Don Johnson is one of those who made fortune out of gambling, winning $15m playing Blackjack. He is only one of those who were lucky enough to make millions out of such activity so we cannot really say that no one is winning in gambling. It all depends on your luck and decision-making, but the bottomline is luck. But for sure, only few people are lucky enough to win and majority are losing.
We should define first what is rich means to us.. I mean one can be rich in gambling but if he is still gambling he might lose that money in the end, of there are people who won big money, they become rich and then they stop and bring that money somewhere else probably to start a business or something like that.
Winning hundreds of thousand dollars is enough I think, of a winning, to call a gambler winning big time in from gambling and those who would be called "rich" are those who reached millions of dollars from gambling. There's no basis with this, but I think such value is valid enough. Having a business out of the profit earned from gambling is another thing because that depends on the gambler. Not all people would engage to business upon winning, some people would stick with gambling.
Since we believe that there are people who become rich in gambling or they are making a living in gambling
Can you please share at least one person who made that, and please put some proof.
Guess you're just asking this question for asking sake since googling can provide you with all the answers you need. I could call names of people I know but you meant not know them since their success story aren't as global as other and they mainly are people from my geographical location (country men).
Rich as a word is also subjective to individual interpretation since $1000 could make me rich in some country while that's pocket money in other countries. If we haven't recorded any success story of individuals who have become rich respectively in their country then I doubt the industry would have been this big since majority of its patronizers are only after becoming rich.
I don't know but i think, he is pointing out those who won "big time" and that's it. There's no need to focus on his choice of words, to be honest.