They just waste their income that they use to playing gambling because they have a big expectation to make money from gambling. They think that they can solve poverty by playing gambling and make money will be their reason to playing gambling. They must know that they will burn their money in the gambling table while they can not get out from poverty and only lose their money. They must realize that gambling can not gives them money and solve poverty but they can bankrupt in anytime without taking too long. So they must not use gambling to make money and realize that they must keep their money to fills their daily needs. That will be the important thing for their life.
Many people fall into gambling with the hope of escaping poverty, believing it's a quick fix, only to find themselves even deeper in financial trouble. It's heartbreaking because this cycle often leads to losing what little they have left. If more people understood that gambling isn't a reliable way to improve their situation, they might look for other ways to build stability and security. Prioritizing daily needs and saving where possible are indeed much better paths toward a sustainable future.
I can tell you categorically that most people do know that gambling is not a way out of poverty, but they still will want to try their luck since they must have heard stories, or even come across people who have made a life changing amount of money through the same gambling.
A friend of mine whom I was advising to either quit gambling or perhaps, reduce how frequently he gambles because I discovered he was spending too much on the activity and it's not good for his financial health, I explained to him that gambling is not the way out of poverty, but can be a way into it actually if luck is not on his side, he told me that he will still try, that gambling is better than doing nothing, that there is the possiblity that he could as well be lucky and win an amount of money that could change his life forever.
This is the mindset that most gamblers usually have, not that they do not know that gambling is not a way out of poverty, they know,, but since the possibility of winning big money from gambling still exists, they would rather prefer and want to try their luck.