It's not a scam if you are doing it accordingly but when you start exceeding from how you percept things then it's start additional problem to the point that it will be a regretful experienced..
But is still not a scam then if you gamble more than needed

You just get addicted, not scammed
You are right, mate. Anyone that knows what scam truly means, will not call gambling a scam. If gambling was a scam, then it would be banned in almost all the country. There's no gambler that doesn't lose money but yet they don't refer to it as scam.