One of the primary reasons why people stay addicted for long is to win big. They think a big win will solve financial and all other problems in their lives.
For this very man greed was his problem £20000 is a huge sum that can afford a very lucrative business. Giving such huge amount on gambling shows his high level of greed and people of this kind can do anything just to make money not minding if it's legal or not. I wish he recovers soonest because this can cause a man to commit sucide.
but he regrets this the rest of his life , meaning he is also a small time gambler who only tries his chance of a lifetime but failed . maybe this will be remembered all the moment of his precious life how he managed to lose a amount in which can change his life for goodness if chooses the right decision.
Agree, maybe from the perspective of outsiders like us and reading information from different countries, this amount can be a very large number but let's take the stance of one person going to work in high-income developed countries, the money this man is losing can only be a few years of savings and he will never forgive himself and never gamble again. Such a lesson will help a man grow up and know how to work hard to earn money, the fact that he loses so little and stays so long gambling, sometimes it will be worse than the money he is losing right now