I know everyone has played gambling and have experience the losses and the winnings. Some may have won life changing money from gambling while other may have lost their life savings through gambling.
It will be nice if everyone can tell if the gambling has been lucky for them or the gambling have made their life even more miserable than before ?
People come in gambling having big dreams, have you seen your dreams full filled or you have face the biggest nightmare of your life ?
Those two scenarios are too extreme, the vast majority of the gamblers out there will experiment something on the middle, basically gambling did not ruin them but it did not brought them fortune either, gambling for them is just something they do to obtain some fun and they are willing to pay some money to obtain it.
In my case years ago I played poker and I was able to breakeven, while on the rest of the games I am on the red, but the amount of money I have lost over the years is minimal and it does not affect my finances at all.