Note this the amount of money lost or won doesn't determine when gambling becomes problematic. Because many people believe that when you loose a specific amount of money in gambling them gambling is then problematic to a person. And other consider gambling to be problematic when it only give a person a financial problems, no I don't think so. What I consider problematic is not only when gambling cause you financial problem, but if gambling is interfering with individual's relationships, job, mental or physical health or any area of their life then gambling is problematic. So what about you guys what do you think? You contributions matters.
The matter of how much money lost is too much before it is considered a gambling problem is very subjective. Not everyone makes the same amount of money and not everyone has the same amount of bills and obligations in their life. A single young man who makes a decent paycheck working as an engineer or doctor is not going to have a problem unless he starts losing tens of thousands. An middle aged man who has a large family and a crappy, low income job is not going to be able to forgive himself for losing even 1000 dollars.
Personally, I think if you start feeling like the losses are having any kind of impact, no matter how significant, in your financial life then that is already a problem that needs to be dealt with before it gets out of control.