I tried searching for the best gambling stories and the ones that popped up were full of gambling recoveries. A lot of them highlighted of how gambling ruined their life but for some reason, usually one involving religion, they got better. I was expecting more of stories where a gambler won a significant amount. Extreme lucky kind of stories.
It got me thinking whether people think that gambling success stories can only be if you recover from gambling? Is that really the end goal? To rid of gambling as an activity?
If you want to see gamblers being successful and getting money out their sessions, then all you have to do is log into Twitter/X and follow accounts of lotteries and some casinos. They tend to highlight when some gambler using their services is having a very lucky session, pocketing hundreds or thousands or even millions of dollars at the time.
That is specially true with lotteries, it is a very good advertisement for lotteries to let people know they actually okey those who are extremely lucky.
I believe you simply are looking for gambling success stories in the wrong place OP, as the internet is full of them. They are rarer than stories about people losing all their money and regretting betting into gambling, but success stories do indeed exist.