We will only playing gambling with our spare cash and not takes too long because we care with our money and don't want to see the loss. Recovering the loss will not be a good idea because we can lose more money and many people already experienced that.
This where addiction always start at the cost of trying to regain what we have lost we often sink down into addiction which is might be very hard to control in the future so that best to is to set a restriction to myself to limit gambling for the moment till otherwise if not I don't see any good reason to continue gambling when you are on lose. Over time people fails to understand it rather will always engaged themselves into gambling the more thinking continuously gambling will increase their chances of making winning in time to come since they don't consider their lost rather would say when they win their lost will be covered from their winning.
Yes, the addiction will start when a gambler doesn't realize that he must stop immediately before everything becomes worst. When he loses in gambling games, he will not trying to recover his losses because he knows that can makes him losing more money. He knows that the addiction can comes without he realizes and if he tempting with the gambling more than he can afford, he will gets addicted to gambling and he will forget with his limitations. Having limitations while playing gambling is necessary so that can help us to control our gambling activity and we don't have to face a bad experiences like what other gamblers already gets. We will not involved too deep in gambling because we don't want to gets addicted to gambling. We know how danger the addiction to gambling so we will always preventing.