That's because the addict doesn't want to listen to others that advice them to reduce their gambling activity. They think that they are rights and don't have a problems while playing gambling but the truth is they have a serious problem that need to be solved immediately. If they still don't realizes about that, they will get deeper into gambling and difficult to gets away from gambling. That will gives more serious problems to them as they will be more difficult to realize their mistakes. But if somehow, they got a big loss and makes them losing many things in their lives, maybe they will realize about their mistakes and the regrets will arise and will tells about what they did so far. That will be a good moment for them to start realize that they must change themselves and fix the mistakes.
Because of its great influence on his ego, gamblers are very difficult to advise, even on various matters, and he will become increasingly confident in his behavior which he considers right, even though it would be a shame if that were allowed to happen. If it drags on, he will have many new problems in his life. .
And one day when he experienced a big problem and he was unable to solve it, he told about it to other people and he immediately realized it and tried to ask for good advice from other people.