Can I place bets instead of buying a lottery ticket?

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How many tickets have you been buying to manage to win 'a couple of cars'?

In short, a lot, over the past ~5 years and yet still very lucky going by the numbers. I'm well up vs spend, but certainly outside of the norm I imagine.

My friend is probably a more accurate reflection with modest spend every now and then on cars that excite him and he won a Jeep Trackhawk before I won my cars :) But likewise I have a number of friends who have bought many tickets with no luck.
 
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Does anyone wonder where some of the millionaires are now, or related to someone who won big? With 2 draws per week, the lottery creates around 100 millionaires per year, which would bring it to around 3000 now after 30 years. That would be like having 1 millionaire in every major town and city in the UK.

Our family cleaner's daughter had a fiance who won a £92k share of the jackpot at his work's syndicate. That's the closest I've known anyone winning big.

I won £88 off 4 numbers, parents £105 off 4 numbers. Both old style £1 lotto.

Had £9 from a £1 scratch card and £15 from a £2 scratch card.

Before the lotto was a thing, it was the football pools and a friend's father won £1000 off that.
 
Never understood people who are so anti lottery. It's 3.50 CHF for a line, chances of winning are tiny but why not. No one will ever miss the money. I buy it maybe once every few weeks/month as it's amusing to joke about it in a bar etc.

Some people just too uptight about stupid things. (The same people that are probably incredibly inefficient in their salary/lifestyle etc).

Live and let live.
 
The lottery is more like giving money to charity and you might win a prize, rather than gambling tbh.
Hilarious. I wondered if anyone would try and virtue-signal about how, for them, it was all about the charity.
 
You're better off sticking to that and stop wasting your time. The odds of winning on lotteries are ridiculously small, and you're better off doing something else with the money. You are highly highly unlikely to manage to "beat the system", you are thinking about the wrong things to actually make any money.
You've missed pretty much every point.
 
I’ve always thought that the lotto was a tax on the poor and been against it since the national lottery came out.

But I’ve joined the work syndicate at each of my workplaces, as I’m against them winning and quitting working and myself having to keep working even more. lol

One place we lost upwards of £100s in winnings as one person in the syndicate was such a **** and awkward, we didn’t claim our winning tickets in time. So I binned that off..

Personally I closed my online account, I only played it when there was serval roll overs and could lose hundreds during those weeks till the “mega” jackpots was won.

I do know a person who won the jackpot twice, admittedly two of the smaller pots but they are some what of a professional gambler.. horse, slots and casinos.

My weekly flutter is football results.. on a game I place a pound bet on the first goal scorer, score line and then the double on the same first goal scorer and score line. Three pounds in total.

I’m currently up at the moment this season, got King Kai and 2-0, and 1-1 spuds vs foxes, I did have Vardy first goal scorer.. Spursyness is inevitable. Lmao

It keeps the games more interesting :)

I do invest in the stock market, most of that is in market trackers and I don’t see it as a gamble. The rule of thumb is to have less than 10% of your portfolio in more risky assets, I have far less than 10% at the moment and of course set an exit strategy for when you are in a winning and losing positions, even before you buy the stock/shares; of course you have to stick to the strategy by setting the limits straight away.
 
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