If a gambling addicts moves to a rural area where their is no access to Internet for sure it will stop the addict from playing gambling at the moment but it doesn't mean that if the founds his self out from the environment to a place where he will have access to online and physical gambling he will not go back to gambling lifestyle.
The gambling mindset is still there he still can remember his sessions his wins the excitement gambling generates and he will try to replicate that feeling by playing cards with people, if you are an addict you will use your imagination to replicate the feelings, if there is a will there is a way for gambling addict, the absence will just make him misses the dopamine.
At least it will decrease his addict rather than always focusing with real gambling that can make him become poor if he was always doing something wrong. This is better to make people to feel less addicted with gambling at least you can play card as long as possible caused by that's free. Replicating feeling in gambling doesn't matter a lot as long as you are only focusing to play the card.