This 20-year veteran sports betting guy gives advice that could profoundly change your lottery life

This 20-year veteran sports betting guy gives advice that could profoundly change your lottery life

Sports betting is different to lottery playing in many ways. SuperBowl and horse betting is quite different to the Mega Millions. But there is advice we can get from the betting professionals and apply it to our own playing.

After all, some of these players put up to $2 million dollars a DAY on the line, so it would be silly to ignore their wisdom.

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Lottery Winner's Skill Test: How to pop champagne and spray it over everyone for the cameras

Spraying Champagne is an essential skill to master just in case you win a Grand Prix or, more likely, win The National Lottery. Learn how to pop and spray a bottle of fizz from one of the 4,000 National Lottery winners.

It should be a compulsory training course for budding lottery winners, because without the proper spray of champagne at the photoshoot you could be wasting everyone's time. There are a lot of important officials waiting for you to do it correctly so they can get back to their cubicles and prepare the lottery for the next winners. This video explains it all in layman's terms, and you'll be in demand as a trainer yourself if you're any good.

You won $500 million on the Powerball lottery. So how much is REALLY yours to keep?

It's still a pretty penny, but not as much as you might think.

So your multi-million dollar win is sitting in the bank and you're pretty happy about everything right now. But then your finance manager taps you on the shoulder. "I think there's something you should know..." she says. Forbes.com looks into a winner's money and comes out with some surprising options for you.

How to manage your lottery millions - what this lawyer says you HAVE to do immediately you win

CBS News legal analyst Jack Ford offers some free advice to the winner or winners of the $500 million Powerball jackpot.

It’s easy to get excited about your win and forget the important parts that could affect your whole life. Good advice that’s still current in this 2012 interview by CBS News with lawyer Jack Ford.