On that note, it means that your willingness to sell your belongings already a sign that your engagement inside gambling is already deep and that's a sign of a person that will end up getting addicted, it's a hard thing to control when your willingness to entertain your lust and desire to keep playing whatever the cost will harm you or will lead you in suffering in the long run.
It should be more on entertainment and contentment, being responsible always accompany by precautions, and it should be both mentality and financially.
If you are exceeding, then you need to reset everything or better to pause for a while and re-assess, else, the chance of failing to control always has the bad side effects.
In fact, indeed everyone will justify any means to be able to fulfill their desires in gambling. One of the factors that indicates someone will arrive at a period of addiction is when they try their best to sell some of the valuable items they have so they can have capital to gamble, and this will continue until they lose everything they have. After that, I think the self-control factor will not have too much effect on those who are already addicted, because it is evident that most of them cannot survive taking the time not to gamble. The hope for a win is indeed very high but they always believe that it is only about luck where they will be able to win the game when luck comes. I am not forbidding someone from being active in gambling but it would be better for them to at least take some time to rest.