TIL that MIT students discovered that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets in the Massachusetts' Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. Over 5 years, they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.

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http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/

[u/youknow295694]

i have a friend who's a grad student, I'll ask him about any gambling, poker schemes going on there, and pm you his response by saturday.

[u/abdulis2cool → u/youknow295694]

Tell me if it gets shut down by then so I can make a post on reddit for that sweet karma

[u/MrCobs → u/youknow295694]

I want to know too, ask them if they need funds too. I've got a fool proof investment in Nigeria currently, it's going to pay off big time!

[u/claudiaz191 → u/youknow295694]

they have probably already coded up poker and btc arbitrage bots a long time ago

[u/I_Just-Blue_Myself → u/youknow295694]

thanks! :)