Jerry and Marge Selbee, the retired couple who found a way to win millions in the US lottery.
You don’t just need an amulet or to pray become a millionaire with gambling. Nor be a math genius. And this has been proved by the story of a retired couple who earned $ 26 million and which recently became a Hollywood movie: Jerry and Marge grow up.
Jerry and Marge Selbeehigh school boyfriends decided to sell their grocery store in Evart, Michigan (USA) to retire at the age of 60.
However, out of nostalgia, the man of the time visits his old shop and a brochure of the Winfall, a new lottery game.
Jerry and Marge Selbee made $ 26 million in Michigan and Massachusetts, United States.
It didn’t take long for Jerry to analyze the proposal and find that he could earning in a simple way. How? Moving on to math, where he excelled in college.
According to how he explained a few years ago and reflected Gizmodohe found that profits were being reduced each time the jackpot was limited to $ 5 million and no one had the winning ticket.
That small but fact was the key. This implied that if no one had the card with the six winning numbers, those who had five, four and three numbers could charge. That is, since there was no single winner, it was distributed in the smaller prizes.
arithmetic exercise
The retiree from Michigan said he appeals to basic arithmetic. As soon as he discovered that the roof had been hit without a winner and that smaller prizes were up for grabs, quickly went to buy $ 3,600 worth of Winfall tickets.
Winfall, the lottery that left a “hole” discovered by The Selbee.
The decision helped him win the sum of $ 6,300, a minimal profit but still a profit. However, the second chance played stronger: $ 8,000 and almost double that.
This “crack or black hole” they found in the system led the Selbees to reinvest almost all the money they received in the lottery. And after a while in Winfall hundreds of thousands of dollars were at stake.
They also said in an interview that up to created a company called GS Investment Strategiesand they invited their friends and family to invest for $ 500 each.
Looking back to 2005 and due to the lack of sales, the state has put an end to the gamethe generator of juicy profits for the couple and their crew members.
Jerry and Marge Selbee used a system of mathematical probability.
similar opportunity
Always alert, shortly after the Selbees have heard of a game that had similar characteristics in Massachusetts called “Cash WinFall”.
After rigorous analysis, Jerry found that in this case, when there was no single winner for the 2 million first prize, the sum was spread over the smaller prizes and inflated.
In this way, it turns out, if a minor prize that matched 4 or 5 numbers was 2 or 4 thousand dollars, in case of sharing it would amount to 20 or 40 thousand dollarsexpand the portal.
Therefore, the couple spent years traveling no less than 14 hours in Massachusetts whenever the limit was reached without a winner, and followed the success strategy to the letter. It was a foolproof investment.
Jerry and Marge Selbee today.
In 2011, the newspaper bostonglobe discovered the machinery which had been developed by two groups in various locations in Massachusetts. And one of the triggers, or rather the proof, was that large sums of cards were being sold simultaneously for years.
Once the news broke, the state initiated an investigation, but as predicted by then it would not have been successful. at no time did the strategy violate the law.
There was no impediment to buying all the tickets a person wanted, which the Selbees have been doing for a long time.
The couple poses with Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening, who play them in the film.
The large amounts of lottery tickets that the Selbees played according to their system.
It was also known, widespread Gizmodo, the lottery was aware of the operation. But strictly speaking, the increased ticket sales also meant profits for them. For this reason they preferred to remain silent.
The winning strategy that made the Selbees rich ended up marking a turning point, ever since that witness case they have implemented a limit on lottery tickets to be purchased.
The Selbees didn’t care: they had already raised $ 26 million in 9 years.
History of Hollywood cinema
The remarkable story that had long been sought after by Hollywood was finally released last month under the title Jerry and Marge grow up.
Bryan Cranston (breaking Bad) Y Annette Benning (four-time Oscar nominee) stars in the Paramount film directed by David Frankel, best known for films such as the The devil wears Prada (“The devil wears Prada”).
A scene from the movie Jerry & Marge Go Large.
As is usually the case in these cases, some creative licenses are taken to make the story more attractive and visual, but it simply reflects the life of the Selbees and how they haven’t lost their minds for winning the lottery so many times, spreads the BBC.
Selbee’s story is the exact opposite of Jordan Belfort, the New York financial and market manipulation expert portrayed in “The Wolf of Wall Street“Although, of course, both equally attractive.
Source: Clarin
