Why you should always check your lottery tickets to avoid my expensive mistake

I've only had one lottery disaster. It was at a time when I visited another lotto shop in our city. 

I knew something was wrong when the total came up... it was $50 more than I normally paid.

So the checking began.

Two assistants and I spread the tickets out on a counter and we painstakingly went through each one and the matching receipt. 

To my amazement, each one checked out correct. So I paid up, and gave the two girls my heartfelt apologies for the 20 minutes they had spent looking with me.

It wasn't until much later that I found the machine had misinterpreted my lines because the cards were old. It gave me extra duplicate lines and messed with my winning percentages.

As I've mentioned many times before, when you fill out your tickets with my Silver Lotto System, you do it only once.

And you keep using those tickets until you get sick of winning.

But make sure your tickets are correct. And after the game, always get your tickets checked by machine. And then check again.

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