I never play the lottery, but I have won big at the casino on three separate occasions. I used to play poker quite a bit, and we would chase after the bad-beat jackpot whenever the pot got really big. I was sitting at the table and witnessed the bad beat hit five times, and of those five I was one of the two hands involved during three of them, so I got to take 25% of the pot. Twice my share was a little over $20,000, and once it was $25,000, so from those three occasions I won over $65,000 in total. That was back in the 2007-2010 timeframe. I don't play there anymore because they since changed the rules on the bad beat and made it almost impossible to hit. Anyway, once I got into pinball I found that the gambling/poker theme was something I liked so I started collecting those games. I now have World Poker Tour, Riverboat Gambler, Vegas, Monte Carlo, Pistol Poker, and I just picked up a High Roller Casino at TPF last week.