This is the simple truth, if you think about your financial status, you can hardly go wrong because at that point you will be gambling with what you can afford to lose. But if your mind is fixed on the potential win, you will not think straight because you will have the justification to do anything to achieve it. Most addicted gamblers started by looking at what they can achieve through gambling, forgetting that gambling is supposed to be mainly for passive income and not a source of income.
Of course this is the truth, but it's also the definition of gambling and risk for most of us. And others might dream of it, winning big and going home with that kind of money and change their financial status in life.
But it's very different from the reality, it's the unknown that we are betting here. We don't know what is the outcome of the game until at the last very minute. And then when things didn't go our way, then it's a hard and tough luck and then we are hit harder when we all know that we don't have any more money.