A Community of Michigan Lottery Players
And being able to:
We would love to hear your thoughts.
In Max Rubin’s classic Comp City he describes a few different slot play methods:
Play all your coins through one machine one time only and then move on.
Take a small portion of your bankroll (5-10%) and go for the big jackpot.
Put in 5-10% of your bankroll and gamble until it is gone or until you’ve doubled up your initial stake.
Essentially, walking through the casino and trying to play every machine one time only.
Do you do something similar when playing the Michigan Lottery Online?
Are you loyal to one online instant game or do you like to work your way through the whole collection?
Do you play the high variance or big top prize games looking for a big jackpot? Set a win goal? We would love to know.
Yes, per research that we relayed in Part I
Professor Justin Wolfers in an article in the New York Times provides more background on the importance of that Lottery research.
Happiness here being defined as greater life satisfaction. From Professor’s Wolfers article:
Social scientists widely view questions about life satisfaction as eliciting a broad-based evaluation of one’s life while questions about happiness yield responses more related to current moods or feelings.
An interesting passage:
the same authors find that lottery winners are prescribed fewer mental health drugs.
And another:
Contrary to popular stereotypes, those who win hundreds of thousands of dollars don’t blow most of their winnings at once. Instead, they slowly spend their newfound wealth over many years.
The whole article is fascinating, highly recommended.
Yes – according to researchers (via the excellent Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution).
We surveyed a large sample of Swedish lottery players about their psychological well-being and analyzed the data following pre-registered procedures. Relative to matched controls, large-prize winners experience sustained increases in overall life satisfaction that persist for over a decade and show no evidence of dissipating with time.
Winning the Lottery of course would get anyone excited, but it looks like winning the Lottery makes you happier for many years to come. Sounds good to me.
Good Luck!
Best selling gaming author Frank Scoblete recently published an article titled The Mesmerism of Slots. It’s a pretty amazing article.
Here’s a quote from the article:
Many such players are actually not all that aware of the game in and of itself. Instead, they are playing a game at the front of their consciousness but deep down, somewhere in that area between awake and away, many slot players are doing something else, perhaps something serious, inside their minds.
I am speculating that slot machines are not just slot machines but they are something else, something that channels the unconscious or general awareness as opposed to acute awareness.
I submit to you that many players are solving problems, calming jangled nerves, planning their futures, or going into a kind of reverie.
The full article is highly recommended, here’s another quote:
The slot machines are noisy in the midst of the bustling casinos, yet, they are the Western, modern version of a rock garden and the players are the adventurers. The noise in the casino is merely the background wind.
I think you get the point, but here’s one more:
I sometimes wonder if slot players are in some kind of alpha brainwave state of relaxed awareness, the kind of consciousness that mediation brings.
Do you enter a relaxed state of consciousness when playing Michigan Lottery Online Instant Games?
I probably have yet to enter this zone while playing, but I think there is a lot to Frank Scoblete’s idea.
Good Luck!
After I put the kids to bed at the end of a long day, some days I’ll pour a glass of wine and enjoy a few games on the Michigan Lottery website.
A nice luxury to wind down at the end of the night.
I like to play a small round of games early in morning. And it may sound a little corny, but days where I walk away up – or after hitting a big win – I feel like a winner for the rest of the day.
I have a little more spring in my step, a happier mood, and that joy is sort of a momentum that leads into more successes throughout the day.
When I play I generally like to play big and fast. Go big or go home! Of course sticking to my budget, but I don’t look at the small prizes, I’m looking to bag a big one.
To me that’s the fun of playing the Michigan Lottery looking forward to winning the big prize.
