There are so many gamblers in this virtual world. Some can still control themselves, and there are also who can not control themselves when they are already in the form of the long table with a full of card any bet of different gamblers, and those are considered as Compulsive gambling.
First things first, compulsive gambling is the uncontrollable eagerness on gambling, even though you keep on losing the game, you forgot to do some valuable things than gambling and forgetting to spend your spare time with your family and in a way that you don't mind how much money you spend and how much money you already to the game.
There are times that whenever your family and your friend advise to you about stopping on gamble, you keep on ignoring them, you do not listen to them anymore even though they care so much to you and when you deny them then you may consider yourself having a compulsive gambling disorder, you don't care anymore to anyone, the only thing you want is gambling.
I suggest that if you feel that you are like that, you may visit some professionals to help you.
Some are hard to control them self because once they are losing big money they want it to come back there losses so they still in gambling. But some are have control they know when to stop and they know when they gamble again. Its been hard once you get addicted on gambling you gonna be hard to stop it.
Some people are just persistent, some people just don't like to quit so easily. There are pushers, people who push until they get what they want. Sometimes watching from a side and criticize is bad thing to do, standing on a side and talking what is good and what is bad. I hate commentators who never got their hands dirty, commentators who never tried anything.
Generally people should do what they wish to do, if you like to gamble and to spend money on gambling it's your thing. Others can dislike that, they can try to stop you, but that will not work, in long run there will be just more tension between that will lead to many problems.
Understanding is the key of successful relationship. I gamble every day, today I am free, I drink a beer and play poker cash hands, my wife understands me, even if I get drunk and lose money.
You should never trust any commentators especially if they don't have any experience in what you are doing. The only thing you need to change when you realized that you have a problem in yourself, Deep realization will help you to change as for my experience. I also have experience getting drunk while playing gambling before and the outcome is always negative, Tried to stop that few times and I successfully get rid of that habit of mine, I can now still control myself from playing gambling and when I play I don't do the things that I know will bring negative things to my gambling activity.