[nairboon]

In a casino you can bet against other people too. Nonetheless, the house always wins and takes its cut.

[expedition32]

With gambling you should always play for entertainment. If you play to win you've already lost.

[TeMPOraL]

Making paper airplanes from dollar bills, and setting their backs on fire to give them jet engines, is likely cheaper and more entertaining, so if you're gambling anyway, you've already lost, period.

[jfengel]

Cheaper, yes. More entertaining, not for a lot of people. Many play the same way you'd play a video game, with the actual stakes giving it a bigger rush. Enough that some become addicted.

If it weren't fun it wouldn't be nearly as big a problem.

[yehoshuapw]

and perhaps somewhat safer

[nairboon]

But if you don't win, where's the fun in that? Do you consider other ways to part with your money also as entertainment? Is donating entertaining?