But other form of gambling like sportbooks has some homework to do and can reduce the risk of losing bet amount by making the deeper analysis.
So we need to trust the process of everything, since it is more good to do that thing, we need to trust the process even it is very tiring and it can only waste our time , if we endure and make the game in a good process, we learn different strategies and tricks during the process, I think it could be very helpful indeed and it can make our outcome as good as what we expected, we need to learn in the process.
lottery is very cheap, but the probability to win is too little too, among all the other players in your area or country it could be a less than 1% probability if you make a statistics to that, but yes it is fun also, but I am more into casinos, I can learn more there.