Lotteries were all about probability. To say they went bankrupt was an exaggeration; how could it be possible? According to scientific calculations, it was found that those who ran lotteries could never go bankrupt.
It was impossible for them to go bankrupt no matter how you calculated it.
What Mr. Gu meant was, "Look, he just bought all the lottery tickets from the stand, what's there to play?"
Clearly, he wasn't a lottery player. Lottery players thought about spending a few dollars per ticket, aiming for a huge win, a top prize of tens of thousands and above. That's what playing the lottery meant, earning dozens to hundreds of times more.
