How to teach such people?
When I wrote about losing cards, I had in mind exactly these consequences: in my country, it is not the police who will knock out debts, but people from another sphere. But when sitting at the gaming table, a person always chooses what is important to him—money or family—and how to behave in case of loss.
Correct, In my country too, police does not go for debt recovery, and that makes it riskier since the matter is left in the hands of the casino to handle and I trust them to handle such issues in a biased manner.
About choices at a gaming table, being able to nurse those thoughts depends on your level of addiction in gambling, you can only nurse rational thoughts when you are not yet eaten up by your gambling obsession, but my dear when you have crossed the Capricorn in gambling addiction, all rational thoughts are erased from your mind and your only mindset is about chasing the casino in any way possible. Those guys are just like drug addicts, they only think about the action and not at all about the reaction from their action.