For many thousands of years, dolls have been made to look like small people, and children have been attracted to them. When children play with dolls, the dolls become very real to them. Sometimes they represent the child, and sometimes they become storybook characters. Dolls as playthings give children an opportunity to be in charge, to make decisions, to give and receive love, and to practice what they have learned from observing adults. But dolls have not always been playthings.

At 91, my father Erwin A. Thompson still knows how to play and shares this gift with the children who surround him. An 8-year-old friend who lives down the hill loves to play with my father. Pop still has that spark, that joy in living. He invents new games and revives old ones. Pop has a youthful heart inside an aging body. You can clearly see the boy inside the man.

You see, you may love to play the scratchers lottery for fun but it is no longer fun when you keep playing and you keep losing. Chances are, you are NOT playing with an effective strategy.

Maybe you’re thinking how could there be a strategy. You thought you just buy a scratcher ticket and hope you win. Well guess what, that’s STILL a strategy but it’s a strategy to LOSE! 99% of people who play the scratcher lottery game play with this DESTRUCTIVE strategy!

First of all, check out this all TOO COMMON example that happens to 90% of people who are trying to win money in the scratchers lottery game.

You go into the convenience store to play the scratcher lottery ticket games. So you go, you buy scratchers, you scratch them, and find out they are losers!

So you are convinced that the next scratch off ticket you buy will be a big winner. So you repeat exactly what you did. You buy the scratchers, scratch them, and find out they are STILL losers!

An advanced skill in No-Limit Texas Holdem is the advertising play. An advertising play is one in which you give information to your opponents, but the information you give is misleading, so that you can use it against your opponents later. The most common type of advertising is to turn over a big bluff right before you decide to switch gears and play tight for a while. You can also advertise if you’ve had a run of strong hands by showing that you were betting from strength in order to set up bluffs down the road.

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It’s that 10% of the people who win play based on LOGIC while the 90% of the people who lose play the scratcher lottery games based on EMOTION.

Here’s how most people mess up. They get emotional all the time. They get emotional when they see their favorite color on a particular color so they buy the scratcher and what happens? They lose!

They get emotional because a scratcher game is the “newest game” for this month and they buy it and what happens? They lose!