but those are surely the worst gamblers recorded and not greatest
I somehow agree with you because the word greatest is use for compliment no for some catastrophic things that have happened to these poor guys. I think we need to have such a record being listed here to remind everyone about not going overboard about the things we are doing or else we might end like one of those. It's so hard to move on with those kinds of traumatic events hunting your mind. I wonder what they do to move on after those tragedies.
Nice observation @Chato1977. Anyway, what matters is just to learn from our losses, we don't want to lose more than what we can afford to lose because that is basic for us gamblers, it's the attitude that we should have in order to minimize the losses. For others, they might think that if a person loses a lot of money if they see it in millions or even a hundred thousand dollars, but in the end, it is always based on the capacity of a person, like for example, a billionaire could lose $100k in just 1 bet and that would not affect him much because he can afford it.