Players who use gambling to forget their current life situation are like some alcoholics. They may end up in compulsive gambling because they wouldn't want to face reality. Being this type of gambler can be very risky. Yet, many players fall into this category and quickly get disappointed when gambling isn't favorable. Imagine if they begin to feel sad over their losses. That means the player won't have any other activity to run to when having a bad day.
Very risky indeed, however I even wonder why somebody would even consider gambling in other to forget there current situation they are actually into because it may likely do them more harm than good, though in as much as going into alcoholics is not also good but in the case of comparing the both I think alcoholics is somehow considerable because the person can only get themselves drunk but will not be able to spend too much but in gambling the moment the person sees it as a way to forget some of there burdens that's when they would be gradually droning into gambling and it will get to an extend were the person can lose a lot of things they never imagine to lose.