These factors has made a number of gamblers to keep their gambling habit a secret doing all they could not to let friends and family know they gamble. And it does seem like they ain't proud of what they're doing.
But why continue in what you're not proud of by keeping it secret cause maybe you're worried about what people may say, how their thoughts about your person might change. Or how you might loose ties with someone you hold dear to. And many other reasons that follows.
Those that keep their gambling habit a secret is it that they're not proud of what they are doing?.
Besides there is a difference between keeping something a secret and just keeping that information to yourself, after all I do not think there is anything wrong with sharing that information with your friends, but I would not do so at my job as I do not like to mix my job with my personal life.