When I started gambling my mindset is solely about winning some cash to better my life but the more I gamble, the more that idea shifts. The money no longer satisfies my initial goal but the idea of winning does.
If you don't care about money and all you care about is to beat I'm sorry to say it's not possible, the house always wins that's true, this is the reason why we are advised to only play with money that we can afford to lose, because even if you have a large of money, you still not going to beat the house, you can win sometimes but the casinos wins most of the times.
But even with those ideals in play, why would a millionaire start gambling in the first place?
so why would a rich athlete or politician become so addictive to gambling?
I think socialization+joy+drinking+gambling is satisfaction to them. What do you think?
Rich and popular people play for the thrills when you have a lot of money you just want challenges and gambling is a platform where the rich and the famous challenge and try to boast or inflate their ego by trying to beat the house, apart from socializing from other rich and famous physical casinos are good venues for them to show off.