Well, funny story about that (sniff sniff)...
I need to start playing midday and evening in one visit. I guess I'm afraid of facing the total size of the bets, and think I'll change strategy after THIS drawing hits. I only played midday and never made it back to a terminal. After 6pm, I know I'm in danger of missing it, because the family is having dinner and I keep having to run out just when the dishes and kid wrangling for bedtime. I decided to stay in - the wife had that "look", and of course, as it goes...
I would have had that box x5, and yes $250 would have been nice, but since I had x5 on boxed 256, and those 25 and 200 dollar scratchers across the state line in NY, all in this week, it softens the blow. Come on, 503! Hard to believe it was only late February that I had a 2200 dollar score on 254, two days after I missed it in that same order.
Have any of you found that, going in to play in a given locale, whether brand new to you or a regular spot, that there's an "ambience" affects how much you put down? I hate the gas station and convenience stores where in a heart beat, you go from no one behind you, to a dozen people, either eaves dropping on me laying out heavy on a certain number ( and sometimes wanting to strike up a distracting conversation) or wanting attention to other store items and there's only one counter person. I going to miss my bets because so and so wants a ham and cheese sandwich! There's some joints, like the local supermarket customer service, where if I see it's a certain staffer, I bypass it, unless I'm under the gun, draw deadline wise. Wish I could be more organized, with prepared tickets of my regular bets - maybe I take that as a sure sign of senior citizen status, since I see so many toting plastic slipcovered sets of tickets and tattered shards of paper. I'm still not copping to middle age yet, so I have my ONE note, cupped in my hand like a test cheat sheet, that's IT!
I have one joint that is my go to locale when every minutes counts - the lady is lightning on the keyboard! I keep running into the same dude that ALSO plays it last minute, and he has the handfull of tickets and notes and verbalizes number after number with no forseeable end in sight! The deadline cut off has come a few times with him at the plate - you can see the shoulders drop as other regulars come in and see him at bat. It's humorous - as long as I do get my bets in. After betting, sure in my favorite haunt, I've been known to chit chat on a slow exit with other regulars, but I don't want to hear ANOTHER number that sounds too good to leave alone.
I'm keep 374 in the mix, but with a tad less weight.
And come on doubles! 449 119 122 884