Excessive gambling can ruin lives

I should own up. Yesterday while waiting for others to show up at the pub I finally worked out how to play the poker machines. I put in a dollar and got 100 1cent credits. I worked out that one credit = 1 line and wasn't very fun, 5-10 credits/lines felt more promising. During about 2-5 minutes play (I got my moneys worth) I "struck lucky" (my word not sure what the real term is) twice and was offered the option to gamble on red or black (or something more complicated on suites) or "take my winnings". I gambled everytime, at one point I recovered from just 13 credits to 60 (note I never exceeded my starting amount) before losing the gamble, black never looked so black.

When it was all over I kind of understood how it might be possible to enjoy, luckily I had no more coins and the idea of another beer gave me more pleasure.