This statement is not just inaccurate, it also shows you do not understand gambling or see people's reactions to it. To make you understand at the simplest, I've seen people who lost or won big with gambling on TV saying they followed their instinct, could it be that they do not know the meaning of instinct? Instinct is synonymous with intuition, so I see your statement as inappropriate when many gamblers are actually identified with it. Except you are not an active gambler, especially the casino branch of it, you will use your instinct at some point, if not all the time.

Please read: 1. What Reuters has to say.
                   2. https://jacknjillive.com/2014/02/gamblers-instinct/