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Eastern Time (GMT-5:00) | Home -> Forums -> Jackpot Games -> Do you BELIEVE you will win the Powerball or Mega Millions Jackpot? Do you BELIEVE you will win the Powerball or Mega Millions Jackpot?Previous TopicNext TopicRidge Runner - Oracle of the Appalachians Way back up in them hills, son United States Member #74415 April 28, 2009 8417 Posts Online | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 2:26 am - IP Logged | |
I'm kind of fascinated on people's perception relative to their approach to playing the big jackpot games. I have a natural instinct that makes me think I'm going to win the big one all the time. I have heard other people being somewhat negative however and was wondering how most people feel about it. . The water ain't never gonna run clear til you get the pigs out of the creek.
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Miami United States Member #63284 July 9, 2008 646 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 2:46 am - IP Logged | |
I'm kind of fascinated on people's perception relative to their approach to playing the big jackpot games. I have a natural instinct that makes me think I'm going to win the big one all the time. I have heard other people being somewhat negative however and was wondering how most people feel about it. I know that instinct you're talking about. I'm in disbelief every time I don't win the big one. "...a chance to push everything aside, the circumstances that've controlled our lives, and do it our way now. Good, bad or otherwise. You'll maybe get lost in it, tied up in it a little bit, but if you work your way through that the real you shows up, I think. Maybe what's at your core deep down, maybe that comes out. Maybe that's what it's about." Mike Pace | | |
Idaho United States Member #56982 November 21, 2007 3940 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 2:56 am - IP Logged | |
I just try to think positive and hope for the best. I mean, I'm sure many people believe that they are going to win a jackpot, but really, the odds are against the fact, that all of us are going to win one. Still, I try to think positive and continue to buy tickets for each drawing. "No one remembers the person who almost climbed the mountain, only the person who eventually gets to the top."
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United States Member #69671 January 5, 2009 1947 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 3:18 am - IP Logged | |
Strongly agree! you never will know if you do not play. Get at least 2 tickets every time the jack pot reaches 100 Million! "Many Strategies|One System" | | |
United States Member #69671 January 5, 2009 1947 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 3:19 am - IP Logged | |
(John McCain) I couldn't Agree With you More! "Many Strategies|One System" | | |
United States Member #69671 January 5, 2009 1947 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 3:21 am - IP Logged | |
"Many Strategies|One System" | | |
United States Member #69671 January 5, 2009 1947 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 3:22 am - IP Logged | |
This is still funny!!!! "Many Strategies|One System" | | |
mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 13456 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 11:13 am - IP Logged | |
I wouldn't play if I didn't believe I was going to win but I'm not the only one who thinks I'm going to win because clerks selling me my tickets and others are always telling me to remember them when I win. * THat which happens most *
* is most likely to happen again * 
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United States Member #13375 March 30, 2005 1927 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 12:33 pm - IP Logged | |
I just try to think positive and hope for the best. I mean, I'm sure many people believe that they are going to win a jackpot, but really, the odds are against the fact, that all of us are going to win one. Still, I try to think positive and continue to buy tickets for each drawing. Now, if I can just get my post-drawing tickets to agree with my pre-drawing feelings...  In neo-conned Amerika, bank robs you.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be the name of a convenience store, not a govnoment agency. | | |
Maryland United States Member #10659 January 14, 2005 4618 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 18, 2009, 12:46 pm - IP Logged | |
 Feeling, PRICELESS!!! | | |
NY United States Member #24178 October 16, 2005 2127 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:03 am - IP Logged | |
"I have heard other people being somewhat negative" If buy 1000 tickets every year, you can expect to win once every 175,000 years. If you play for 50 years there's stil only a 1 in 3500 chance that you'll be one of the people to win. Anyone who actually believes they'll win is extremely optimistic at best, and delusional at worst. That's not negativity, it's simple reality. | | |
Dallas, TX United States Member #60771 April 12, 2008 3809 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 19, 2009, 5:11 am - IP Logged | |
No, so I will have to prove myself wrong. | | |
Sacramento,Ca United States Member #1990 July 31, 2003 1442 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 19, 2009, 4:33 pm - IP Logged | |
We have the Mega Millions and Super lotto, but not a chance because I would know what to do with the money. You wouldn't see me on some talk show talking about how I lost millions of dollars with uncontrolled spending sprees or buying houses, cars, jewelry for family and friends. Yes, I would share, but not to the degree that other people who win do and don't have substantial saving to rely on 5 or 6 years later hence ending up on a talk show, talking about how I lost it all and now I have no friends and family. Winning large sums of money comes with great responsibility that if you're not careful can cause great heartache, hey, just ask West Virginia Winner, Mr. Jack Whitaker. $119 million after taxes!!!!!!!!! | | |
United States Member #80978 September 27, 2009 56 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 19, 2009, 8:53 pm - IP Logged | |
My life is going so bad right now I don't believe in anything anymore. | | |
Stroudsburg, PA United States Member #1860 July 11, 2003 2642 Posts Offline | | Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:51 pm - IP Logged | |
I'll believe it when I see it. | | |
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