This is uncertain whether he will be able to earn the amount of money he lost by placing gambling bets in the future. Later he acted like a fool again by taking a loan and betting on gambling. I have lost gambling many times but later won but never won my lost money completely. I think you should only spend extra money on gambling because when you lose, the rest of the money will keep your family going. I have seen many people sell their wealth and gamble.
A similar thing that happened to you is capable of happening to anyone else, and this gambling thing that is seen today as a scheme to get some extra cash is nothing near that because no matter how lucky you are in the gambling space, you will hardly get back the same amount of money that you have lost in gambling back in the assessment of people that were very lucky to get a higher jackpot. You will see one or two bad things that will definitely affect them. Some might even leave a lavish life, spending all the money that they have, while others will definitely lose everything, either through rubbery or an orderly calamity that might affect them. Some might even die, and even if they win the jackpot, even if they keep gambling, they still won’t win. That is just how gambling works.
When people see gambling as a scheme to get some extra cash, they must realizes that will not easy to gets the wins money. Many people trying to do the same thing but most of them lose all of their money. If they can't realizes or understand for sure, they will gets deeper in gambling and the worst thing that can happens are they can becomes addicted to gambling and that means they will lose more money.
You should not playing gambling use too much money because there are no guarantee you can wins bigger money. But you can gets many problems from gambling such as losing all of your money, you can becomes addicted to gambling or you can lose everything including your life. When you lose your money in gambling, you should not thinks to gets that money back because that will be more difficult and the casino will not lets you doing that. You will increase your lose in gambling because you will not realizes how much money you already use to playing gambling.