When you come back there again to restore your lost money then you become very addicted. So if you consider gambling as a means of earning money then you are a real gambler, you find a way to control yourself.
This has being a constant reminder to all gamblers to gamble without intentions of earning money but basically even without getting anything from it people get hooked along the line. But then i quote you wrong saying earning money from gambling makes you a real gambler. Absolutely it doesn't the fact that you gamble and know when to stop makes you a real gambler.
Even for those that have a come back to continue in gambling after they made a big win, if care is not taken, they can end everything back to gambling before they realized, for any gambler to fully enjoy gambling without misplaced priority, then they have to clear there mind that they must always win in gambling or depend on it for a survival, sometimes gambling could be disappointing and we must understand that people often lose than wining in gambling.
It's clear that gambling is all about disappointment, unless that you make use of your initiative very well, because gambling is all about understanding, people that gambles and win, if they didn't take care they will lose every they won through gambling more, sometimes it's greedy that makes some of us who is privileged to win in the gambling to lose whatever they gain or achieve so far in the gambling, so we need to understand such a thing in the gambling, we need to know that gambling is all about a personal plans, why some people what makes them to lose more is addiction, this two things is what that will make some people who a gambler to lose out what they has gambles before.