Cryptocurrency gambling can be seen as similar to gambling at a casino in the sense that both involve risking something of value in order to gain something else of value.
I think two things were involved here, its either you are not getting it right or you are not being able to convey yourself to the extent that one can understand the exact point your bringing out, gambling is not crypto trading, in gambling, we can make use of either fiat or cryptocurrency to play our bets, this does not have to be whether the kind of casino being used determined your differences, all you do is to chose the platform to use for gambling, either online or by physical, also know that the physical casinos accept fiat mostly unlike the online platforms which accepts for the use of cryptos.