I agree completely with you that gamble is truly a good short cut to the part that lead to poverty because if you check the rate of wining in Gambling related activities the winning margin is nothing to compare with the losing percentage because with the rate people has been Gambling if everyone has been wining like that the rate of poverty must have been reduced to an extent in the society, morally speaking if you win big on Gambling you can't comfortable advise your younger generation to go into gambling when you're been asked of advise as an elderly person so Gambling is something that people should not put all their hopes on
The level of defeat and victory is certainly different, for players they only have a victory with a small chance while for defeat the chance is big, some people say that gambling is said to be 50/50 but in my opinion it is not like that because in any case the chance of winning is certainly smaller than the chance of winning. And gambling is not a shortcut to becoming poor, maybe this only applies to people who do gambling with the aim of seeking profit.
For people who do gambling with the aim of having fun I think this does not apply, because they are only looking for entertainment alone by having good self-control so as not to cause major problems.