Poor people should gamble with little amount of money that they can avoid losing and not with funds for basic needs if not it will affect them negatively. It is when you think that gambling is a means of making profit that you are in a big problem, because they little that you have would be taken away from you by the casino no matter how rich you are. Gambling is a road to poverty and destruction when done in the proper way because it will ruin and frustrate you when you become addicted. I have a friend who got broke due to excessive gambling, and he vowed not to gamble for the rest of his life and when i asked him why, he said that gambling have deprived from a lot of opportunities. I told him that it wasn't gamble but it was his desperation of make profit from where he didn't sow from.
It is better poor gamble should not have gamble to avoid losing their money so they can buy food and fills their needs. There is no guarantee for them to win but losing the money and if that is happen, they will difficult to buy food which is their primary needs. Gambling is not short cut to solve poverty because they can lose and bankrupt anytime. They should think about how if they become addicted to gambling but they don't have money to fills their gambling habit. They will only get more and more problem if they still playing gambling and that will makes them depression.