This isn't really a joke, but it was a story I read in a newspaper article about slot machines and slot players. It seems a guy was playing the $1 Wheel of Fortune progressive slot game, and he hit the jackpot, the big jackpot, worth over $1 million.

The casino host goes over to him, congratulates him, and tells him that he's really happy for him that he won such a large jackpot.

The man's reply was, "Don't I get to spin the wheel?"

These games are so addictive and hypnotic that even after winning over $1 million, this gentleman still wanted to spin that wheel.

Now that's what you call a gambler.

I read another anecdote (in the same article, and this isn't humorous at all, really) about a women who won $3400 the first time she ever played a slot machine. Turned out it was the unluckiest day of her life, because over the next weeks, she lost over $100,000 and was finally arrested for child neglect because she'd left her children locked in the car while she played the slot machines in the casino.

Point being that there are some truly compulsive people out there that should be careful of a lot of different kinds of activities, gambling included.