Have you ever wonder why even there are a lot of negative things gambling bought, it still doesnt leave us ? Is that so, gambling has been a part of our culture , even you have plenty or not. Rich people often socialize in the form of casino, while the poor are contented on country games with lower bets. I, as a person living on a third world country, witnessed how gambling form our culture. Town celebrations or "fiesta" are not complete without low cost gambling houses called "perya" where you can bet starting from almost $.02 and above. Every corner of the street has some kids playing coin games and even a wake makes its company awake using card games. Weird isnt it? How about in your country?
Ofcourse gambling is a part of a culture, there are huge museums about Texas Holde'm poker in the USA.
I can say that gambling has been a strong part of the culture of some cards, for an example we can see the USA, that has a large city that is being driven by gambling only, Las Vegas wouldn't exist if gambling was disallowed, same goes for cities like Monaco.
Gambling was started to take a place long years ago, and our whole life is being impacted by this, it's really ironic that even after thousends of years we are unable to decide whether gambling is good or not, or shall we accept it or not.