I try not to tell people not to gamble, unless they are close friends/relatives and I feel I have the right to intrude upon their life decisions.

I don't know most of the people on this forum, so I am not aware of their financial situation and what they can afford to lose while gambling. Do we likely have some problem gamblers who post here? Yes. But we are all adults here, and are on this forum to discuss gambling in various ways. Nobody wants to be preached to regarding their enjoyment of gambling, so I'm not going to do it.

I will admit that it does come off a bit weird to care about small amounts of money when routinely gambling large amounts, but I learned long ago to separate the two. As a professional poker player, that is an extremely necessary lifestyle skill. I have known so many players who went broke because they took an attitude of, "A single pot at the game I played today was $3,000, so there shouldn't be an issue with me spending $500 right now. It would be like I just lost a fraction of an extra pot."

Of course, if you are routinely engaging in highly -EV gambling and then acting frugal elsewhere in life, I agree that makes no sense. But for people who try to stick to the best odds games and maximize their associated comps, there's no problem with being frugal on top of that.