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.
Some folk need to stop deceiving themselves and admit to themselves that they are addicted to it , because you will only be able to solve the your problems when you notice and admit it . Because some folk are fond of that they hardly admit that they are addicted. You being addicted is due to your mindset, if you are the type that just want to get rich via gambling and you believe that you can achieve it by gambling frequently in order to hit the jackpot, which is actually wrong because such can initiates gambling addiction , so better to play it self and do it for fun and while you are gambling for fun there are still chances of you hitting the jackpot.