Some people just seem to have “It” while others like myself are doomed to never experience the feeling of winning big $$$ !       Last night one person in South Dakota won the Powerball worth $232 million.While the other day a New Jersey Grand Mother stepped up to the craps table at a local casino and proceeded to roll and win for the next 4 and a half hours winning a huge pot of cash laughing and giggling all the way to the bank.      For me the whole idea of winning at any of these games of chance or legal betting is just a pipe dream. I have never as much as won $5 on a scratch off game. I’ve tried them all, been to Vegas, even tried a little Bingo once, but after the old lady next to me kept winning card after card, I just walked out with my head shaking. I remember being on a gambling boat in Louisiana drop quarter after quarter into a slot machine and at one time actually filling up my collectable cup and feeling like I was on the roll of rolls. I look down the row and see this guy, who looked like hobo all dirty and smelly and I noticed how each time he slotted a quarter, boom money would just pour out of the machine. He must have had 6-7 collectable cups full of quarters. So I proceed to attack the machines with all my one cup of winnings and within minutes, I didn’t have enough left to by a cup a coffee.      Then there was my short stint as a high roller at the dog track. I was living in Houston, and they opened up one of the largest dog tracks in the country. Well you got to at least go out and give it a try I thought to myself. I remember my first wife’s grandfather from Wisconsin was supposed to be really big into the dogs so we talked to him about how to get out there and win. What special things we should look for when researching dogs before making our bets. He said “if the dog takes a dump on the way to the starting gate, run to the window and drop a bet on it to win!” I thought, “hey now, there’s a true strategy”.  I’ve got the edge now I’m going give it a shot. I went out there to the track and bet on every dog the went to the bathroom, and you know what? I was winning I mean I was wasn’t  Mr. Big but I think I won something like $200 half way through the night.I’m even sharing my “secret” now with other people who think I know what I’m doing. But just as I began to think of how I may have found a new way to make a living, I started to get cocky; making that trifecta bet’s or big money on one dog to win etc, and as the dream of living the high life faded along with my winnings I ended up shelling out another $75 for drinks and food and left the place in the hole that much.        So you see, I think some people just have that great thing called dumb luck and others like myself, well the best thing we can do every time we start thinking about winning the big lotto,  just walk up to some stranger and hand them the $5 bucks you were about to spend on a some quick picks. Of course then you’ll see that person in the paper a few days later standing there holding one of those giant checks worth millions and the headline of the story says…  stranger gives man $5 who then uses it to buy lotto ticket and wins millions!