If we have to put those into context, it’s largely based on, what you’ve got left after the loss. That’s where you determine the worth of the loss from. It doesn’t really matter if it were your spare cash or not but, when you haven’t got much left, even the rich guy would seem poor about a $1k loss.
The dollar Alice is based on the holding person,for the people who had 1000$ in their wallet.The dollar value of 5-10$ is not big one.If they lose that money,this will not affect him in the financial problems.But for the poor gamblers who had 50$-100$ in the bank balance for them 5-10$ would be the big money.So the loss value would differ from person to person,the recovery from the loss also very important one.Because the gamblers should take risk based on the value of money holdings,if they take beyond the limit.This will affect them in financially and mentally weak.