so if your rich christian who's not against buying lottery, will you buy...

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meanwoman

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...a lot each time since you have higher? chance to win? say: 10000 dollars each time.
''HIGHER CHANCE'' i mean you will have 10000 tickets, and others have 1 ticket. so you have higher chance to win because you are rich.
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ArthurS

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confusing question......... once again don't look for other peoples opinions in matters that are personal between you as a christian and God.
 
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Fedupwiththecraphere

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A "higher chance to win"?

What does THAT mean?

Explain, please.

My point: "10000 dollars each time" is meaningless unless you relate it to the specifics of the lottery such as the cost of a chance and the number of chances available.

If you enter a "pick a number from 1 to 1,000,000" lottery, and each ticket costs $1, then 1 ticket will give you a 1 in a million chance of winning. Buying 10,000 tickets will cost you $10,000 and give you 1 chance in 100 of winning.
Buying 1,000,000 tickets will cost you $1,000,000, but it will guarantee a 100% chance of winning.

The 2 main problems of that are that the payout is parimutual (more than one person can pick the winning number, and the calculated total win is split evenly among the multiple winners) and the payout is always less than 1:1, IOW, the "house" takes a cut and that cut can be VERY substantial.

The ONLY way you can consistently win at gambling is to BE the house. Players are mathematically destined to lose.

Let me put this another way: There is ALWAYS at least 1 winner in a lottery. But the money he gets off that win has been paid for by MILLIONS of losing tickets.
 
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Bear

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Hell no, lol.

Yes, it increases your odds, but the thing is...Odds of 1 in 175 million are horrible, odds of 1 in 1 million are also horrible, even though they are better

What she's saying is that your odds decrease -x- fold for buying -x- tickets, as opposed to a single ticket
 
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HammerBrother

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Every lottery ticket you buy has the SAME exact chances as the next one, unless it's a different lottery game.

Higher chances my butt.

Edit: True, but I'd rather give that money away to poor people than spend it on lotto tickets.
 
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Joanne

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No, waste of money, paper, and kinda of being selfish, cause buying of 10000 times instead of 1 time a day, will decrease the chance for those who is in need of money n those who r desperate
 
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midnightmoon

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I know one person who won a HUGE lottery. by association. The drawing he won, he had purchased like 350 tickets for.

And I dont know why these other posts are confused. Its actually rich people that spend the most per person on the lottery. Lots of poor people buy tickets, but they buy 1, 2, maybe even 5 or 10 tickets. The rich people are playing hundreds of tickets each drawing.

And that person I know by association.... I wouldnt call him filthy rich before hand, but certainly well off. i only know him by association, but he isnt reputed as a gambling addict, and he had enough money to spare 350$ bucks on lottery tickets.
 
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