"I realize that investing in the stock market is a bit like gambling. You hope fortune smiles upon you and not the other way around. The problem with gambling is someone always wins and someone always loses."
Not really. Real investing is not meant to be a zero sum game where someone always wins and someone always loses.
Rather, it is meant to create value leading to a win-win situation for all concerned.
And on balance with real companies quoted on real exchanges, over time that's exactly what happens.
With the Pink Sheets, home of blatant and obvious scams such as CRGP, it's exactly the opposite.
It's not even a zero sum game. It's a game which is entirely rigged in favor of the crooks behind the scam - in the case of CRGP, almost certainly Alex Smid - and as such worse than gambling where at least sometimes you can win.