When I read other forums here at The Lottery Post, I some times learn something new. There are some incredibly smart lottery players posting their thoughts on playing smartly in just about any forum you'd care to read. I don't consider myself among that group of exceptionally smart players. As for me, it's just that I have lottery software installed on my PC, and all it does is point out things to me that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. Without that software, I'm a typical or average player.
There are very smart players posting in this Florida Fantasy5 forum too. I've seen the results they've produced for themselves by using techniques that savvy players have used for years without the aid of lottery software. I used to know guys that did pretty well playing the lottery without software. One thing about them though is that they all were willing to commit more money to playing than I ever was. One guy in particular ticked me off by saying to me "Scared money wins no money." Although I didn't say it aloud, I responded to that comment with "Yeah. And big money loses a lot more than I lose." That's a true because the most frequent thing that happens to each and every single lottery player is they win nothing.
Maybe those guys that did pretty well didn't do as well as I thought they did. After all, they never showed me their big stack of losing tickets. All I ever saw was that winning scratchoff or a hand full of cash they just collected at some lottery retailer. I guy I knew used to love to go to a horse track not too far from me. Every once in a while he'd come in to work with a big wad of cash and flash it around. (Which I thought was very tacky of him) One day another coworker said to me "Ask Andy to show you a wad of bills equal to the size of bills he's lost betting on the ponies. I guarantee you it'd make him quit going to the track." Ya know, the guy that said that to me could not have been more correct if his life depended upon it.
I'm sure that if I had saved them all, I could produce a massive stack of losing lottery tickets. A stack that would be bigger than I'd ever want to see. But I'm still going to keep on playing the lottery in spite of it. For me personally , I enjoy looking at the software, analyzing the numbers, and laying down my cash bet. Of course I'd LOVE to win a jackpot, but it's OK if I don't. I, at the very least, have the prospect available to me that I might win back everything I ever lost and a whole lot more to boot! And my stack of losing tickets, as big as it may be, wont ever be as big as the stack that the guy who said to me "Scared money wins no money" has in his possession. G5