Stack47,
For over 2 years I have tried reasoning with you, cajoling you, and occasionally tricking you, in an effort to help you understand how probability and statistics relate to the lottery. Why? Because I thought there was a chance you might eventually emerge from the fog and understand. However, when you ask a question like this:
"If as you say the house edge effects every player the same, why don't your heros Catlin and Blue Jay make the same challenge on the next 100 outcomes?"..............
... it's clear - your Innumeracy is profound! You will never comprehend why the lottery is not deterministic and that the variance inherent in these stochastic processes is causing the short term winning streaks you observe. You are a sad case. I had students in the past who were unable to grasp the course material, but I never encountered one who arrogantly rejected established theory as well as modern computer methods to verify the theory. Consequently, I never had a desire to be sarcastic and/or nasty with them either.
And apparently you are not even going to provide the Pick-3 players with a convoluted and pitifully evasive attempt to explain away your claims of funding investments with Pick-3 winnings.
Until you understand why your quoted question above is a joke to mathematicians, I would recommend you hold off on Epstein's book.
Have a nice day.
--Jimmy4164
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"Betting systems votaries are spiritually akin to the proponents of perpetual motion
machines, butting their heads against the second law of thermodynamics."
The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic by Richard Arnold Epstein