not sure how easy it is to overcome poverty, the thing is that people who are intelligent and work hard are able to do it
so many stories of rags to riches, why it couldn't be you?
chasing losses and not managing risk are probably some of the biggest villains for gamblers.
Poverty or rags to riches story shouldn't be a drive for gambling as such doesn't and may not happen all the time, infact it's one out of every many cases, sometimes it may take years to record such and even the person involved will be observed to have been probably doing something else and got that lucky, may not even be a skilled and experienced gambler so if you are gambling with that at the back of your mind, you may get to the point of even chasing losses actually so it's best to gamble without such expectations and hope, they way you get to have almost little to nothing to really bother about.