Topic: Lottery Fever. What are your range of thoughts in response to Lucky Winners? - page 2. (Read 962 times)

And that's the beauty of it: you can win big while staking only a small amount. That's why so many people, many millions of them, are so attracted to lottery.


Yes, but it's a small amount, innit?


Buying more tickets in order to increase your chances of winning is not a good idea, to be honest. You can spend thousands of USD on your tickets, and your chance will still be way under 0.01%. How do you expect to win with that chance?


Not impossible, but highly unlikely. That's why buying only one or two tickets is the best option. You don't lose much, but you still have a chance to win.

You said it with right because people doesn't have to use much money at once to buy the tickets and they can use small money to buy one by one until they thinks that's enough to have the tickets. With many tickets they had, they will thinks that they have the opportunity to wins the jackpot but they don't realizes that actually, their chances still not too big compares to other people who buys many tickets than them. The percentage to wins in the lottery games is not too big and they must realizes that wins in the lottery needs luck so they will rely on their luck to wins. The chance to wins the jackpot makes many people doesn't stops buying many tickets because they thinks that they can wins someday.

It's better to allocate some money to buy some tickets, especially if we can only use the money that we can affords to lose so we will not lose much money. That will still gives us a chance to wins although that's not a big chance but we knows about the risks so we don't use much money to buy the tickets.

Only reason for all of this is because lottery can provide the opportunity to win the jackpot even if it is only small bet, but the percentage of success is really very small considering that lottery is bet that is purely based on luck.
Without luck, all the money at stake cannot produce anything and talking about buying lots of lottery tickets may increase winnings, but it does not guarantee that will be able to recover all the money have lost.
Just imagine, every day gambler buys 20 to 30 lottery tickets with bet of $1 and if he is lucky enough to get the jackpot then from that $1 he might be able to earn thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars but maybe only one in many gamblers can get it.
For small wins, may get more often, but if only win small then the percentage of losses from the total money spent on betting will never be covered and in this percentage only losses will be obtained.
This is why so many people are aware and say that getting rich from gambling is just dream that is impossible to realize, maybe there are, but only few people are able to have that kind of luck.

In fact, the best way to bet on the lottery is just to spend few dollars and place bet no more than once week and this is done just for fun or to try because that way we will never experience really big loss.

For some people it's not even "over a long period of time". When I was a kid I saw people playing instant lottery in some resort town, and some of them were buying the whole boxes of those tickets, hundreds of tickets in each box. They knew that there was a possibility of winning a car, and for some reason they thought that in a box with hundreds of dollars worth of tickets there will be a ticket winning a car worth of thousands. People act crazy sometimes.

Yes, it's true that playing the lottery only uses a little capital, but usually people who are addicted to the game will consistently play every day to buy lottery tickets and that definitely costs a large amount of money over a long period of time, so people spend all their money on the game. This lottery even though it is a game full of luck but still people who have more views about lottery will not care what people say, they continue to play it all the time and buy lottery tickets even with less money than in sports betting or playing in online casino games.

Actually there is nothing wrong with this game because my uncle still plays the lottery to get big wins, for me the lucky winner has got it as natural selection where luck comes to anyone regardless of their status, whether they are rich or poor gamblers, we even know that anyone can be lucky enough to win the lottery, I often find where I live they win the lottery and often share their winnings with me, buy me drinks and even food as winning prizes for me. Apart from that, there are also lottery gamblers who get rich when they win big prizes. in the lottery. I admit that this lottery game is based on luck so seeing a lucky winner is just normal for me.

That's actually gambling by definition, innit? Regarding people being not that much interested in participating in lottery, I think you are wrong, mate. According to the stats provided by Lottoland UK, 70% of the UK citizens over 18 take part in the national lottery on a regular basis. That's around 45 million people in the UK only! People see the lucky winners on TV screens, in newspapers on the Internet, and they want to try their luck too, especially when it doesn't cost much.

But some people still thinks that lottery can be their fast ways to makes money although they must realizes that to wins in the lottery, they must have luck. People buys many tickets and hopes that they can be one of the winners of the lottery and that makes many people still wants to use lottery to wins money. The lucky winners on lottery can gets the jackpots and change their lives because they now have a lot of money from the lottery and they can use it for many things. But playing lottery still one of the gambling games because they risks their money to gets the wins money so that makes many people wants to try their luck in the lottery. If they can realizes that lottery can't gives wins easily to them, they should not buy many tickets because that can risks much money.

but how can you tell that in addicted gamblers mate?
remember that they are constantly looking for chance to bag money and yeah , lotteries or gambling are the place where they can gather too much but also will lose much.

anyway there is a little capital in lottery comparing to other form of gambling that you need to lose higher and higher in short term.
while in lottery limited game per day is available .

As winning big in gambling is quite difficult, it is seen as a very good example that a gambler can still be lucky from time to time. So players are renewing their interest when they learn someone got his winnings and they feel that they can also be lucky with their games, hence, continued interest in betting.

Most gamblers feel that their luck will also come if they will continue to play. However, we all know that being lucky is quite difficult in this game. But guess what, even if they know their chances, they still play and try their luck.


But looking at the number of people who are buying lottery tickets, you will believe that this game is not yet dead. Because if it is, I don't think we will still see these lottery games in the market.

This is why casinos that cheat their customers have no idea what they are really doing, the best promoters casinos could ever hope to have are their winners, as they are living proof that someone can make a bet, win and get paid a handsome amount of money, so when people hear that, they cannot avoid to think if the same could happen to them, and casinos can recover all the money they lost very quickly, so I do not find it surprisingly that this happened on your neighborhood.

