As a matter of fact, I think anyone gambling should always have the mind set that what they are playing is a game of luck and not some sort of investment that can guarantee a certain cool APY. Gambling is not a side hustle and not also a source of income. Just last week, I lost more than $20 in different bets which among all my bets last week, I didn't even win any one. So, does it mean if I took it as a side hustle or source of income, I will even be disappointed as well, but I don't.
Although in gambling there are opportunities to be able to benefit, but indeed this is not something that can be used as one of our hopes, maybe more precisely we should only do it limited to the game with good benefits or loss that occurs then just accept it. Very vulnerable to addiction in my opinion if making or considers gambling become one of the side jobs or even sources of income.
Yes, there's possibility that one can be very lucky and have a huge win which they can just use the money for a very important stuff after winning but I guess that such luck is rare. For example, I have a game that I staked on last week Sunday, it's an accumulation of 40 matches which gave me about 1.5k odds and I used $1 to stake on that game which gave a potential win of $65k. About 9 games have already played as predicted and the rest of the 31 games will happen in the coming week. If luck runs perfectly and all that game go as predicted, then I will win a huge amount but it's rare for such luck to happen.