Super User Jigfishn10 Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 I don't play the lottery much at all, maybe 5-10 times a year and only spend maybe $5-$10 on each wage and have never won in my life. Saturday I was doing some paper work and a number kept popping up so I decided to play a 3 number game. Not sure where you live, but here you can play a 3 number play on a 4 number game. I played first 3 exact order, first 3 any order, last 3 exact order and last 3 any order. Total ticket was $4. Well I finally won. It wasn't much, $75, but I was happy none the less. The following Monday, I decided to try my luck 1 more time and played a different set of 3 numbers and played it the same way. Won again. Twice in a matter of days and I have never won a lottery game in my life. Now I'm wondering if I should try my luck 1 more time...LOL Anyway, has anyone ever get on a lucky streak like that? 3 Quote
Super User Jar11591 Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 Remember; quit while you're ahead! 1 Quote
Super User deaknh03 Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 Remember; quit while you're ahead! keep playing until you lose 2 Quote
Super User Ratherbfishing Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 Fishing is ALREADY addictive enough. Don't start another addiction. 2 Quote
Super User slonezp Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 No luck over here. We have a millionaire raffle twice a year in IL. They sell 500,000 tickets at 20 bucks a pop. There's 4 $1M prizes 10 $100k prizes and I think 100 $1000 prizes. That's the only game I play. I worked with a 24 year old guy who plays $200-$300 a week on scratchers. He hit a million dollar winner on a $30 scratcher a number of years back. The only payout option was an annuity for 20 or 25 years @ $35k a year basically doubling his annual salary. He has blown every annuity check at the casino within a month or so of receiving it. I don't get it. 1 Quote
Super User Bankbeater Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 Watch out for the bait monkey! Quote
Super User tomustang Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 I'm not into the gambling thing, but my wife does it every now and then. We take $20 and throw it on scratchers. Anything she wins get thrown at more lotto. Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 Can't win if you don't play! Bet big, you win big! :happy-devil-0048: Jeff 2 Quote
Super User Redlinerobert Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 I buy lotto tickets randomly. Maybe someday I'll win the Powerball. Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted March 20, 2014 Author Super User Posted March 20, 2014 No luck over here. We have a millionaire raffle twice a year in IL. They sell 500,000 tickets at 20 bucks a pop. There's 4 $1M prizes 10 $100k prizes and I think 100 $1000 prizes. That's the only game I play. I worked with a 24 year old guy who plays $200-$300 a week on scratchers. He hit a million dollar winner on a $30 scratcher a number of years back. The only payout option was an annuity for 20 or 25 years @ $35k a year basically doubling his annual salary. He has blown every annuity check at the casino within a month or so of receiving it. I don't get it. I know what you mean, I worked at a gas station part time to help Santa Claus one year and I would get peeps just burning their pay checks on scratch tix. I actually had 1 sale where the guy bought a whole book. Must have took a day to scratch. I don't do the scratch tix, I can see a huge problem with those. Remember; quit while you're ahead! I think I'm with you, I think I'll take the fam out to dinner this weekend and enjoy my hard work. Quote
Super User clayton86 Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 A guy I worked with when I was roofing won the lotto twice big money to he's a multi millionare from it. If I remember correctly he won the mega millions this last time a few years ago like 30million. He works as a crane operator just to pass time I guess. 1 Quote
Super User Raider Nation Fisher Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 I'm sending you a money order for 900 smack a roos. Put it all on Powerball. Daddy needs a new boat. 1 Quote
Super User Raider Nation Fisher Posted March 20, 2014 Super User Posted March 20, 2014 A guy I worked with when I was roofing won the lotto twice big money to he's a multi millionare from it. If I remember correctly he won the mega millions this last time a few years ago like 30million. He works as a crane operator just to pass time I guess. Gotta do something with his time. Might as well operate a crane. Quote
gr8outdoorz Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Gotta do something with his time. Might as well operate a crane. I'd rather be operating a new boat to pass my time! 1 Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted March 20, 2014 Author Super User Posted March 20, 2014 A guy I worked with when I was roofing won the lotto twice big money to he's a multi millionare from it. If I remember correctly he won the mega millions this last time a few years ago like 30million. He works as a crane operator just to pass time I guess. If I won big, I'd do something, but I don't think it would back in construction. Quote
Super User Raider Nation Fisher Posted March 21, 2014 Super User Posted March 21, 2014 If I won big, I'd do something, but I don't think it would back in construction. I honestly believe I would keep right on doing what I am now. I would take time off between jobs, but I would carry right along. Quote
jhoffman Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Id find enough to do with my free time not working. It might be "work" but not in the sense of earn a paycheck. Id probably start a habitat company and buy all the machines a guy could ever want to make habitat. It would go along with 1 sq mile of the best that montana had to offer, id probably have one more mile of it in iowa. Id spend spring-fall on those properties and my winter on a lake like okeechobee just fishn all day. Prob would lose the wife in all this, rather than find another id just hire 25 year old porn stars like charlie sheen... WINNING 1 Quote
Super User clayton86 Posted March 21, 2014 Super User Posted March 21, 2014 Id find enough to do with my free time not working. It might be "work" but not in the sense of earn a paycheck. Id probably start a habitat company and buy all the machines a guy could ever want to make habitat. It would go along with 1 sq mile of the best that montana had to offer, id probably have one more mile of it in iowa. Id spend spring-fall on those properties and my winter on a lake like okeechobee just fishn all day. Prob would lose the wife in all this, rather than find another id just hire 25 year old porn stars like charlie sheen... WINNING I like the way you think lol. Montana has a ton of coyotes to my favorite animal to hunt. Quote
The Rooster Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 I don't play, except for the very rare $1 scratch tickets. Me and my wife do this for fun just as a treat, maybe every three years at most. My brother is becoming a common sight at some of the places that have slot machines. He sits and studies people playing them and then picks certain machines based on their luck. It's always the ones that haven't paid anyone whose played them. He regularly wins $500 to $1000 at a time, several times a year. Of course he'll lose some too, but nowhere near what he's won. I don't get into it at all though. Seems more trouble than it's worth to me. But if I ever did play something big enough to win big, and I did hit it, I know I'd never work again other than on just what I wanted to. I enjoy my work, but not every aspect of it and not the amount of time it takes. I don't enjoy it enough to maintain it steady if I didn't have to. Quote
tipptruck1 Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 I am not a big gambler at all. Last time I placed a bet was on the super bowl 5 years ago. Quote
Super User Grizzn N Bassin Posted March 22, 2014 Super User Posted March 22, 2014 Hit a 500 dollar scartch off. I dont buy lotto or scratches once in a blue moon. I do play poker though once a week with my buddies 5 or 10 dollar buy in . Its just for fun. 1 Quote
Super User Jigfishn10 Posted March 22, 2014 Author Super User Posted March 22, 2014 Hit a 500 dollar scartch off. I dont buy lotto or scratches once in a blue moon. I do play poker though once a week with my buddies 5 or 10 dollar buy in . Its just for fun. I have no problems with a friendly poker game amongst friends and family, but the whole notion of giving taxed money back to the peeps who taxed me in the first place kinda goes up my @$$. Quote
Super User Grizzn N Bassin Posted March 22, 2014 Super User Posted March 22, 2014 I have no problems with a friendly poker game amongst friends and family, but the whole notion of giving taxed money back to the peeps who taxed me in the first place kinda goes up my @$$. Amen brotha, kinda why i like friendly poker Quote
BassAddict1911 Posted March 23, 2014 Posted March 23, 2014 Remember; quit while you're ahead! what do they say ... third times the charm? Quote
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