^ Definitely right, just like spending bucks for buying tickets and popcorn in watching movies. How about renting a girl in a club and spend a lot of your money just for entertainment in your self and have fun. Kinda wasting money but actually you can afford it and why not.
Gambling is similar to that if you are entertained on this very well, surely you will come back and willingly to spend as long as you will have have a fun activity. Nevertheless, different people have a different reason, others have a double purpose. They gamble for fun at the same time hoping that they will earn a profit.
Have you done it before?

Agree, People nowadays always make a negative perspective on such things that have neutral aspects. So I can't blame them if they foresee gambling as wrongdoing due to to wasting money. Casino owners are really businessman, they tried to show gambling as a tool for profit, that's another reason why they keep betting even they're losing it. If people are informed and educated on probabilities and possibilities on outcomes then it'll serve as a guide, I think.
Maybe he is renting girls always to have fun instead of playing in gambling casino he realizes that having fun with girls is better. But for other people like me, I don't really need girls to have fun because I already have a wife so I don't need to spend to go outside just to find girls to have fun.
We know is a waste of money if you gamble that is why it depends on you how you manage your money when you are in a gambling casino. If you treat a gambling casino as entertainment then you are not wasting your money because you are spending just for fun. It's different on wasting money because you treat gambling as your 2nd source of earnings.