I experienced what is called "beginners luck". I won some substantial money, but convinced myself I was an expert and could never lose...until I did.
Maybe this kind of illusion is what deceives many by the kind of first experience they are having towards gambling on tier first attempt on it, if we make win for the very first time and got impressed doesn't means that every other time we will be gambling will also have to be the same experience, we are to be more careful in times like this, because the moment we have the mind of making more win and it is not coming again as before then we are going to lose hope to start chasing after the mosses we've already made and this will only worsen the whole situation.
And everyone did fall for it, in the beginning majority here could have won a lot of money and we all know that we can replicate it or produce that big win and so we continue to gamble and the next thing we know, we are already addicted by it.
Of course, we continue to still gamble up to this day, and maybe some of us here have matured enough and control our gambling and play with the money that we can afford to lose. Or there are gambling who become addict, but the good thing is that we have a choice, we can either stop and quit, and not go to the process of having problems in the future, whether financially or emotionally.