Quoted from John_I:If he has been doing this a long time, I seriously doubt he is ahead of the game. Anyone putting that much into the lottery does not understand math. I have a friend whose mother is addicted to scratch off tickets. She will brag up and down about the times she won $500 or $5000 but she neglects to say how much she plays every day and how long she has been doing it. She says she does it because one day she will win big and give it all to her kids. Riiiiiiiiiight.
Not trying to be too off topic, but I see a lot of people talking about scratchers being a rip-off, worst odds, etc., which would have been me until I read this article about a lady who won a multiple times and the reported surmising how it was done, pretty interesting.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/lottery/Lottery_Legend_How_Joan_Ginther_won_millions_4_times.html