June 6th, 2009
QUICK RIDDLE: What has six balls and screws you
three-times-a-week? ANSWER: Lotto.
If you go out and buy yourself a lottery ticket today, the odds are literally millions-to-one against you hitting the jackpot. However, if you placed a bet that the company running your state lottery is shadowy, your odds would be a lot better. California, New York, and New Jersey, among other states, had the fog of scandal hanging over their lottery operations, and there was even a Federal Grand Jury in Texas probing the activities of one lottery company.
Lottery operators are a cunning lot. Not content with profits from the New York daily numbers drawings and the dozen or more scratch-off "games" for sale everywhere, the lottery crowd in Albany schemed up a neat way to circumvent New York's long-standing legal prohibition against casino gambling games. Keno, a casino mainstay in both New Jersey and Nevada casinos, was finessed into New York State under the alias of Quick-Draw.
Quick-Draw is a video numbers game that is flashed on television screens in many New York bars and delis. A new game runs every five minutes.
Keno and Quick-Draw are identical in concept, except that Quick-Draw has fewer numbers and smaller payoffs and, as bad a some airports, which allows lobby cigar stand operators to make a living. On my way up to see a publisher, I impulsively stopped at a lobby stand and bought a $1 lottery ticket. I scratched it off in the elevator and was delighted to find I had a $25 winner. On my way out I happily cashed my winning ticket. What the proprietor said as he counted out the $25 cured me forever from buying anymore scratch-off lottery tickets.
"Jeez, yer one lucky guy. In a year an' a haff I mustda sold a cou-pla hunnerd thou' tickets, and yer da' foist $25 winner I ever seen."
There are flukes, of course, as lightning must strike somewhere. Once, Lyle Stuart took some employees and kin out for lunch. Impulsively, he stopped off and bought a $1 lottery for each of his guests, putting a ticket at each place setting. His daughter Sandy learned two nights later that she had a $5,000 winner.
To sum it all up, my advice to you is to avoid the state lotteries in all their razzle-dazzle shapes and forms. They're all rip-offs. You can't win, you won't win,- don't waste your money. If you think playing your "lucky numbers" will be the key to a life of wealth and ease, think again. Most of the pitifully few winners of New York State Weekly Lotto jackpots have won by the dumb-luck "Quick-Pick" ticket, where the Lotto computer selects your numbers.
The New York Daily News reported that there were five winners of the $40 million jackpot of February 26, 1998. The headline of this story: "A Quick-Pick Trip to Wealth."
All five of the winners did it with Quick-Pick tickets!
Outside of the Quick-Pick method, the only way I can suggest for you to pick a winner is to buy a monkey. A man in California had his pet monkey pick out numbered ping-pong balls from a cardboard box. You guessed it, pal. The monkey unerringly picked out the wining lottery numbers, guaranteeing his owner a life of ease and for himself a lifetime supply of bananas.
If you don't happen to own a pet monkey, then the next wisest thing is just not to buy any rip-off state lottery tickets.
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June 5th, 2009
With no response and no action by any of the agencies that are allegedly there to protect my interests, I could only bitterly write it off as a Lost Cause, I thought. I had tried the legal route to obtain justice for myself and the others that were taken in, but being a novice at suing, I learned that I came to my attorney too late in the game. Famed Philadelphia lawyer (and dear friend) Albert B. Gerber regretfully told me that I should have seen him before I (finally) got my refund. Then he could have started the wheels in motion for a Class Action suit against the casino.
Frankly I'm at a loss why blatant violations by the casinos are often ignored by regulatory agencies that profess to exist to protect the public. It appears that the casinos and the owners are Sacred Cows that are above the law.
One day I picked up a copy of a New York tabloid, and suddenly there it was! Now all the pieces fit together. The Casino Control Commission released the figures for that quarter of the year, and they were spectacular. The casinos were raking in megabuck operating profits. They all made big gains.
All but one. The scam casino was at the bottom of the list— with an utterly disastrous loss for the period!
Perhaps I'm reading more into it than is there, but I would think that a casino, sinking steadily for the quarter, as the bait-and-switch casino was, would be tempted to resort to desperate measures to stem the decline. I can easily imagine how much more of a fiasco the quarter would have been for it had they not fattened their bottom line by taking money from me, and thousands more like me, with their too-good-to-be-true promotion that was too good to be true.
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