What's up, 'Hawk? I agree with you 100% about giving help to people which is why I started this thread. Everyone contributes in their own way hoping to give others a different and possibly better insight with accomplishing their goal(s) here. My way is to demonstrate the efficiency or inefficiency of how they spend (play) their money on numbers. There is absolutely no book sense involved here, only common sense and the mathematical approach is self explanatory. If what players are currently using works for them and is producing profit then there's nothing for them to worry about. Correct?
If it's not, then I just may have some validation here. Winning a lot on a small one time play is very good but, one often spends the rest of the time giving it all back by trying to "duplicate" the same win. Profit was definitely made and if you give it all back then you actually haven't lost anything...neither have you won anything in the sense of "keeps". So, what's the use? If it's only for fun then it's all good. Trying to get ahead? Not gonna happen.
Now, I've never heard of the state having rights to block tickets sales due to high purchase rates but, I don't know everything. It would seem to me that the vendors would be tickled to death over players spending large sums of money on playing these games. Why? Because most people don't know how to play it to their advantage and all that money stays in the cash drawer or safe after the winning number(s) have been posted. They're not losing anything whatsoever, 'Hawk. Believe me.
Take this example: The vendor has made $1,000 in ticket sales so far and hasn't given anything back. I come along and spend $400 to get the $500 str8 prize. Now, he's at $1,400 plus with all the other sales from players so let's say $1,600 total at this point. I hit str8 and simply get my $400 + only $100 of his ticket sales which puts him at $1,100 now. All that's happened here is I got my money back, smartly, and made $100 in the process whlie he still has $100 more than before I came in. He simply gave my money back.
I have never spent all that in one store, though, because it's not good to hold up other business sales. When I was playing like that , I'd break it down to $100 per store at off peak hours. Thing is, they really would think they were giving me $400 in profit but, I was just getting back what others had already played and lost and, ultimately, all of my personal money.
Finally, in your last statement, you say "if" one get (3) to (8) right (hits) per week then there's less risk. What type of hits? Are you sure you'll get those hits and will the hits consistently offset what you're spending and recover it effectively? This is a HUGE "if", 'Hawk. The idea is to get ahead and stay ahead at whatever cost as far as I'm concerned because the system has absolutely no mercy on players. Positive cash flow is the name of my game and I honestly earn every bit of what I make doing this.
I really wish I knew of a system where people could spend very little and win big consistently...but I just don't. LUCK is in control of that system all the time everytime. These are only my opinions, as usual. It was good to hear from ya' again, too!
MHS