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Winning A Jackpot Uses Up Your Luck For?

Not at all.

[ 26 ]

[ 68.4% ]

A day.

[ 1 ]

[ 2.6% ]

A week.

[ 0 ]

[ 0.0% ]

A month.

[ 1 ]

[ 2.6% ]

A year.

[ 2 ]

[ 5.3% ]

Five years.

[ 1 ]

[ 2.6% ]

Ten years.

[ 0 ]

[ 0.0% ]

Twenty years.

[ 2 ]

[ 5.3% ]

One hundred years.

[ 1 ]

[ 2.6% ]

Forever.

[ 4 ]

[ 10.5% ]

Total valid votes

[ 38 ]

Discarded votes

[ 2 ]

BobP

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Jun 6, 2004, 2:20 am

How lucky are you going to be after winning a jackpot? How long before you feel lucky again, not lucky for having won, but lucky enough to win something worth winning again?

Is it possible a big jackpot can use up all your good luck forever? Some people have come back and won again, is that a good test, wonder how lucky they were between jackpots?

Nothing is better than winning a lottery jackpot. A 3# prize is better than nothing. Therefore a 3# prize is better than a jackpot. Isn't english fun?

BobP
four4me

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Jun 6, 2004, 7:13 am

An old guy once told me everybody has 15 minutes worth of luck every day. Now it might come all at once all 15 minutes worth or spread out over the course of the day. I know everybody's gonna have questions or doubts about this but consider this. Your driving down the street a car comes through the intersection you almost hit it but you don't 15 seconds of luck maybe, maybe not. That cup of coffee on your desk ever almost tipped it over but caught it just before it spilled.
There are all kinds of luck and most of us experience it every day in some form shape or fashion. Where picking numbers is concerned and channeling luck to work for you is almost an art form or something that needs developing there are people who's luck is better, different at different times during the day or night. Your walking or driving down the street you see a cab with the number 1948 then you see a tag number with the same number and low and behold you see this number several more times. Then a bell rings you play that number and it hits luck you say maybe, maybe not. But if you saw that number so many times and didn't play it and it hit who's dumb fault was that. You'd say to your self I saw that number every where I looked and it hit and I didn't play it. Luck is all around you but you have to learn to pick up on it (recognize it) or let it pass you by.
DoctorEw220

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Jun 6, 2004, 12:26 pm

i voted for not at all because it people have won multi-million dollar jackpots more than once.

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RJOh

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Jun 6, 2004, 12:55 pm

Quote: Originally posted by DoctorEw220 on June 06, 2004

i voted for not at all because it people have won multi-million dollar jackpots more than once.

I read some where (don't remember where) that the percent of big winners among previous jackpot winners is higher than among the general playing public so luck may not be a factor. That small group may have different playing habits than the general public.
RJOh

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lottoarchitect

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Jun 9, 2004, 5:14 am

Well, I vote for not at all. I

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tg636

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Jun 9, 2004, 1:57 pm

>That small group may have different playing habits than the general public.
I have a theory that your chances of winning increase if you don't care at all about winning and in fact dread the whole idea of winning. If someone has already won big, they have lost the desperate crazed need the rest of us have to win a jackpot and escape whatever dreariness we have in our lives. If they buy a ticket, they know they absolutely don't need the money and in fact would be taking the money away from some poor slob like me who really needs it, so they try to avoid that embarrassment of riches by really hoping they don't win or not thinking about it, which paradoxically makes them more likely to win again. It is, I believe, the same principle that applies to getting a beautiful woman into bed. Desperation makes failure more likely.
tg636

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Jun 9, 2004, 1:59 pm

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Rick G

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Jun 12, 2004, 1:19 pm

I also voted for "not at all"...a woman in my town won IL Little Lotto jackpot twice in 6 months (when it was 143,000 to 1 odds).
Also, you all probably remember the 73 year old guy from MI who won their Lotto game twice in a few years. It happened a few weeks ago.
I'm taking into consideration the concept of 15 minutes a day of luck...gonna start tracking that, because there are times in the day when you luck out at something in your job, etc. and maybe there is a pattern to that??? Worth checking out.

Posted 4/6: IL Pick 3 midday and evening until they hit: 555, 347 (str8).
megamillionaire

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Jun 12, 2004, 5:46 pm

Your luck only stops if you stop playing. I've read about several people who've won at least two jackpots. Lightning does strike the same place more than once.

Megamillionaire

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A man must consider what a rich realm he leaves when he becomes a conformist.
BobP

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Jun 13, 2004, 1:23 am

Quote: Originally posted by megamillionaire on June 12, 2004

Your luck only stops if you stop playing. I've read about several people who've won at least two jackpots. Lightning does strike the same place more than once.

I remember the first guy I ever read about winning a second jackpot was something like 18 years into the 20 years of annunity payments when he won again. Maybe his big money winning luck was used up for 18 years. BobP
golotto

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Jun 13, 2004, 2:40 am
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dphillips

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Jun 18, 2004, 10:02 pm

I voted...once a year, then again, I was being generous! I read in the newspaper -- approximately two years ago -- about the California woman winning the lottery twice (in the same year.) In fact, the caption was: LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE! Then again, some people have the midas touch and some people do not!
Who in their right minds do not want to be around someone who is successful/lucky?
nt22

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Jun 22, 2004, 12:13 pm

who needs luck after a jackpot
CASH Only

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Jun 29, 2004, 8:33 pm

No luck is better than bad luck.

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