People are willing to risk so much because they believe that no risk no gain sought of phrase, and as a result they can risk all they have at the moment just to be able to hit something big in return. But yet they fail to consider that without them being in luck for that day all their efforts could be going to waste leading to them losing all they are risking leaving them with nothing. Some gamblers can be so pathetic.
Truly, risks are worth taking but not to take the kind of risk that will downgrade you to 'lose your chair and sit on the floor' just because of the mentality that without risks that there will be no gain. Gambling is a game that if you don't truly understand its ethics, you will be among those that the society will caption as wayward but if you are someone that understands that this is something that no matter how smart you are, how learned you are, how experienced you are, it will still require luck to be progressive but if you have that urge of making it huge at all cost, you will spend more money and become a slave to gambling such that you can't even be able to help yourself anymore which the end result will always fall on addiction.