Something very similar happens with trading as well, in which if a person invest in shitcoins and they happen to earn money then they think that trading and investing is nowhere near as hard as they were told and they are incredible at it, then they keep investing pursuing those easy profits until they begin to lose, then they refuse to accept that they were lucky at the beginning of their journey and they spend the rest of their lives trying to recreate that early success they got.
For me, it's better that these people ended up in that experience. If loses now come, they will realized that everything is not that easy.
In trading, especially in the bull run, there are lot of people who are genious and ended up wrecked during a bear trend.
In gambling, there are lot of people who are also genious