I personally stop gambling the time when the transaction fee is insanely high. It cost 15$ for transferring funds in a slow mode which is troublesome for a small-time gambler like me. I think the high fee recently affects small-time gamblers and those who withdraw funds from their casino balance. Whales are probably not affected by this since it's a one-time payment and it's nothing compared to their huge balance.
What are you using to get the statistics on how the activity of gamblers doesn't change on a specific time? I'm interested to have a data analysis on the gambler's behaviour during high fees or crypto market dumping/pumping.
So hard to gamble in that situation knowing that we need to pay huge fees just to make transaction push faster and that time its not really worth it to send anything on any casino since at the time we deposit we already lose a huge part of our capital thru fees we need to spend.
Also maybe other especially those whales seek for alternative coin to deposit since there are various option to choose since for sure those fees cannot stop them to play as they have money to spend on other alts available on some casinos.
If we can afford it and we are very itchy to gamble, why not? But If we can wait, then we can continue sending the money in low-priority mode to save some fees. We might lose a good chunk of coins during the depositing process but we never know, what if we got lucky and hit that huge multiplier that we always look for?
It should be enough to forget what you spent earlier and maybe next time, we will now be motivated to play more during a network issue because we think we are lucky during these times. I don't think Whales seeks for Altcoins. There is no need for them to do it since they can always afford the fees in Bitcoin no matter how high it is.