If you know your limits and stick to it, you won't have problem with this activity. You will find out as well that you will enjoy playing if you have other things to consider such as loan or bills to pay at the end of your session.
Yes, and the most effective thing is to always keep an amount willing to lose in any case, whether it is in the casino or to make a sports bet, we must start from the fact that the most probable thing is that we will lose that money, we cannot have all our money to risk it , so that Should not be a problem, just play with what we can lose, that way it will not affect our daily life.
For me having a better understanding of gambling make risk lesser in gambling because if there is no understanding in gambling it is impossible for one to understand their is a need to stick to the limits that one can afford to lose. Understanding in gambling makes gambling easy and not of much risky. The first step that will be able to make a gambler to stick their amount that they can afford to lose in gambling is to have understanding of why it is important to stick to the amount you can afford, if you don't have the understanding it is impossible to gamble responsibly.