Any gambler wants to win such money, but to everyone's regret it is not possible for everyone. There was a time when I bought weekly lottery tickets, but in the end I gave up this idea because I never managed to win even $5000. In addition, I realized that the lottery does not cause me any feelings except regret about the money spent. Slots or poker in this respect bring much more positive emotions, even if not always.
You are completely right, and I absolutely agree with you, I've played slot games, and as well played the lottery on several occasions, the only excitement in playing the lottery (which may not even be excitement for people) is that it makes one anxious, hopeful for something, atleast, until the result is out, ones the result is out and you discover you did not win (which is mostly the result by the way), the feeling of disappointment arises, which also gives birth to regret and other emotional downturns.
But playing slot gives a different feeling, atleast, for the moment one is playing, he or she is excited because he or she is enjoying the game, that a gambler is disappointed and regretful after a slot session is possible only if the gambler doesn't know how to control him self, that is, he's losing and failed to stop when he or she should have, so as to curtail the loss.
Lottery can not even be categorized as a game, bit just gamble in the sense that games are those activities that gives the players some form of excitement and entertainments, aside from the possibility of winning, while lottery on the other hand is all about the winning since from the time you pick the ticket or number, you don't have any involvement in it again and all that you can do at that point is to just wait for the outcome and to see if you get lucky to have picked the lucky lottery number., without any form of excitement like what you have from casino games.
Bit one other advantage of a lottery is the fact that, it winning have the ability to change your life for ever, just like in the case of this woman who won such an amount that have the capacity to change one life forever, unlike in casino games where you only win a portion of what you already lose in the process of playing, unless you hit a jackpot and even at that it can amount to such staggering amount like in this woman case.