88% Of Americans Gamble In Some Form. 95% Lose ...  PRO

88% of Americans gamble in some form. 95% lose more than they bet. Winners get back less than half of what they bet. No one in his or her right mind would invest in anything with such a loss record. Statisticians have shown that a person is more likely to survive 88 rounds of Russian roulette than to win a typical state lottery! A person is seven times more likely to be hit by lightning and one half million times more likely to die in a plane crash.

The typical odds against winning a state lottery are five to ten million to one. If a person buys fifty lottery tickets every week, he will win on the average once in every 5000 years. In short, statisticians conclude that the chances of winning the lottery are about the same if you don’t play! Mark Twain was right when he...

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