One of the fastest ways to get yourself addicted is when you have already settled with the believe that, gambling is a sure source of income. No matter how careful a gambler can be, he'll definitely experience loses and majority of gamblers have more lose than wins. That is to explain how difficult making money from gambling can be. Sometimes out of the numerous loses you have experienced, you'll just get lucky and win, and that could make you feel there are better days ahead, meanwhile you're still definitely going to be experiencing more loses as time goes on. The best way to gamble sadly is when you gamble with what you can afford to lose and it'll not affect your financial schedule or any other financial budget.
No doubt if making gambling as a source of income can makes someone become addicted. He will playing gambling without thinks about stopping his gambling activities. He will lose his carefulness because he thinks that gambling is fun and gives him more chances to win.
If he realizes that many gamblers already lose their money, he will not takes risks in gambling. He will always be careful playing gambling and only use some money to gambling. He doesn't want to chase winning or recover his losses because he knows that can lead him lose more money.
That is why we must only use the money we can afford to lose in gambling. With self control, we prevents the lose and will not be bigger because we really want to prevents it. We know that gambling is just for fun so we don't have any intention to chase the winning and only enjoy our time.