Gambling is a part of every society but people of different societies take it in different ways. In developed countries people mostly play gambling for fun and enjoyment, but in underdeveloped country people consider gambling as the shortest way of making money, but I think that it is the shorter way to ruin your life special if you do not have control over your emotions.
This is of course applies to the majority in each of the types of countries not all.
In the underdeveloped countries point of view i saw in Venezuela how people would play any kind stupid and silly madeup gambling game to try to make easy money. It is interesting to see adults supposedly educated behave like cavemen, it is one luxury that those types of countries offer you in case you go do tourism to one, look carefully. Behind the made up stages for tourists.
Horses and sports are a common occurrence that people who is a bit more smart in those types of countries go to. However, they are not in position to lose and ends up being a really unnecessary risk.