Why not use that money for trading if your goal is to increase your capital gradually? I don't think gambling is the right way to do that, even if you're playing in provably fair games. Trading still has an element of uncertainty, for sure, but you can do many things to cut losses, take more profits, etc. On top of that, your definition of gambling doesn't seem to align with what most people believe in this forum either.
Yeah agree. I recently got into investing and its been a rough lesson but precisely because trading is not gambling i can learn from it and earn more in the future. Gambling there is no real lesson to learn, just to try again or not. The complete randomness of gambling though it what also makes it fun.