Holy crap! My coworker hit the jackpot!!!

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
$250,000 / yr is a nice yearly income. I could easily live off that. I might even work so I could pay off the house loan faster.

yea but distributed over 20-25 years inflation/depreciation hits ya... as long as you invest most of it and not spend it all. That would take alotta restraint. 🙂

 

[wondersteve]

We go to Tunica, Mississippi with my fiances' parents. Her dad will walk around and play the $1 or $2 slots, the man will walk out with at least 2 grand PROFIT every time. They had to claim over 20 grand to the IRS for 2004.

I have quit playing myself, I just give my money to him to play.

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: wondersteve
We go to Tunica, Mississippi with my fiances' parents. Her dad will walk around and play the $1 or $2 slots, the man will walk out with at least 2 grand PROFIT every time. They had to claim over 20 grand to the IRS for 2004.

I have quit playing myself, I just give my money to him to play.

Uh wtf, how does he come out on top every time? Teach me! ^_^

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: wondersteve
We go to Tunica, Mississippi with my fiances' parents. Her dad will walk around and play the $1 or $2 slots, the man will walk out with at least 2 grand PROFIT every time. They had to claim over 20 grand to the IRS for 2004.

I have quit playing myself, I just give my money to him to play.

Uh wtf, how does he come out on top every time? Teach me! ^_^

Yeah, those are some d**m "loose slots", if you ask me. That doesn't seem possible, in this day and age of computer-controlled slots. Unless you had a copy of the PRNG, and run it alongside as a predictor or something. Or perhaps he's just like "Rainman", with slot machines, or something.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Yeah, those are some d**m "loose slots", if you ask me. That doesn't seem possible, in this day and age of computer-controlled slots. Unless you had a copy of the PRNG, and run it alongside as a predictor or something. Or perhaps he's just like "Rainman", with slot machines, or something.

That's not how it works. Sorry.

First of all it is statistically unlikely, although not impossible, that he wins every single time.

Secondly, an individual can't play enough games in a weekend to converge to the average payback. The casinos have a house edge because hundreds of millions of games get played every year. After that many games the 95% confidence range is pretty damn small, say + or - 0.5% The casual player can play how many games in a year? 10,000 would be a lot. The 95% confidence range for that many games is + or - 15%. That's a very large range. As an idividual you couldn't possibly play enough games to expect to converge to the average.

As for the RNG, they continually cycle through the lists, 100+ times a second. Even if you had a rough estimate about where you were in the list, you couldn't time the button presses in a way to make you win. Not going to happen. The only possible way it could help you is if you knew an extremely rare, high paying event was likely to occur. Then it might be to you advantage to start playing. In reality all it does is increase your chances at the $1,000,000 progressive from 1 in 50M to 1 in 10M. Not really helping you much there, is it? Fortunately there is no posible way you could know where the RNG is in it's sequence. 😉

 

[imthebadguy]

ahhhh...so he didnt quit yet 😉

 

[dr150]

Originally posted by: neovan
He went to Vegas this past weekend and was playing the $5 slots at the Paris Hotel and won $5 Million. Unfreakin' believable! I'm happy for him since he just got married too and he's only 28.

In other news...my life still sucks!!!

You will always suck. You are condemmed to suck for ETERNITY!!











Just kidding. 😛

 

[Freejack2]

Heh, knowing my luck if I ever won 5 million on the slots in Vegas I'd probably have Nevada, New York, and the US Government take their share in taxes and I'd end up with $5 when all was said and done. 😛

 

[Slacker]

There may be no lump sum option in this case, but there are companies that buy annuities.

 

[brigden]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Baked
His life is fvcked now.

Interesting, and in fact astute observation. We'd all like to win the lottery, but it frequently ruins people's lives.

That's because idiot white trash play the lottery.

 

[Mrvile]

Ok, am I the first to call pics?

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: tangent1138
this is what my parents always told me:

if you can't be happy without money, you can't be happy with money.

which is why one of my dates with a girl is always to get slurpees at 7-11.
if i can't have a good time with her doing that, then there's a problem.

i like that thing with the date wit the girl and 7/11. so true..need to a girl that isnt so materialistic.

i think i want to go buy a lottery ticket now.

 

[puffpio]

I don't think his life will change that much

5 Million won't drastically change someone's life...
figure after taxes it's like 2.5 million

Buy a nice house and new cars..new furniture..clothes..you have 1 million left.

Put that all into IRA's, life insurance and stuff.. and you got nothing left

so you are left as exactly the same person..but with a new house and new stuff..but still needing to work everyday..nothing has changed...with the money invested..your retirement is assured though...

 

[Conky]

dizzam, I am going to Vegas next month... I hope I have that kinda luck!

I figure my odds are above average with my gf being half-Mexican and all. :laugh:

Heck, I would settle for a few hundred on the blackjack tables. 😉

 

[tk149]

Hope he manages his money well. At work, we have several clients who received large lump sum payouts. It's pathetic how quickly some of these idiots blow through their money and wind up with nothing.