools offered elective courses on the mathematics of gambling. Just know that if you partake in the activity in short stints long-term, they have it so rigged that it is mathematically impossible to yield net gains long-term.

Personally, I think gambling is an atrocious activity. I am not religious in any way, either. I just think it is a horrible activity from a moral standpoint. Also, people who have gambling addiction do actually have one of the worst and self-destructive addictions out there.

There are other ways to gamble in life without actually gambling.