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Do you believe lottery officials stalk certain players?

No.

[ 24 ]

[ 43.6% ]

Yes, players who claim a lot.

[ 12 ]

[ 21.8% ]

Yes, players who know the games are rigged.

[ 4 ]

[ 7.3% ]

Yes, players who can predict numbers too well.

[ 15 ]

[ 27.3% ]

Total valid votes

[ 55 ]

Discarded votes

[ 5 ]

cottoneyedjoe

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Aug 12, 2022, 3:36 pm

Here's a containment thread for nobody in particular. Do you think the lottery stalks players? If so, what kind of players are they most interested in? Feel free to share your experiences being stalked by the lottery.
garyo1954

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Aug 12, 2022, 4:37 pm

LOL! Thread of the day!

No, the nickel and dime player is not even a blip on their radar.
Gramps with his loaf of bread, gas, and 5 QPs. He's cool.
Granny getting her dozen eggs and grandkids ages. No problem.
That guy/gal who just left the office getting a 12 pack, a hot pocket, 20 QPS and 20 scratch-offs. Nothing to worry about.

If anything once you start playing 10-25 large (say Steve Player money) every draw, you may raise some eyebrows.
But the lottery is not a closed environment like a casino in Vegas with umpteen cameras and security guards watching.

There are more people watching you go in and out of the store than there are lottery officials. Which means if you're trekking to 7-11 every draw with $1000 to buy lottery tickets, you more likely gonna get robbed on the sidewalk.

G

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rcbbuckeye

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Aug 12, 2022, 6:01 pm

ONE person voted yes.

Take a wild a$$ guess who that might be....

CAN'T WIN IF YOU'RE NOT IN

A DOLLAR AND A DREAM (OR $2)
hearsetrax

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Aug 12, 2022, 6:21 pm

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Aug 12, 2022
ONE person voted yes.

Take a wild a$$ guess who that might be....

I discarded my vote

thars times I see them working on the machines and wonder what kind of BS are they up to now
Stack47

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Aug 12, 2022, 6:33 pm

Quote: Originally posted by cottoneyedjoe on Aug 12, 2022
Here's a containment thread for nobody in particular. Do you think the lottery stalks players? If so, what kind of players are they most interested in? Feel free to share your experiences being stalked by the lottery.

Was looking at the top pick-3 predictors list and in the past 30 days out of the 8 players showing a profit, only one won a significant amount of imaginary money by wagering $13,000 to win $5000. Even if they wagered real money at the same store, I doubt any lottery would stalk that type of play.

There is a pick-4 predictor with a lifetime of $9000 wagers to win $69,000, but real winnings like that would require a W-2G and at the worst the lottery might investigate the winner for being a 10%er. Most of them buy scratch-offs too and they might be stalked for other reasons. Lotteries probably do investigate the players cashing hundreds of winning tickets a year though probably to find the identity of the players that sold their winning tickets at a discount.

After the Nick Perry live ball drawing fix, it's probably next to impossible to fix random live ball drawings. As for computer RNGs, someone on the "inside" could profit thousands of month without ever being noticed. Maybe the lotteries using computer drawings should be spending more time and money on their "random" drawing process.

Won't stop one or two of our overly paranoid posters for claiming they are being stalked by a lottery or the men in black.

"When will we ever learn?"
Coin Toss

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Aug 12, 2022, 6:41 pm

My vote was No but I want to add something, it seems that in Massachusetts an inordinate number of 'wise guys' have won jackpots, just perhaps the Mass. lottery watches them.

Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners.

There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
MzDuffleBaglady

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Aug 12, 2022, 6:45 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Aug 12, 2022
My vote was No but I want to add something, it seems that in Massachusetts an inordinate number of 'wise guys' have won jackpots, just perhaps the Mass. lottery watches them.

What are you going to do about it, if the statement is true?

What?
Soledad

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Aug 12, 2022, 7:19 pm

Quote: Originally posted by cottoneyedjoe on Aug 12, 2022
Here's a containment thread for nobody in particular. Do you think the lottery stalks players? If so, what kind of players are they most interested in? Feel free to share your experiences being stalked by the lottery.

The ones that win a lot. After they claim.

Sometimes you do the right thing just because it’s right.

Life's a game of mathematics, if you can't figure that out I don't know what to tell you.
GiveFive

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Aug 12, 2022, 7:20 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Aug 12, 2022
My vote was No but I want to add something, it seems that in Massachusetts an inordinate number of 'wise guys' have won jackpots, just perhaps the Mass. lottery watches them.

The Mass Lottery not only watched them, they prosecuted them.

