What a week (well, what a Saturday anyway)......

Saturday slow playing:

Free ticket and $3 ($3) on 2 $1 5X The Money

$2 (2 x $1) on $1 Spooky Loot

$2 (2 x $1) on $1 Holiday Cash

Free ticket and $2 ($2) on 2 $1 Junior Jumbo Bucks

2 free tickets and $125 ($100 + $20 + $5)¹ on 3 $2 Loteria

$50 (Jumbo $10) on $20 Millionaire Jumbo Bucks

A $154 profit that day

Monday:

$25 loss (bought a Millionaire Jumbo Bucks and some Cash 3 and got nothing)

Tuesday:

Another $25 loss (same stuff -- I'm through with the Millionaire Jumbo Bucks for a while)

Wednesday:

Free ticket on $1 Holiday Cash

Free ticket on $5 Giant Jumbo Bucks

$10 loss

The KACHING Meter for January 9, 2009:  19.6

¹A brand new, single-ticket record (previous was 7 $100 winners).

The week went from good to bad.  Started really good.......went really bad when I bought those 2 Millionaire Jumbo Bucks and didn't win even a free ticket.  A guy at work told me he bought 8 of those Millionaire Jumbo Bucks ($160 worth) and did not win a dime.......not even a free ticket.  Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.......... (He does buy lots of tickets at a time.....not a whole roll, but he'll buy something like 8 $10 tickets or so at a time -- and he's hit countless $250 and $600 winners on the $10 Millionaire Mania tickets while I can't hit more than $25 on that particular ticket).

I went ahead and posted this today because I have no plans on buying any tickets (not even Cash 3) today.  I do plan on slow playing tomorrow at the tobacco mart.

Until next time, may you cash in on some nice winnings on your tickets.