The only period you can say you were successful in chasing your losses is only when you win and withdraw them you used the money to do something important, that's why you can say your loses was recovered successfully. Outside that, you just lost more, a gambler who's a type that chase their loses always ended up losing everything. It's a lucky something that you must be careful when dealing with it, there are gamblers that their luck is very rare, so if you noticed that you such type you must be careful with the way you gamble. The gamble lost everything because he was greedy, if not that he was greedy, he would have be satisfied after winning plus the amount he lost previously.