Some people always get this wrong, not everything is relating to a spiritual issue especially gambling, it's more relating to a mental issue than something spiritual for instance you shouldn't be referring an addicted gambler to the church or spiritual home for prayers, rather such cases should be handled by a mental health practitioner, psychologist or the rightful professionals to handle the situation, your spiritual leader or teacher is just a religious leader meant to handle spiritual cases and not the right one to handle such cases, I don't know about other societies but I've seen people in my region make such errors and it needs to be addressed.
So, i normally feel some type of ways when I read writeups that resonate with the topic in question... It pushes me into asking series of questions like -- are people really this daft in the specific regions where the write-ups are often made? Are they really ready for a discussion or they just want to dump their own fallacious beliefs on everyone else? Are they on a spell to not realize how delusional it becomes when you decide to alter the matters of life with divinity?
Religion has eaten so deep into people in the 21th century, that they don't even recognize who to consult and what to do in some situations. The only reason why they act that way is because some actually feel like a "god" was always behind and in support of them throughout their journey.
Religion is a very subjective topic as no one can say there's an absolute truth that you can follow. Anyone can follow their own beliefs but he can't dictate it to others to follow as well. So we are free to choose what we want to believe, but we can't push this to others. After all, these beliefs are just created by humans. And so we can't say that the belief of someone is the truth for all.
Some people just need to wake up. I mean, they need to understand the fact that when you get addicted to gambling, it has nothing to do with spirituality but can be traced back down to the personality of that gambler. They were the ones who lost control, which led to getting addicted, and they should be treated by those who specialise in mental health. If there is anything that should be linked to gambling addiction, it should be drugs, as recent research shows that there are drugs that could affect someone and also increase someone's urge to gamble.
Well, people will make a connection to something even if there's no connection at all. They want to blame it to something. Hence, they want to find some links. Anyway, it is how they think that will affect such decision. Be logical with your approach and you may have better outcome with your decisions. For me, if there's no logic behind it, then don't do it.