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Old 11-20-2004, 10:29 PM
TPL TPL is offline
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Default Taking the concept of pot odds to the absurd extreme...

The Florida Lottery jackpot is up to $50M tonight. I was at the store and decided to buy a ticket. I checked the odds of winning: 1 in 23,000,000.

So I bought 2 tickets and walked out saying, "I think I got the best of that bet."

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