So am just curious to know if these little games are the one's that got to him or already developed such habit and to know if possible that the practice will continue elsewhere after leaving there when he lost the money and to look for means through gambling to recover it.
Yes people can get addicted to gambling through friendly game, people can get addicted to anything, I have seen people get addicted to drinking water. Addiction happens when you do not have control over your emotions for a particular thing and friendly games can still be considered gambling which we can get get addicted to. When someone loses from a friendly game and he goes home with a revengeful attitudes, he will later go back to gambling to try to win and when he loses he will become addicted and before you know, we'll be having a new gambling addicted person being developed. People do not just get born as a gambling addict, they develop the problem from different reasons and not wanting to be a loser can also be the reason. People that do not get it that you should accept defeat after you lose when gambling will end up being addicts to gambling and they can't stop it.