Sup fellow degens, 

You know, I usually preach that the house always wins. 

I tell you that the house is a cruel mistress that will eventually take your car keys and leave you crying in a half-empty street with double-parked cars. 

Sometimes, that is not true. 

I don't know if the simulation broke down this time, but a couple from a small town in Wales have proven that you can beat the house. 

Not once, but twice. 

They looked the god of probability in the eyes, slapped them in the face, and walked away with their wallet. 

Meet Richard Davies (49) and Faye Stevenson-Davies (43). 

To the naked eye, they look like NPCs just going about their days. He drives a courier van. She works in mental health. 

To you, these are normies. 

But these two are walking, breathing statistical anomalies. 

In 2018, they hit. They won £1,000,000 on the Euromillions Millionaire Maker. 

A lot of money for a normie. The responsible move would have been to buy a boring house, buy some index funds, and never touch a lottery ticket ever again. 

But this couple said no. Richard and Faye went degen and kept playing. They said, “double or nothing," and just kept buying lottery tickets. 

If it worked once, why the f*ck wouldn't it work again? 

For seven years, while financial advisors screamed into their pillows, they just kept going. 

Last week, while the rest of us were still mulling over our crypto losses, they won again. 

Not £100 or £10,000. 

Another £1,000,000! 

The unhinged part of this story is that Richard didn't even pay for the winning ticket. 

He just did a freeroll on a lottery ticket. 

This is how it works: 

Step 1: Richard plays a lottery draw. Matches two numbers. Wins a free Lucky Dip ticket.

Step 2: That free ticket matches two numbers. Wins another free Lucky Dip.

Step 3: That free ticket matches two numbers. Wins ANOTHER free Lucky Dip.

Step 4: That free ticket matches two numbers. Wins a FOURTH free Lucky Dip.

Step 5: That fourth free Lucky Dip hits the £1 million jackpot.

He turned a £2 ticket into a four-ticket freeroll chain that ended in a million pounds.

That's not gambling. That's exploiting a server-side bug in the universe's RNG system.

Let me put these numbers into perspective for you 

Allwyn (the lottery operators) calculated the odds of winning the EuroMillions Millionaire Maker twice at 1 in 24 trillion.

That's less than the chance a camel passes through a needle's eye. 

Which also means that you have a better chance of: 

To actually understand what this means, you have to know that if every person on earth (8 billion people) played the lottery, none of them would win it twice. 

But Richard and Faye did. 

Twice. 

This couple seems to know something the rest of us don't. After winning, they did a press interview where the story gets even more NPC. 

Reporter: "So what are you going to do with the money?"

Richard: "Well, I'll keep working. I deliver parcels 7 days a week, and I love it. People depend on me for their Christmas gifts."

Reporter: "You just beat 24 trillion-to-1 odds. Twice. You could retire."

Richard: "Nah, I like driving the van."

Faye: "We'll probably go on a nice holiday. Maybe upgrade the house a bit.”

Richard, my guy, you have beaten 24 trillion to 1 odds.

You're driving a courier van delivering people's Christmas presents. 

You're the Christmas present, Richard. 

Park the van. Buy a yacht, and hire someone to deliver your packages. 

Take the W and retire. 

Unless, of course, you're going for a third win. 

And at this point, I wouldn't even bet against you. 

Richard and Faye are living proofs that the most dangerous words in gambling are: 

“That would never happen." 

The couple understood that no cosmic accountant is tracking your wins and losses. The odds are exactly the same every time you draw. 

You don't use up your luck. 

The house doesn't always win. 

Sometimes, the house gets absolutely rinsed by a courier prince who delivers packages and just refuses to retire. 

So next time someone tells you to "quit while you're ahead,” remember Richard. 

There's only one way to lose: stop playing. 

Now, excuse me. I need to get some lottery tickets and start a freeroll chain.

TL;DR: A couple from Wales won the lottery twice. The odds of them winning is less than 1 in 24 trillion. But they bossed it while keeping their day jobs. 

Stay degen,

Dima