The more I read this the more I think being a compulsive gambler will lead you to this state where you gradually increases your chances of losing in the long run. This kind of people really need a mental health professional before it gets worst—lucky for them they were rich people, but for those below to them shouldn't try to be compulsive or else the worst (I mean some are really worst) thing will happen to them.
This just shows that being a compulsive gambler like the ones posted by the OP will just lead to losses.
TBH, it will just go down to how good you are in controlling yourself especially when it comes to gambling.
For sure those at the top seek the help of the professionals just to recover themselves from the losses they faced and while some feel depressed of their losses, there are some of them who are just "Ok I lost its ok for me I have a huge money there still". Their losses are just nothing to them
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They cannot control their obsession and it is the reason why it resulted to them to lose huge amount of their money. OF course they lose because of improper allocation and because of their hope. For those gamblers out there like me, I'm sure that you also experience to have high hope especially when we have consecutively losses. We think that our hope can help us in order to regain our losses but we are wrong and we need to stop and rest in order to prevent huge losses especially if we are in consecutively losses. This rich people for sure regretted their decisions because of the huge money that they lose. It is one of the example that even if earn huge money in gambling, the casinos can regain it if we do not have proper strategy and risk management.
We should really identify the amount of the money that we are willing to risks because if we put our hard earned money and we lose it in online or traditional casino, for sure it will affect us not only through psychology but also physically. The psychological damage is really the consequences of being greedy and losing huge amount of money in gambling.