Well also cause its not legal, how can you legally take a house when the bet was not legal in the first place. But they can take a leg or a knee cap...

That's why there is gamblers annoymous and its a massive problem.

It can be a fine line sometimes, but discpline is what seperates the men from the boys. Its not about getting rich, people who do that are going for a desperation attempt, almost never works, might work one time out of a thousand.

Not everybody is swaping an asset for a desired outcome, they are investing, if you play stocks you are doing the same thing.