LANSING, June 19, 2006 - Some people might consider themselves lucky. Then they meet Robert Thompson.
Thompson, a 51-year-old "professional" Lottery player from Saginaw, has won at least $500 in 10 different states, including West Virginia, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, to name a few. He's also won $5,000 "a couple of times."
While those wins are impressive, they don't match his most recent of win a $140,980 prize in the Michigan Lottery's Fantasy 5 game in the June 13 drawing.
This came from another thread .... it's being properly questioned there about how much he spent etc etc etc etc.
But for the sake of this thread lets make a few assumptions. First, let's assume this guy is precisely what the blurb says he is. A professional lottery play. A person making a living off it.
Four4me, or JAP69 also mentioned someone who'd had a system and beat Ill Lill a Lot, enough so's they knew him by his first name at the lottery shop. So they changed the matrix, but left him with his first name.
Let's assume these two stories are true. Let's also assume LottoVantage has a system that works. Let's, for this brief discussion, assume Alonzo White actually had a system that worked, and that his famous prediction was not a fluke.
If these stories are true and we've heard them, so have the lottery organizations. They've probably heard a lot more of them than we have.
And if these stories, or even one of them is true, the lotteries know they can be beaten by system players.
Now, allowing for them knowing this truth (for the sake of discussion),
- Is it more probable, knowing human behavior where financial loss is concerned, they would simply sit back and attempt to do nothing about it?
- Or is it more probable they'd be pro-active in their attempts to discourage development of systems, to attempt to assure all players the systems can't be beaten? Attempt to discourage any person they could identify as a system player, and cast aspersions, attempt to humiliate him on the issue?
If the basic premise is true I think the second is a lead-pipe cinch.
Now, where would the lotteries locate players who are inclined to develop systems, so's they could attempt to discourage them?
The only place I can think of is a website/forum. The biggest and best they can find. A website providing the best tools. A website with a predictions page for members, which they'd find handy for keeping an eye open for people who might be moving in the direction of their bankrolls.
They'd do a websearch. Peer at the horizon through a telescope. And yell, "Laaaaaaand ahoy!"
So. Maybe none of these stories we've all heard and many of us have seen are true.
But there remains a burning question.
How would the jackals who attempt to kill any interest in lottery systems, who give their daily litanies across the threads about how systems cannot beat the lotteries,
How How How How would these people behave differently if they worked for the lotteries than they are behaving now?
Jack