Maths teacher who lost 80K a month on the lottery gave up - now she says she's "won the lottery!"

[webfact]

Maths teacher who lost 80K a month on the lottery gave up - now she says she's "won the lottery!"

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath went to investigate after an amusing online post from a female Thai teacher who said she felt she had won the lottery after giving up her addiction. 

 

Araya, 52, a mathematics teacher at Roi-Et Withayalai in Thailand's north east for 30 years said that three years after quitting playing the lottery she has built a house, has three rai of land and will soon be getting a Mercedes Benz. 

 

Her online post garnered much attention because she pictured herself surrounded by thousands of losing tickets from playing the lottery for three years. In that time Araya only won small prizes related to getting the last two or three digits right.

 

She said that she spent 30-40,000 baht a time, twice a month on the lottery.

 

She said that she got the money by doing after hours special tutoring. 

 

Now three years after quitting she recognises that she has finally "won the lottery". 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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[steven100]

she's seen the light .... 

[Justgrazing]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

said that three years after quitting playing the lottery she has built a house, has three rai of land and

a king size bed made of lotterly tickets .. 

 

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

soon be getting a Mercedes Benz.

Oh Lawd wontcha' buy me a Myrrcedes Benzz' ma' friends all have Porsche's I must make amends .. 

[sammieuk1]

If only she could find a scratch card hobby here????

[2 is 1]

Nobody gamble here , mai pen rai! And every thai woman hate playing cards!

When she stop doing that , maybe favorite monk was eating som tam and not get next day number.

[steven100]

52 minutes ago, webfact said:

Now three years after quitting she recognises that she has finally "won the lottery".

did she find a farang

[worgeordie]

57 minutes ago, webfact said:

She said that she got the money by doing after hours special tutoring. 

Mmmmh,80,000 +- a month,sure the tax man knows nothing about it.

and been a  mathematics teacher....she should have know the odds.

regards Worgeordie

[CharlieH]

A Math teacher who didnt understand the numbers !....555555

 

If she had won 3 million she would have only got around her 3 yr spend returned.

 

Never understood where all this Lottery money goes ? Same ticket price as UK, same size population (nearly) and yet the Top prize here is 6 mil and the Uk around 200 mil !! and we never hear of "good causes" being funded either. so where is it all going ???? ................or do we know the answer to that already....sshhhhh

 

 

[Mavideol]

3 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

so where is it all going ????

that's not something you should ask here.... just saying 555

[geronimo]

31 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

A Math teacher who didnt understand the numbers !....555555

 

If she had won 3 million she would have only got around her 3 yr spend returned.

 

Never understood where all this Lottery money goes ? Same ticket price as UK, same size population (nearly) and yet the Top prize here is 6 mil and the Uk around 200 mil !! and we never hear of "good causes" being funded either. so where is it all going ???? ................or do we know the answer to that already....sshhhhh

 

 

The lottery website has all the details of what they do with the money.

[Bender Rodriguez]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

She said that she spent 30-40,000 baht a time, twice a month on the lottery.

on a teacher salary ?

[klauskunkel]

I guess she didn't know how to calculate the odds...

[Colabamumbai]

She should have done the math. 

[lensta]

1 hour ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

on a teacher salary ?

My thoughts exactly

[PDPA2024]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

She said that she got the money by doing after hours special tutoring. 

 

2 hours ago, lensta said:

My thoughts exactly

Math teacher by day, "special tutor" by night ????

[lesmac]

The worst and most expensive lottery in the world, with the lowest payout

[natway09]

Extra tutoring ?     Mmmmmm

[khunPer]

It apparently took the math teacher many years to learn about the magic math in money...

[khunPer]

46 minutes ago, lesmac said:

The worst and most expensive lottery in the world, with the lowest payout

So I also heard for many years and was happy that I only play my home country's Lotto, until I finally checked facts, and realized that the Thai lottery has better odds...????

 

Luckily I've never been addicted – spend equivalent to $2 a week to win $1,000,000 or (much) more, depending of jackpot – so now I have about $100 a year to play the stock market instead...????

[Airalee]

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

Araya, 52, a mathematics teacher at Roi-Et Withayalai in Thailand's north east for 30 years said that three years after quitting playing the lottery she has built a house, has three rai of land and will soon be getting a Mercedes Benz.

Explains a lot... 

[brianthainess]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

will soon be getting a Mercedes Benz. 

Will she pay cash for that ?, i'd be interested to know how much she owes in loans, land, house, car. Que the teachers unable to pay back their loans. I sure wouldn't want her to teach kids of mine.