To be honest, in my opinion gambling doesn't help anything with my life. It is more like a Stress and stress reliever at the same time. because i found gambling as a source of entertainment and killing time but in the same time is also a stress because if you lose a huge amount of money it is stressful to think about that.
This is also my sentiments. I can't find anything from gambling that can really help me in my life. I remember when I used to gamble a lot in a land based casino, when I go home on the negative side, I'm so stressful that I don't want to worked on the next day. And the same feeling when I was also winning. And when I don't work because of loosing money, I just went out to buy things like clothes to relief my stress of losing. So its a double whammy for me. Didn't work because of stress of losing, then just buy things to relief it. Result: more money is lost on my end. LOL.
What is important is to be responsible and being responsible means you know when is the right time to stop.