I spent most of my free time on online gambling site, but only a small part of that time I used to gamble. Most of the time I use to chat with other users, especially users from my country. And to be honest, I have fun talking to them even though I don't know them personally.
Like you are using this gambling platform for connectivity purpose. This is strange because pope never talk much at such platforms. They have got some objectives and tasks assigned they always try to fulfil them within time limit. So often they ignore such talkative user that tries to connect to them without any personal or business meeting. But if you do this, amazing.