You must not have got to the end of the article? He doesn't need to have ever figured out the odds before when he was always just buying it for the entertainment value.
>I think of it as a discretionary entertainment spend. I get literally hours of enjoyment from fantasizing what I’d do if I won.
I'm not sure which part you're responding to there.
If it's that he states the reason as you quote? A point being that he was lured to buy tickets by some other more base desire, yes perhaps an irrational feeling that he would win, but that for a person in his position the admittance of that could be difficult, a personal cost of face.
Kinda like the old saying you buy Penthouse for the articles?
Pure speculation but then his side is self-promoted anecdote so I reckon it's all even. Just shooting my mouth off though probably.
>I think of it as a discretionary entertainment spend. I get literally hours of enjoyment from fantasizing what I’d do if I won.