To succeed in gambling, a gambler must learn how to be very strategic with his gambling engagements or continue to suffer losses no matter how hard he tries to win. Some gamblers fail to learn from their losses by examining the things they did that resulted to their losses and others also fail to examine the things they did that helped them win which I don't think is good for their development. Studying the game of gambling is very good because it helps gamblers to make good decisions that'll help them win big so if you're a gambler that's always losing your money, the best thing to do is to carefully study the decisions you make results to your losses while trying continually
Gambling is such that no strategy can make you win. Strategy can help you mitigate your loss by ensuring that you gamble with discipline and self-control. By discipline, I mean gambling with an amount you are prepared to lose that is, setting limits and sticking to it. Whereas, with self-control, a gambler will not chase his losses. I don't align with your opinion that gamblers don't learn from their loss or win.
My reason is simple. No gambler knows when he will win so even if you try to stick to what made you win, you might not win again because you might not be lucky the second time. In my thinking, 90% of the outcome of gambling is beyond the control of the gambler and that is why even with skills and research a gambler still doesn't win.
This made me flashed back when someone within our street won about 10m in gambling, people around the region kept disturbing this young man for games. Like people were seeing him as final person that could predicts a game it went the same without knowing that He's Maker has just decided to blessed with that game. When these fellows were following for about 5 months there was no serious winning again rather, he almost exhausted the initiate winning at the process to win something higher and he ended wasting those funds back to the casino.
So, In summary what you said is correct and no one can boast of his previous methods or style he used in playing games before to have used it again to win. Never this doesn't happened except for a hand held game, like you in particular playing with someone it could be Snooker, Ludo, or whatever game.
Even in the Ludo game, you can't be too certain when you will pulp out six. That's where the probability that defines gambling lies. Everyone wants to be associated with a winner and that is why when a particular gambler has a big win, so many people start playing his games with the hope that they will win too. I have a similar experience.
I followed a friend to a betting shop to print his games. That day he printed five different tickets some of which were running games. After a week, he called me that he won one of the tickets and so I regretted why I didn't play the games. So, I told him that whenever he predicts games he should always send me the booking code so that I can also place the game. We continued this way for some time and I gave up because we weren't winning.
The story is no different from what I observed from the "X" App. When a punter wins millions, his followers increase and when he goes a long time without winning, his followers will start to decrease.