LOTTERY.. who plays? why? answer this about it please...

[madbomber31]

ok, the powerball/ big game/lotto... whatever.. it gets up to 285 million dollars and THEN people start spending tons of cash on tickets... tell me something...

WHY THE FUCK WAIT TILL IT IS THAT HIGH??? is 4-20 million NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU??? i dont get it... the playing of numbers must increase 10 fold when the lottery is worth over 150 million.. like people are too good to win 1 million dollars????

 

[WarriorPL]

People are just plain ol' greedy.

 

[big4life]

GREED

People just see this huge payday, and they
buy lots more tickets.

Yes I'll buy tickets every now and then.
I'll be happy with one million dollars.

 

[madbomber31]

hell ya... what? you dont want 750k??? i will take it!!!

 

[Warik]

Why play at all?

The chances of winning the Florida Lottery are 1 in 22,957,480. You are more likely to get struck by lightning, bitten by a shark, and get into an automobile accident on your way to catch a plane that will crash immediately after take-off - ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

Check this out

Out of almost FIVE MILLION simulated drawings, only *ONE* person won the 6-out-of-6 jackpot - and it took him TWO THOUSAND simulated years to do it!!!

The lottery is, was, and always will be one thing - a tax on the stupid. Stupid people don't make enough money to pay real taxes to the government, so they do so by buying lottery tickets. I am told that on average, a family whose head of the household doesn't even have a high school diploma, spends about $700 a year on lottery tickets.

Am I complaining? HELL NO! This idiocy is what allows me to receive 175% of my college tuition worth of scholarships (that I earned BTW - I have only academic scholarships, not minority) each semester.

Lol

Too funny

If you want to win money on games of chance then go to a casino. Otherwise you're throwing your money away.

-Warik

 

[nycdefender]

I'll tell you why I just played the Powerball for the $285 million. One, I live in NY & getting to CT is a pain in the ass. The reason why I wait, is because the odds of winning the Powerball are 1 in 80 million. Considering that my odds are infitismal, why throw away so much money on playing every week for small jackpots? With such low odds, why not wait and hope for a large jackpot? And no, I do not spend huge amounts of money. I spent only $5 for myself. My odds are not significantly better with $100 or $1000 in tickets.

 

[GinNJuice]

I play $1 or 2 here in Texas only when it gets above 6 Million

Shit.... wining 1 million is only 500k after the lump sum(only way I play) and then only 300k after Ryan's beloved taxes

And that 300k fucks up your tax bracket..... ok, so I could pay off my house and have change left over to buy a Corvette...... but then I lose my damn tax deduction for the next year.... and the 'vette depreciates


Now, if I won 6 million, (3 mil after lump sum, and 1.8 mil after taxes... put that in an investment making 10%/yr....) I can live on 180k a year without working

 

[WODIN]

I play five bucks a week no matter what.

 

[GinNJuice]

I saw a funny bumper sticker once.... It read:

Lottery, A tax for people who are bad at math

 

[plifter]

Some of you don't appreciate the thrill of gambling. I buy 1 ticket for each drawing regardless of the payout. It's a minimum of $10 million I think. That much money would pay for penis enlargement surgery.

 

[Warik]

Some of you don't appreciate the thrill of gambling. I buy 1 ticket for each drawing regardless of the payout. It's a minimum of $10 million I think. That much money would pay for penis enlargement surgery.

If the chances of winning are 1 in 22 million, you'd have to play 22 million times (i.e. you'd have to live about five bazillion lifetimes) in order to win 10 million.

10 million minus 22 million = -12 million.

That's not gambling - that's throwing your money away.

-Warik

 

[GinNJuice]

Geesh Warik...... you really know how to take the fun out of gambeling.

However, even if he DID play 22 million times.... his chances of winning would be the same each time.

 

[Warik]

That's why I will never play the lottery. If I ever gamble again, it will be in a casino.

And true, if he did play 22 million times his chances of winning wouldn't get any better... but "on average", his chosen set of 6 numbers will appear once every 22 million drawings.

No point in arguing that really though. Anything past about 2,000 drawings is pointless.

-Warik