It is not easy , it is a very ahrd thing to do. I can only say that when people say that it is easy, that means the person is not heavily addicted yet so he can let go of it easily. When someone is heavily addicted like me than doing that kind of thing will be hard. The only way is to gamble for fun with small amount
I'm not addicted to gambling for now, but I heard that everyone becomes more or less addicted to it with time. And I think if I will be a gambling addict one day I'll use your advice. It's not like I see this for the first time, of course I've seen similar ideas many times on this forum, and as long as many gamblers say the same thing I think it makes sense to listen to it.
No doubt it's hard to stop it, this whole thread is dedicated to this problem, and we are trying to find a solution here. One option, for example, is treating gambling as an entertainment only.
We are talking about different things. You don't have to control your emotions when playing for entertainment, you can be as much excited as you want and enjoy gambling to the full as long as you understand that you can't make money with gambling and thus you don't make plans to become rich with the help of gambling.
I think we should still be able to control ourselves, including in playing for entertainment. Because if we play as entertainment alone but we can not control emotions, if we are experiencing a successive defeat we can get carried away emotions, and the goal to play as entertainment would not be achieved.