Regardless if you playing for fun, or playing for the profits, if you play beyond the normal level you are expected to play, and you get so involved, you can become addicted, same ways if you win or you lose in gambling you can still be addicted.
What matters is how you gambling, and not or what you get from gambling, whatever you do too much is already addictions, when it becomes uncontrollably done multiple times
Exactly. If you gamble maximum of your time like it’s an abuse already, whether it’s a win or loss, that already is a proof that you are a gambling addict. You don’t set limits when it comes to your money and time, and you gamble all you want to, like almost 24/7 as long as you have funds to bet, that only shows your gambling addiction is extreme.
However, mostly, those who fall for addiction are those who gamble for profits, and even if they lose or win, they will never stop gambling because they thought gambling more will attract more profits to win.