Originally posted by dboz7:
"The key to sports and most gambling is money management.....dont chase your losses when losing and dont bet bigger when you are on a hot streak.
A much better way to go with the Pick 3 style games, in my opinion is to build your own jackpot, play numbers against your lottery without actually buying tickets instead putting the money in your own pot, pay yourself if you win and let it build interest if you lose. I posted this theory before and it did not go over to well."
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dboz7,
Your words have a great deal of merit. The overwhelming majority of us would be way ahead of the game if we applied your method. Unfortunately, most gamblers are either too foolish or too reckless to implement such a plan as yours. The odds and edge of lottery games are too formidable to be overcome by any system. The best we can do is to utilize correct play and sound money management in order to avoid making a bad thing even worse. Gamblers like the cheap thrill of engaging in risk-taking behaviors. There's no such thrill in saving, and most gamblers lack the discipline to do that anyway.
As for keeping or sharing secret systems of play, well...
Dutchman's Gold
by Walter Brennan
(Dutchman's gold,)
(Oh, Dutchman's gold.)
Brennan:
In The Arizona desert
Stands a giant of earth and stone
Mighty superstiyion mountain
With it's mystery and it's gold.
A miner, out prospectin'
Found his fortune and his fame
Found the gold of superstition
Just plain Dutchman, was his name.
Chorus:
Oh, the Dutchman was a gambler
And a party was his fun
But he kept his precious secret
Never trusting anyone.
And in death, he still is laughing
For the grave his secret holds
And the mighty superstition
Keeps the Dutchman's yellow gold.
Yello gold.
Brennan:
Mighty superstition mountain
Standing high and all alone
Once you told your precious secret
And you gave your soft, pure gold.
'Pache indians know the story
And in legend there is told
Many takes of the beginnin'
When you gave your yellow gold.
Now I'd like to dream and wonder
If someday you'll give again
The bounty of your treasure
To some lonely, strugglin' man.
And if you, in all your splender
May choose me to be the one
To find your precious treasure
Shinin' yella, in the sun.
Chorus:
Oh, the Dutch,an was a gambler
And a party was his fun
But he kept his precious secret
Never trusting anyone.
And in death, he still is laughing
For the grave his secret holds
And the mighty superstition
Keeps the Dutchman's yellow gold
Yellow gold.
Yellow gold.
Yellow gold.
Dutchman's gold!...