Gambler's Thread 02 (Nov 10 - Dec 25)

Re: Gambler's Thread 02 (Nov 10 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Mon Jan 22, 2018 10:46 am

How to Win the Lottery with Visualization

By Andrea Chalupa

Through Murphy's teachings of self-healing and visualization, Stafford says, she set her mind on winning $112 million. (She chose that number because Murphy taught that your visualization needs to be as specific as possible.)

She wrote the figure "$112 million" constantly, slept with the number under her pillow for weeks, meditated on it, and imagined how excited she would be once the money finally came into her life.

After four months of obsessive focus -- the first couple of weeks took considerable discipline, she says -- she stopped and let go. "Once you're in the flow of the energy," she says, "it's going to happen."

And it did. In May 2007, Stafford won $112 million in California's Mega Millions lottery.


Source: Daily Finance

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Re: Gambler's Thread 02 (Nov 10 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sun Aug 19, 2018 8:57 am

How an American unlocked the secret to Hong Kong horse racing, winning almost US$1 billion

In the 1980s and 90s, computer nerd Bill Benter did the impossible: he wrote an algorithm that beat the unpredictability of the racetrack, winning big in the process

BY KIT CHELLEL

Veteran know you cannot beat the horses. There are too many variables and too many possible outcomes. A front-runner breaks a leg. Jockeys fall. Champion thorough­breds decide, for no apparent reason, that they are simply not in the mood.

American sportswriter Roger Kahn once called the sport “animated”. Play for long enough and failure is not just likely but inevitable, so the wisdom goes.


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Postby behappyalways » Sun Nov 25, 2018 5:57 pm

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Re: Gambler's Thread 02 (Nov 10 - Dec 18)

Postby winston » Sat Jan 26, 2019 9:52 am

How to Influence Slot Machines with Your Mind

By Jim Francis

Source: Mind Power - Remote Influence Techniques

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Re: Gambler's Thread 02 (Nov 10 - Dec 18)

Postby winston » Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:16 pm

How Not to Bet

by Vishal Khandelwal

90-year-old Jeanne Louise Calment struck a deal with a forty-seven-year-old lawyer named André-François Raffray.

Raffray agreed to pay a low monthly subsistence payment of 2,500 francs to Jeanne in exchange for the right to own Jeanne house when she dies.

The ninety-year-old French woman had already exceeded the French life expectancy by more than ten years. She could die any day.

Ms. Calment turned out to be the biggest outlier in human history. When she died aged 122, her age at death exceeded the lawyer's age at this death by forty-five years. He ended up paying Calment the equivalent of €140,000. That was more than double the apartment's value.

Where did Raffray go wrong? His blunder was in taking the statistics and applying it to a sample size of one.

Legendary investor, Howard Marks relates a funny story his father told him about a gambler who bet everything on a race with only one horse in it. How could he lose? "Halfway around the track, the horse jumped over the fence and ran away. Invariably things can get worse than people expect."

Jeanne and Raffray's story has a valuable lesson for investors. Never bet the farm on a single stock no matter how certain you are about the outcome. You never know when the luck hands you the equivalent of a crazy horse or a supercentenarian.

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Postby behappyalways » Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:55 pm

S$12 million TOTO jackpot won by 1 Quick Pick ticket bought at Bukit Batok
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Postby behappyalways » Wed Aug 26, 2020 1:19 pm

S'pore man hooked on 4D after winning top prize, gambles S$30,000 in 2 months
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Postby behappyalways » Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:53 am

Super long queue at Hougang S'pore Pools outlet that sold 12 Group 1 prize tickets in last 24 years
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Re: Gambler's Thread 02 (Nov 10 - Dec 20)

Postby winston » Mon Feb 21, 2022 1:22 pm

Going All-In: Investing vs. Gambling

By STEPHAN A. ABRAHAM

Gamblers have fewer ways to mitigate losses than investors do.

Investors have more sources of relevant information than gamblers do.

Over time, the odds will be in your favor as an investor and not in your favor as a gambler.


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Postby behappyalways » Wed Apr 06, 2022 2:40 pm

Penang man wins biggest-ever RM95 million M'sia Toto prize & shares it with wife
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