It is impossible for a person to earn from gambling and leave it for the rest of their life.
Beginner's luck is the most tempting kind of win. The gambler, if not conscious, can get trapped in gambling, and it becomes difficult for him or her to quit when there is still hope in their mind of winning again.
Gambling can be a never-ending storm for those who cannot control themselves.
rhymes very well with the title of this topic.
I know people who have won significant sums of money playing poker and haven't returned to a table in at least 20 years.
I've played games of chance in which I've won and have never returned to those games, and fortunately, that's the case for the average person.
At the end of this sectarian discussion, it's just a matter of statistics. Some people who win big understand it as a one-time event that happened and that's it. Others are probably more hooked on the game, but
there's no one-size-fits-all phrase like the one mentioned.