That's really bad because if gambling is affecting you so much then you are better off not gambling.
You should never be so much emotional when you are gambling and if you can't control your emotions then gambling is not for you.
Exactly, she would have left gambling before it shocked her for throat. And as others as said but I don't know if that can work out for her, she would have set a gambling limit for her to play gamble every day. And one thing I also noticed in the setting of gambling limit is that, it would not work in for addicted gambler. I am also suspecting that she used all the savings to gamble on that faithful day and that was she cried a lot in the public for notificatiion.
I personally think it is mostly because of revenge gambling. She would have lost a little earlier and in order to recover the losses she gambled more than she could lose.
When she lost the gamble she lost her mind as well and then broke out into tears. Every gambler faces one turning point where he/she stops gambling.
May be this one is for her and I hope she understands her mistake and takes steps to avoid it.