The true battleground is self-control and awareness. Understand your emotions and use them as a tool instead of letting them control you. What about gambling for fun? That's key. Enjoy, but maintain control. Maintain your composure, set sensible stakes, and never gamble to chase losses or earn a big payout. If it happens, you're losing. The crazy part is when you're having fun? You ironically make better choices and things work out better
It's true that we have to be able to maintain self-control, but I believe controlling emotions is difficult, especially when the results of the gambling are not good, and if the gambler cannot accept that then emotions will control everything. then losses and other bad impacts can no longer be avoided. So it is important to control yourself and control your emotions properly when gambling.
This is possibly going to work if the gambler has a strong Will and Mind to fight and put things in the right state in their minds and also make sure that their plans are worked out as they should, which entails the control of our minds. Who says we can't control it? Once we are disciplined and determined at the said time, before we know it, we will see it done easily as if it was our daily doing that demands not much stress or effort on our part. But the moment we see it as difficult, the more it becomes difficult which is what most gamblers are suffering from. It depends on what you feed the mind.