Let me explain gambling to you.

          You have a couple extra bucks, hopefully it's not money that is suppose to go to paying bills, but then, if it is, you can pay that bill next week. 

        At home you would like to replace that computer you have that is older than dirt and suffers issues, it would be nice to buy a surround sound system, you would absolutely love to replace the fridge and or buy an AC unit, or pay off that loan or credit card. There are a couple hundred things you can think of that you would like to buy, but...you just can't get enough saved up because each one is pricey. So, 

          You head for the casino, you have three hundred dollars in your pocket, you drive along with visions of winning a large sum of money and can picture what you will buy first. You park the car and walk inside.

Floof, you are on the casino floor and all that matters is the casino. You play for a while, get yourself up to six hundred, hey, you're doing good, a little longer and you will have more, then, you start losing and in no time you are down to $300 again, the thought of leaving with what you came with doesn't even enter your mind. If common sense was a halogen headlight, the casino won't even let you light a match. You stay and play... Then suddenly, the lights start flashing, people are shouting, you hit $3000.00!!! You can buy all the things you wanted, there was the,,,,ahhh...and there is the....oh yeah you wanted.... nothing.. Not one thing you want to buy enters your mind, your reality is based in the here and now, it is trapped on the casino floor, your thought is more...There has to be more because there was this much already, so you stay.

Of course there isn't more, what you won, disappears into the casino and you find yourself down to $150.00.  Your mind still doesn't give it up, the Greed and false hope has taken control, "I planned on probably losing the three hundred anyway so what's $150.00.... besides, "I could hit again".

On your way home, all the things you wanted to buy come slamming back into your head, "If I had left I could have...."
Then there is more reality, "$3000.00 is pay for X number of weeks at work".... 

You are mad at yourself, you swear you won't go back.

Halfway home your brain chimes in, "If only that one hand had played better, that one number hit, that last emblem popped up".
You mind is already placing an illusion of winning back in your head....

If that Bonus round had clicked one more position...

Hope lights a dim light in your mind,

Placing the seed for the next time you have a little extra.
because you know, if I had done "___" I would have been fine, next time I will do this.....

(Before I get any phone calls, NO. I have not been back, I have no money and the Casinos are too far away)