I agree that it is better to consider gambling as having fun, rather that a way to earn money. However, if you only lose in gambling, it is hardly be called fun. You have to win from time to time to keep yourself interested and motivated. I am not a gambler, as far as I can say. I tried to play several times and only once was I lucky enough to make 1300$ from my 50$ bonus-code. Unfortunately, I lost every dollar from that sum, because I kept playing and didn't know when to stop. That was actually my first time to play in an online casino, and I didn't manage to win such amount again. I only have won from 100$ to 300$ after that first attempt.
If you should win from time to time, that will attract you deeper in gambling while that can make you deposit more and more money because you want to win. Indeed, that can make you interested and motivated but you must realize that can also make you become addicted to gambling and difficult to let gambling go. You already have that experienced so you know how it feels to see the losing comes to you without you can stop yourself.
If you already lose, you can accept that lose because you will consider that is the price you will pay when you use gambling for have fun. You have the other option that will not make you lose the money but you still choose gambling to have fun so you must realize the risks and makes you be careful when gambling.
Well for me in setting a strategy to increase Bet or decrease Bet, we need to win from our deposit capital first. For example, you make a deposit of $50 where in every manual spin you get a profit and also get FS accidentally, so with luck it will increase your balance from the FS win you get.
Well if that happens, then the game journey for the next spin I will increase the bet and keep the initial capital untouched, if it is touched then I will follow the bet to the initial pattern or $0.2 per spin.
However, sometimes it is not in line with my expectations, so sometimes I can't control my emotions and that's when I experience defeat. But if the mind is calm and can control emotions then it will be easy to play a pattern in increasing bets or decreasing bets when the spin is not profitable.
I am also like you, I used to just want to have fun but after addiction became one with my body then I often gambled every week, or 3 times a week or even more. I think if you are not addicted you can say that but if you are addicted to gambling then you will gamble more actively than before.
That is difficult to increase our capital first before we can increase or decrease our bet. We will not know when we can win in gambling but we will have a big chance to lose the money. That will depend on how good our luck at that time so we can win more money and also increase our capital.
But if we can not stop ourselves from gambling after we have lose the money, that will make us desperate and frustrate because we already lose the money without win. That can make us lose control and in the end, that can make us spend all of the money we have.
When we lose control, we will forget about limiting ourselves in the gambling. We will want to chase the win without thinks that we already lose much money.