Lottery Ticket

[ECO]

The other day I was in line behind a person who was buying lottery tickets. Not to be judgmental but she looked like life and karma took a giant dump on her. Figuring her odds of winning anything hover at close to zero I bought the same ticket as her. The assumption that her's had to be a dud increased my odds of winning....I didn't win, but that's not what I'm here to talk about.

The top prize was one million.

One million.....paid out @50,000 a year for 20 years or something like a one time payment of 500,000.

How can someone win a million and have to wait 20 years to get it or really only win half of a million? I really want to run up a tax bill with the state and make them the same offer....half now in cash or all spread out over 20 years. I'm really starting to think the people at the lottery commission were funding the bill that got passed a few years ago making ganja not a criminal offense in MA.

[Wahoo]

I figure there're greater odds of me being struck by lightning twice than of me winning any lottery. Or with my rotten luck, I'd win the lottery, then be struck by lightning...twice. So I have no regrets that I never buy a lottery ticket.

My only regrets are that I never learned how to play poker and that I never learned how to count cards.

[ECO]

You can learn to count cards in 1-4 weeks spending only an hour or two a day. The hard part is keeping up with the count while playing 2-3 hands at a time, playing perfect blackjack and NOT BEING CAUGHT. I've been caught a few times in Vegas and they just keep shuffling up the cards until you get pissed off and leave.....no big deal. At Foxwoods, they label you as a counter and you can still play but you can never change your beat which defeats the purpose. Got drunk as a skunk in Vegas with a friend and was playing up too $120 a hand 2-3 hands each and that caused two pit bosses and two "back counters" (card counters employed to catch counters) to watch our game for an hour or so. I kept saying stuff like "listen you dumb fucs, I can count really well but I'm drunk, I'm only increasing my bet when I win so piss off or offer us free food and I'll leave the table". No free food so we took them for 4k or so and moved on.

Playing poker is easy, playing the 9 other people on a table is the hard part!