Topic: How close have you ever been to winning a big amount/jackpot? - page 2. (Read 286 times)

I not surprised by result like this and even though it is step very close to the jackpot then there is just one number that ruins it so that is game that does have random numbers in each output.
So far, the lottery is the only bet that is very difficult to achieve to get the jackpot, in fact incidents like what you are experiencing have happened repeatedly to gamblers.

Don't regret because the one number you were hoping for hasn't come yet and bring you the luck.
I had time to study how this type of betting works, but the human mind will never be able to penetrate the working system of random numbers in the lottery.

After all, everything depends on luck and when you don't have luck whatever number of bets you make and whatever strategy you use, it will be in vain.
Just assume you are unlucky and remember that you are not the only one who has experienced the same thing, many have got the numbers correctly but only made mistake in their position so they can't get the jackpot.

Same here, I have never had actually a good chance to bet a big multiplier because I mostly roll dices, play plinko and a little bit of blackjack. Not very into lotteries, besides those tickets I have gotten by meeting wagering requirement for Stake's weekly lottery and such.
Since my bankroll is relatively low and I don't want sessions to be too short, then I am kind of pushed to stay stuck to low multipliers and and low risk.

However, someday I would like to get an extra on my gambling budget and use it to take high multiplier dices, but using only a handful of cents.
After all, if we talk about gambling as a form of entertainment, we are supposed to seek for a gambling/risk setup which makes us feel entertained.

Ahh, this is very confusing, for me personally, I even tried reading it several times to understand what you mean. Honestly, that's why I don't really like betting on the lottery. and it seems, you are a fan of the lottery game. But, after I tried several times to understand it, I started to understand a little about how it works. and apparently, each lottery will always be different in each country. In particular, local lotteries in each country are definitely different. That's why I have a little difficulty understanding the points of the bet you made.
Please understand, because I'm not a fan of lottery gambling.

But if we imagine, if the system number that comes out is 9. then, you have 5 correct numbers in your bet. and the reward is quite tempting, because it is multiplied by 1000x. Just imagine, if you only bet a few dollars. or one dollar, then the results are quite large compared to the capital we spend. But, there is something I don't understand a little, you guessed 4 numbers correctly. If the number 8 becomes 9, it means you guessed the 5 numbers correctly. Well, haven't you guessed the right 4 numbers? if so, you should get ×250. but, why only x10. However, there's a good chance I'm wrong, because I really don't know how this game works.

Despite all that, lottery is still too complicated for me and I'm not that interested. but if you succeed in breaking through with your guess, that is good luck for you. next time, I hope you have better luck than that. For me personally I prefer sports, it can be single bets or parlay options. As for the parlay option, 3 games is enough, 1x2 betting, with a bankroll that meets my standards. The result is no less interesting than lottery gambling.

The closet I have been to winning a big amount of money was on sports gambling few years back when I placed a bet and the bet slip had just seven games, they were random picks with big odds so I didn't consider it a game that could possibly turn out in my favour until about five of the game played and turned out wins.

I then have attention to following up the games because I least expected and now, I'm seeing that five out of seven were already won, so I followed up the remaining two and fortunately the first turned out a win, the second was on and I was following it up ,my pick was over 2.5 goals, and by the end of the first half, they have scored a go already so I was almost so sure I will be winning big that day but sadly by the end of the second half they could get only one more goals and that was how I lost the game.

I've been opportuned to come very close to winning big in gambling few times and I can tell you that the feeling you get after coming too close to winning is something that shouldn't be experienced in the first place.
Sometime in 2016, I was very close to winning a bet of about $25,000 I staked in sports betting football precisely. My betting receipt contained 10 games of which the result of 9 of them  tallied with my prediction on the receipt but unfortunately for me, the last game of the was the one who's result didn't tally with what I predicted and it was very difficult for me to accept the outcome and move on

These are the kinds of experiences that you keep talking about and will find it difficult to forget because they are very painful, the near success experience. These kind of experience can make a gambler want to gamble more because they were so close to winning the last time and will believe  that if they gamble more they are close to winning. If no care is taken, It can turn a responsible gambler to an irresponsible one.

I never buy lottery ticket so I never had been that close in winning a jackpot or huge amount in lottery.  I only play slots and dice and in those games I never win huge amount of money because I only bet at minimum.  Although I experienced winning more than 1000x of my bet, it is only around $100 - $200+ since  I only bet $0.1 - $0.2 and that amount is not huge compared to the huge winning reward of lottery games.

Didn’t have the experience to be so close like this on winning the jackpot, lottery seems not in favor to me but I do have a small experience in bingo which is not that big and its just a local bingo game so I don’t consider it. Hitting the jackpot in Gambling is like one in a million, it’s hard to tell and hard to achieve so once you are able to hit the jackpot, you have to celebrate it because you’re lucky enough to win it.

That’s too close, but still congratulations on your winning.
I personally have the same experience in lottery where I can have the chance of getting a big reward but ended up with nothing because of the last two digit that didn’t align with my bet, this could have been change my life but it didn’t happen at all for some reason, well luck will comes some time but its really rare to hit the jackpot.

