In order to win, you must first learn how to lose.
That probably doesn't make any sense. Anyway, as someone else posted above, learn how to play poker if you want to gamble. Poker is skill-based. As such, the more you improve your skills, the more likely you are to win. It takes time, but the opportunity is there if you put in the work.
Good Luck in the future.
Thanks for that advice Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
There is no skill that will help you, the pay-back is always less than 1 and the more often you gamble the more you lose.
If you bet an amount B, on average you will get back somewhere between .85 and .98 of it. Lets pick a number like 0.95 and play a few times (like 100 times) to see what happens:
B x 0.95^100 ~= 0.006B <--- that's less than 1% of your original money left.
This is how all gambling works. ALL gambling.
Let's take a quote from somebody who taught Kareem such as Bruce Lee:
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To be perfectly frank, I really do not." (when asked if he gambled
...or was it if he believed in God? I can't remember but it works better than Kareem's quote in this particular instance)
Don't gamble.