The Massachusetts Lottery also offered that online game with a flaw in it the some high rollers from Michigan were legally able to exploit. The Mass Lottery shut the game down as a result. G5

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Stat$talker

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Aug 12, 2022, 7:25 pm

Quote: Originally posted by rcbbuckeye on Aug 12, 2022
ONE person voted yes.

Take a wild a$$ guess who that might be....

"Take a wild a$$ guess who that might be...."

Uuuuh, letme seee..!!

Ya wouldn't b tawlkin bout Ole DoOkEyStIcKjOe naah wouldja?... or maybe dat Canadian Playa649?... If not, it beatz ME..!! Musta been YOOOU..Texez 2 Stepper !!

Cauze I AIN'T VOTED..!!

Hell, I don't care for Demokratz, Republikanz or Gamblercratz..!!

-Stat$talker

...MATH... The final Stochastic frontier...

These are the Lottery Voyages of Stat$talker..!!

The ongoing Mission,..to seek out the Laws of "Probability Math"...

to master its rules to invoke...to Conquer ALL Major Jackpots..!!

...To boldly go,... Where NO Player has gone before...!!
db101

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Aug 12, 2022, 8:05 pm

I was stalked by the lottery. I had won a free ticket for the amazing feat of missing most of the numbers. When I redeemed my free ticket, it lost by not matching any numbers. That was my first clue my numbers were being thwarted. Then one day when I was coming home to my trailer, I was startled to see men wearing jackets that said LOTTERY PLAYER STALKING AGENCY rummaging through my papers. They absconded with my computer that held all of my secret lottery calculations. That was my second clue.
rcbbuckeye

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Aug 12, 2022, 8:09 pm

Quote: Originally posted by db101 on Aug 12, 2022
I was stalked by the lottery. I had won a free ticket for the amazing feat of missing most of the numbers. When I redeemed my free ticket, it lost by not matching any numbers. That was my first clue my numbers were being thwarted. Then one day when I was coming home to my trailer, I was startled to see men wearing jackets that said LOTTERY PLAYER STALKING AGENCY rummaging through my papers. They absconded with my computer that held all of my secret lottery calculations. That was my second clue.

You forgot to change disguises and change to a different car before going home.

CAN'T WIN IF YOU'RE NOT IN

A DOLLAR AND A DREAM (OR $2)
rcbbuckeye

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Aug 12, 2022, 8:09 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Stat$talker on Aug 12, 2022
"Take a wild a$$ guess who that might be...."

Uuuuh, letme seee..!!

Ya wouldn't b tawlkin bout Ole DoOkEyStIcKjOe naah wouldja?... or maybe dat Canadian Playa649?... If not, it beatz ME..!! Musta been YOOOU..Texez 2 Stepper !!

Cauze I AIN'T VOTED..!!

Hell, I don't care for Demokratz, Republikanz or Gamblercratz..!!

-Stat$talker

Suuuure you didn't....

CAN'T WIN IF YOU'RE NOT IN

A DOLLAR AND A DREAM (OR $2)
sully16

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Ringleader

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Aug 12, 2022, 9:27 pm

Quote: Originally posted by db101 on Aug 12, 2022
I was stalked by the lottery. I had won a free ticket for the amazing feat of missing most of the numbers. When I redeemed my free ticket, it lost by not matching any numbers. That was my first clue my numbers were being thwarted. Then one day when I was coming home to my trailer, I was startled to see men wearing jackets that said LOTTERY PLAYER STALKING AGENCY rummaging through my papers. They absconded with my computer that held all of my secret lottery calculations. That was my second clue.

Check under your bed!
Stat$talker

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Aug 13, 2022, 11:10 am

Quote: Originally posted by db101 on Aug 12, 2022
I was stalked by the lottery. I had won a free ticket for the amazing feat of missing most of the numbers. When I redeemed my free ticket, it lost by not matching any numbers. That was my first clue my numbers were being thwarted. Then one day when I was coming home to my trailer, I was startled to see men wearing jackets that said LOTTERY PLAYER STALKING AGENCY rummaging through my papers. They absconded with my computer that held all of my secret lottery calculations. That was my second clue.

...Ooh, You still hallucinatin?..We know YOU kain't accurately RECALL whut YOU'VE claim to've seen...az you've proven dat".. wit cho "nice round numbaz"..naah, how big wuz dat MeGaOcTaGoNaL numba again?..

...MATH... The final Stochastic frontier...

These are the Lottery Voyages of Stat$talker..!!

The ongoing Mission,..to seek out the Laws of "Probability Math"...

to master its rules to invoke...to Conquer ALL Major Jackpots..!!

...To boldly go,... Where NO Player has gone before...!!

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