I cannot speak for other people, but I am a very disciplined gambler. I have a weekly "entertainment" budget for gambling, so I make sure that I pay all my expenses first and then allow for a small portion of my remaining budget to go towards "gambling".
The problems start when you start to dive into the budget for the other things for which you have to pay for.... and when you use that for gambling. I hope other people will follow the same strategy to prevent "gambling addiction" problems.
Having a gambling budget is a good idea, some people do not see this with good eyes as they think that for a person to have some money destined to gambling already then that person must have some problems with their gambling, but in fact it is the opposite, those which have a budget for their gambling activities are the ones that have the most control over their gambling as if at any moment they spend their gambling budget then they stop gambling immediately and then do something else to entertain themselves.The problems start when you start to dive into the budget for the other things for which you have to pay for.... and when you use that for gambling. I hope other people will follow the same strategy to prevent "gambling addiction" problems.
I also said that to myself that I need to play with some budget, but guess what, it's not going to happen specially if you lost a lot in the beginning. So kudos for those who can play within budget, but that could be more on an exception rather the norm in gambling. So it's either no gambling at all instead of playing within a budget because it's really hard to control when you are in to it.