Me going home with empty pocket is not very entertaining at all. I don't think it would before majority of the people who has wife and kids. It may be for the rich who are not having money problems but finance is always the reason for wife and husbands quarrel, you get entertained in the casino but at home will not be entertaining.
The Chinese has distinctive look of things and gambling is among it but one reason gambling is ban in China is probably because gambling produces more dysfunctional families so they created an isolated place where only rich are able to gamble.
If you are a family man, and yet your focus is still on gambling, clearly it will create a huge problem especially if you lose all your hard-earned money which is supposedly intended to fund for family expenses. Irresponsible gamblers are mostly the cause of a broken family since they cannot prioritize their families anymore and leave them hungry almost all the time. With this case, China is right to ban gambling. However, gambling as a part of Chinese tradition, I think that should only be practiced occasionally when there are reasons to celebrate, but not that people should fall into gambling addiction.