Things getting harder when addiction developed inside you, just like you said in an early stage that eagerness to keep playing will begin things out in you, if you dare not to do precautions to avoid getting hook then surely addiction will hit you and will generate bigger problems, it's always best to play with an intent to entertain yourself and just allocate spare money for your gambling.
That is why when it comes to seeing a small fault in ourselves, or something that is not normal we must pay attention to it, if it is something that indicates that we are going in the direction of addiction it must be stopped, and it is better to stop in time than to let an addiction develop, and the worst thing there is, those desires to gamble must go away at all costs, and the best way for me and what I recommend is when people control their money, by controlling their money they control absolutely everything , well it works for me.