Whether you’ve had a flutter on the horses or prefer to keep your money firmly in your pocket, there’s no denying that gambling has given the world some genuinely brilliant jokes. We’ve rounded up our favourites – and we’re pretty confident you won’t be able to get through them without at least one groan and a chuckle. The steaks have never been higher.

A gambling gardener usually hedges his bets.

A lady is having a bad day at the roulette tables in ‘Vegas. She’s down to her last $50. Exasperated, she exclaims, “What rotten luck! What in the world should I do now?” A man standing next to her, trying to calm her down, suggests, “I don’t know… why don’t you play your age?”

He walks away. Moments later, his attention is grabbed by a great commotion at the roulette table. Maybe she won! He rushes back to the table and pushes his way through the crowd. The lady is lying limp on the floor, with the table operator kneeling over her.

The man is stunned. He asks, “What happened? Is she all right?” The operator replies, “I don’t know. She put all her money on 29, and 36 came up. Then she just fainted!”

My wife bet me I couldn’t do a butterfly impression. I thought to myself, that’s got to be worth a little flutter!

They say one in every seven friends has a gambling addiction. My money’s on Dave.

“I once visited a bookmakers in the Himalayas.”

“Tibet?”

“Why else would I go?”

Got asked to leave the casino the other night. They said I had a chip on my shoulder.

A gambler walks into the butcher shop and says to the assistant behind the counter, “I bet you $100 you can’t get that meat down from the top shelf without a ladder.” The assistant looks up, turns to the gambler, and replies: “I’m afraid I can’t take that bet, sir. The steaks are too high.”