Honestly, I don't think have had any feeling that makes me think my time for a near win might be close after reading about another gamblers huge win story online, but I don't contend the fact that a huge win can happen to me.

Why I fight not to hold on to these sort of emotions is that they have a way of instigating an unimaginable loss to gamblers as they get carried away with those feelings.  In my few years of gambling, I have observed that the casino get packed by many unfamiliar faces after the news of huge win about one of the gamblers hits the neighborhood. And it happens that the casino get to make a bulk of profit during those periods when this kind of news spread out.

I don't think if people are that much interested in participating for lottery because they are now open to several opportunities whereby they can apply to participate in, when it comes to being lucky, we already know that as one of the attributes associated to lottery, secondly, those that were being lucky in playing lottery don't see it as gambling at all, instead its something they just took their time in taking risk with to see how they could have opportunity in it.

Unfortunately, this sad scenario has happened not only to lottery winners, but it has also happened to the winners of TV show competitions. In my country, for example, there was a guy who participated in a TV contest and he was the winner of that contest. Before entering the competition, they lived in their parents' house in a very poor neighborhood. but after he won the contest and consequently won a lot of money, he started living in a very expensive hotel in my country, the guy didn't even think about buying a house for himself, he got a girlfriend who lived in another country

but she moved to my country and went to live with him in the hotel, he bought her very expensive jewelry, he bought her very expensive cell phones, he bought her expensive cars, he traveled with her constantly to her country, In a few years all the money ran out and when he was poor again, she immediately abandoned him, and as he no longer had money to pay for a hotel, he returned to live at his parents' house. To this day he is still poor, he is poorer than before he won the competition

In my country there is no official lottery because gambling is illegal so I only participate in online casinos but so far it hasn't worked because winning is not easy.
I read how happy people are who can win the lottery but there are also quite a few whose lives are ruined because the money they get turns out to change their life for the worse. It could be said that if you can win the lottery with fantastic value but our mentality is not good enough to bear it then everything will be bad for the one who wins it.
I'm sure that everyone who buys the lottery hopes to get the prize, and should also prepare themselves so that when it does happen it won't be a surprise and the money won will be unprofitable for the winner's life.

Those news and stories of people winning the lottery in the United States and Europe do not have much on an impact on my perception on what gambling is supposed to be or over the chances I actually have to pull off some big win with change my life forever. Though, it is important to understand for any gambler out there, than those lotery businesses/organizations benefit greatly from the advertisment of the winners and the amount of money they have got, it obviously incite other to try their luck and buy their own tickets. It also happens with casinos when someone has the good luck to hit a jackpot.

By the way, it may be a little bit off topic, but I personally think there is some strategy being carry out by lotteries and Google News or certain news agencies, because I see sometimes in my feed several news about people who managed to become millionaire because of their local lottery, this cases you listed are an example. I would seem lotteries have paid some money for news to further advertise their services. It must be very effective, I assume.

My strategy as always been buying tickets with my family (when we used to) and keep a realistic/pessimistic approach.

And all of that happens because of their lack of education. How can you buy a house, a car and some other things that you will not be able to sustain in the near future? That's why I say, spend the money you won on your education. Then you will be able to calculate how much you will need to spend each year on keeping those luxury things, and that you maybe don't need most of them to live a happy life, in the first place.

There’s a lot of lottery winners in my country that suffer same outcome. They all purchase luxury cars, huge houses and other things which is too expensive for their normal lifestyle.

They ended up spending most of their money on this asset that later on turn into liabilities because they can’t pay repairs, taxes and other sort of maintenance since they don’t have job to sustain this kind of lifestyle. In the end, They all sold the properties and use the money to pay loans until they become broke again after the excessive lifestyle change.

It’s very hard to maintain the rich lifestyle if you just rely on the winning money without any source of income to add on your winning money.

Definitely paints the idea that you could be the next guy that would hold that big check, but at the same time, if you're a sensible human being with common sense, you'd realize that the odds of you being that guy is just slim to none, and that guy who won the lottery? There's a really good chance he's not gonna win it again, so he better make the money count or it's donezo.

Not saying you guys shouldn't shoot your shot, especially since tickets are just cheap, but if you go out there hoping you're the next big millionaire on TV, you're just a tad bit delusional. So same as with regular gambling, people who play the lottery should also just play for the lols and not really hope that they are the next guy. The moment they do they'd end up spending more than they are supposed to, which would end up with them spending more time and effort, and especially money on an ordeal as trivial as the lottery.

Be smarter as usual, don't let your feelings get the better of you. Gambling is good but if you get in there hoping you'd win and all that shit, you'll be the next guy that it'll chew up and spit out.

Those are interesting stories, actually, thanks for sharing! Yes, "lucky winners" can become very unlucky ones if they if they use all the won money the wrong way. We should never forget about that and we should know that money alone can't bring us happiness. We have to be wise enough to really enjoy our winnings and for that we have to be educated. For those who are uneducated but won big money by chance, I would suggest to spend the money on education. That would be the best way to spend it.

If you are in for the money or profit then this is the wrong approach that you do have because the ideal thing that you should be having in mind on the time that you do gamble is to have fun
but just been said that on the time that if those things changes up then this is where issues would really be starting to come out and this what makes you push even more out of your limitation
and the worst you would be spending up too much and losing because of gambling addiction whether betting on lotteries or dealing up with those casual casino games or everything which is related to gambling. When it comes to those winnings then we do have the full rights on what we should gonna do with our money but its not bad to consider on why some people do make out some advises
on which its not really that bad at all that making use of your winnings into more worthy way rather than on totally wasting it out.