"if you want to make money with gambling, own the casino" is a proverb I can never get over with, when I first came across this proverbs, I think I paused and read it over and over again for over 10 times or more, and I think this indeed overly changed my initial perspective or perception concerning gambling.
It is particularly true that we are mostly in gambling to make money, and not entirely to have fun, but just as you have correctly said it, it is still very important for us to trick our minds to believe that we are doing it to have fun, this is actually very important for our well-being, it is the same as believing that a money is lost before it's actually lost, one doesn't feel too bad since he or she only lost money that was already lost, this are things we trick our minds to believe, so that we can ultimately enjoy gambling, and even if at the end of the day, we do not win anything, we don't regret it that much.
Honestly, it was quite difficult to drive our minds to think that this is just for fun because our main goal is to win the jackpot prize and give most gamblers a reason why they are here. We live is such an assumption already that gambling makes someone rich because we saw some lucky gamblers win the jackpot prize in lotteries and totally change their lives then more people got the courage and hope they could do it as well. Unfortunately, what they got is only losses and desperation just like what I felt before but I realize that was wrong.
Don't talk for me, I am not like every gamblers out there, I don't gamble to win some jackpot and I am used to using $10 to gamble, I all $50 a good win and if I get more its fine, still I won't be increasing my $10 risk for anything or any win, it's been over a year that I have been using small amount to gamble and my wins aren't even going to change my life and I like it that way, because I don't expect anything big from gambling, it's not safe to do so and $10 is the amount that I can afford to lose, I like Slot games and this amount is satisfying to experience Slots when I can.
I don't live in any assumption that gambling makes anyone rich, where I am from, gambling have ruined many lives and I haven't seen a soul that makes a fortune from gambling, not even the levels of saying that gambling did something good in their lives, no single one, and you expect someone like me not to think differently with gambling?
I have seen people win rounds of games but the problem is they lose it all back, I have seen someone who bought good things with gambling money, they still sell those things when they go broke and use it all on gambling and they are still broke today, the real gambling champions are those who owns the business, gambling champions don't gamble at all, they sit back and watch.