Amazing some people can build a business for $1000 while some people spend this money for their lunch and dinner... If $1000 is a life changing money for you then you shouldn't be gambling with that money. I don't know what kind of a business can you start with $1000 but if you really think it is lucrative then you should do it right away. You can buy a laptop and start your own software engineering company maybe?  What is the ROI of that business you start for $1000 anyway? Can it make $1000 a year? If  you invest in stocks it will only return $50-100 dividends annually...

It is either you are a high staker in the gambling or the $1,000 lost is as little not to be compared to your income rate that is why you are not moved by when this guy couldn't stand the fact that he lost $1,000 in the gamble. Well maybe I should recall to you that as financial levels differs so also we know the little and big amounts of funds we could be found as treasures which centrally depends on our incomes rate.
This is a local gambling in question and we are talking about a fund in a hard currency of $1,000 that is equivalent to #1,690,000 to his traditional currency. I guess you see a million plus is involved here. Haha.
This just to let you know how valuable the lost fund is and how such amount could attain a lucrative level of businesses within his locality considering that it was also a borrowed fund for a business purpose just as you are aware.