Without the acceptance that he had addicted to gambling, he will not listen to other people that suggests him to cure his gambling addiction. Other people will difficult to asks him to go to rehabilitation center because he will refuse to go that place. He will consider that everything still fine and he can control himself but it is not. He will only gets deeper in gambling without have a chance to solve his problem.
Gambling addiction is a habit caused by total dependence on gambling as the only source of hope for survival, of which most times when you gamble and lose, you ought to have been wise enough to stop for the day, but due to the addition, such people never always mind simply because they are lost in the gambling reigm. Which means most times a person do not need to accept the fact that he has changed or willing to change before he could be taken to rehab for habilitation, as many could recover from that addiction while still in the recovery process.