Another article caught my attention and wanted to share it with you to know your thoughts about the subject matter.
A person won $2m after having a positive gut feeling after buying a scratch Chrome Scratch ticket. More story on the link given below:
Seattle Man Has “Gut Feeling” After Buying Scratch Ticket, Wins $2M
Does a human have the instinct to feel or know the outcome of gambling? In this article it was said that the winner have the positive guts after buying the ticket and eventually won $2m or is it just a coincident?
I looked for some discussion on the internet and I agree with one of the replies on qoura[1] that the winner on Sportsbet does not rely on luck but rather on the mathematical calculation of the information presented by the data of the competing team but in this case, it is different since the game is based on chance and it would be hard to calculate the possible result since the data of distribution of the said ticket is unknown.
So in case where you are buying a lottery or scratch ticket, would you abide by your gut's feeling whether to purchase to bet on the combination of a number? Do you believe that instinct can help a person win in a chance based gambling games?
For me, the person involved in the story just got a lucky coincidence that he has chosen the winning scratch ticket and has nothing to do with his gut's feeling. Everyone has a positive gut feeling whenever they are engaging in chance-based gambling games and a majority of them fail miserably losing all their bankroll and even beyond that.
Everyone can come up with a story after the fact, but you can bet that many gamblers get "gut feelings" that they are making a good bet all the time yet end up losing. It's just a case of hindsight and not really true. He happened to win and that's great for him, but trying to involve any sort of premonition is the same as praying to god that you will win - absolutely meaningless. Some people think they have lucky numbers, maybe playing them day after day for decades, then one day 30 years after they started the combination comes out in the lottery and they think it's some magical thing connected with their "special numbers" while forgetting the thousands of other times they lost the game.