The reason why they are alot of sad stories concerning gambling on how gambling as ruin ones lives and that . Is due to the way most people approach gambling, like taken it as a means of earning or worse a means for them to get rich quick. Which is wrong , one should try and keep an healthy means of gambling.
In all, self-control is the key. No matter what your reason for gambling is, be it for fun or as a means of making money, if you don't have self-control, you will always end up on the wrong side, which is losing everything instead of making money from it. It only gets worse if the desire is primarily to earn from gambling, as a lack of control and the ambition to earn will lead the gambler straight to addiction before he or she can even realise it.