What is exactly meant and understood by this "personal enjoyment" generic category? Is it one feeling or there are many? What do people actually feel when gambling with motives other than purely financial? What do they get out of it? My take is that they are feeling in control of their fate, even if only for very brief moments. Simply put, that they are not losers, and luck is on their side, at least sometimes. Indeed, we all know that this feeling is fleeting and false overall, but it is so nice and pleasant that we are ready to pay for it, up to a point where we get addicted to it
So what's your take on this? What's in the game for those of us who are not looking for anything other than personal enjoyment and amusement? Be specific!
I think that you've described it perfectly - to get that momentary hit of dopamine.
It's obvious that people do it for financial reasons as well, but at the end of the day, that is not what most people look for (unless you're one of the people who see gambling as a means to recover losses from elsewhere, like trading). Especially lurkers on dice sites, they're obviously not influenced much by finances.
Honestly, in the more extreme cases, it is a pure, unadulterated addiction to chemicals produced in your brain - that is all.
Gambling is more like chemicals that could intoxicate our brains? Well on this opinion mate, I guess the raging toxicity is with the emotional management of a person. There's nothing to do with addiction, and if people happened to be someone like those addicted persom, I think he needs a rehabilitation to control thing over and out.