This thread reminds me of my late Grandmother. She wasn't a gambler but she was addicted to the Lotto.
Every week she bought maybe 10-20 tickets and almost never won anything greater than $10. After buying every ticket should would pray for it to be the winning ticket, it never was. So there is proof that there is no such thing as a gambling god.
Her friends were also addicted to the Lotto and they haven't won anything either. I think one of them won like $1000 once and basically re-spent it buying more Lotto tickets and lost it all again.
Gambling and lotto will be the same thing because you spend money and expect to get more money back as the results so this will be considered as a gambling addict too. Anyway for lotto, I believe it is much more harder than you you really do on gambling because the chance is too low to hit the jackpot but many of them are selling like an invalid lotto that is why I seldom play of this lotto, not all lottos are really fair though. Only play like powerball which have proof that they are paying for real