shouldn't holidays be about the family? if you are gambling during the holiday and not spending time with your family i would suggest you to stop and use this season to bond with your family you can go gamble the whole year and leave a few days off to just spend time with your family life is so short you will soon realize that there are some moments in life where you should have just used that time to be with your family i know that it is also vacation and you probably have a lot of money at this time but you can go gambling after the new year but christmas and new years celebration is for the family
This period is really the time to spend with family and loved ones, especially for those whose work doesn't always give them enough time to spend with their people, but for those who are always free and live with their family, they might not treat this period much differently unless for the celebrations.
For those who will have the time and don't get occupied with family, I don't see anything wrong with them gambling that period as long as they can afford the time and it won't distract them from anything. These days, it doesn't take much to gamble; any free period can be used, maybe 30 minutes or an hour a day.