People who take part in gambling don't need to be friends with him. Frequent contact with such people will only do more harm than good, and may even drag you down in the end. He should be advised to surrender in time and strive for leniency.
It constitutes the crime of opening a casino, opening a gambling sites on the computer network for profit, or accepting bets for gambling sites's agent, which belongs to the crime of opening a casino stipulated in Article 303 of the Criminal Law. People of China and citizens of China gather to gamble and open casinos in the surrounding areas outside China to attract people of China and citizens of China as the main tourists, which constitutes a crime of gambling, they can be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law. Those who are investigated for criminal responsibility shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and fined. A large number of people, if the circumstances are serious, and the amount of gambling money is huge, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.