It would really depend on how much you really are willing to lose. Having a daily or weekly limit and sticking to it is the best option to not lose too much but it would take much discipline. I believe everyone here has experienced running really low and yet still feel that you'd get it back on the next roll.
Yeah that's way the best or most used by most people in the world. But I think not everyone is doing it, because there are indeed some people who only think about how to make them larger in benefit and how soon they could be rich. So it makes them can't control themselves and they can't control the funds that caused them to get a big loss.In fact it indeed should be well thought out, and never to think that profits in gambling is very easy. So that makes them think that gambling is easy, but in fact it is very different
Addiction is real, it's just sad that when people think of gambling the first thing that comes to mind are homeless guys who squandered away their fortune in casinos when in fact much of the community are "normal" people who just gamble for fun. It really boils down to mindset. If you have a get-rich-quick mentality, it's likely you'd lose money even if you don't gamble since you'd probably get scammed.
So my take on it, if you impoverished your self by gambling, it's very likely you would have burned through your money some other manner anyway. Especially now, there have been research that there are people that are susceptible to addictions. It's not gambling that ruined them, they are already predisposed to be addicted to anything.