The amount you had win from *1000 was very huge,if you had use the 1 dollars for the instant mean.This will multiple the winning amount to 1000 dollars which was the satisfied amount for the gambler.But it was based on the algorithm.The gambler will not withdrew the dollars as you mentioned it was end with the x10,the reason was the gambler get more greedy and continue to play the game.But he fail to understand the fact the luck was only one time not all the time.The greedy was made you to end with x10 from x1000.Nearly you had loss huge after the big win from the gmabling.The blunder one use to do buy the gambler was continuous games after the big win and try for the shot to make you the millionaire in one day.But the bad luck may get all your winning and you should withdrew after big win from gambling sites.

If you read every line of this my post, you will know how close I was to win big so months back.
However, I don't put that in mind anymore because I believe it want yet my time to win such amount of money, maybe the joy of the win might make you because more addicted to gamble.
However, everyone have their gamble story to tell, more especially when it comes to the point they almost win big from their stake, I mostly bet on sports bet because that's my favorite games.
I haven't tried that lotto bet before because I believe its all about maths just like a post I saw today, but luck is the only thing that makes gamblers win in their bets.

When i saw this, the next thing that could get to my mind was those times i used to make sport bettings and have a combination of about 5 to 10 games and the winning amount will be so high beyond my imagination all because the games have some higher odds and the more the risk the higher the odds, but at the end of the matches, i game will always make a spoil of them all and the entire money would be loosed, i would have thought about cashing out but that same game i have confidence in is what will turn the table round that i loose everything, this is a very common experience with some of us that always like sport betting with more games selections.

For the Lotto, nah, wasn't even close to getting at least 5 out of 6 numbers. The best that I can do when I'm playing lotto back then was like only 3 or 4 numbers. But that's it. But I haven't try online lotto though, might be different outcome but who knows.

And that's why the odds of hitting that jackpot is really huge, everything should be align, including your lucky star that night to be able to get it.

Best of luck in advance for those who are going to play. Maybe one of this day, I will also try to play on that platform and see how it goes.

It is good when we observe ourselves and see where we are good in so that we can make better improvements. If you know you are not good in gambling or a particular type of betting or games, it will better we switch to other games that would aid our winnings. Just like we know that there are many gamblers that prefer to bet on sport books than betting on Casino games. When we know where we are good and the kind of games we normally get luck, it is good when we focus on what works for us than running from one bet to the other.

I have only once near gotten the max prize in a slot machine like Fish Eye slot from Reel Kingdom a UK partner of Pragmatic Play.In there I got x9833 multiplier out of the x10.000 that is the total amount of that game,unfortunately my bet was only 0.02 and I only got like near 200 dollars as a profit.

I have also gotten several times at Play n Go Medieval Arthurian legend slots from x1000 to x3000 but have stopped playing there because they don't feature the buy in bonus and games can get very boring there without giving you the bonus for thousand spins sometimes,so yeah I have been there near the top prize.

The slots have nothing to do with numbers you say but they are based on numbers as a RNG-random number generator decides the outcome of each spin.

The minimum is $0.1 cents, but this depends on which game you are playing, like for example, if you are playing pick six, there is always an option of choosing up to five rows, where you can pick six numbers for each row, minimum bet for each of those rows is $0.1 cents, you can increase it to as high as $5 if you want.

Another example is, if you are playing quick pick games, you have the option of choosing any number from 00 to 49, you can choose as many numbers as you want, but minimum bet for each number you choose is $0.1 cents, but again, you can increase this to as high as $5 if you want.

I hope the explanation is understandable as possible, incase you are still lost, feel free to ask.

Hey komisariatku!

So just so everyone is clear- the game Fivestar4ever is talking about is Pick-Six on l0tt0.com. All the games on my site are instant play... It's not like a lottery, more like scratch off tickets and slots.

With that said, you pick 6 numbers or you can randomize it. You can bet up to 5 rows (each with 6 numbers) on each game. The winning 6 digit number (provably fair) is matched against the numbers you played. Matches are seen on the pay table (scroll down, middle tab)

Pick Six


Here is my latest big win!!! (and yes... I play on my own site )

Unfortunately I have never played the lottery and have never played in the lotto, I have seen your discussion with the lotto owner about how winnings are calculated and how that number would be a win of x10 or x1000. I see that the chance of winning x1000 or x2500 is very small


I'm also confused about how to guess the correct number. If I may ask, what is the minimum bet to play lottery? Maybe if we play with small bets we can guess the lottery more so the chance of winning x1000 is bigger

Mine is very different it's not about the numbers but it's more about the minutes I have a set of numbers that I've betting for the last five months I dreamed these numbers and I thought to bet on it so I bet for five months, then one day I have overtime and when I arrived in the betting station I was late by two minutes the cashier close the betting because they have a rule that they have to close the betting a few hours before the betting and it happened that the numbers I've been betting show up and I was late by two minutes.
I couldn't sleep the whole two weeks but I soon moved from that it's no use thinking of that, it's not really for me, maybe in the future numbers will show up in my dreams again but this time I will not be late again.

I realized that I have the same situation like yours, I rarely won in gambling activities but I've been so close in winning, so I guess I'm not that lucky when it comes to gambling activity, but I'm winning in a raffle so many times wherein there's no money/payment is involve, like totally winning for free. even though I rarely win, I'm still playing out of fun when I have my free time, So that I don't get obsessed with playing it.