Jack,there are 2 main types of gambling CASINO and LOTTERY
now for the Casino card games you have your "Professional
Gamblers" which everyone on this forum should know about that play Poker,BlackJack etc... and do it for a living.Now on the otherside the Lottery Games you have 2 types of players Amateur Players:people who buy quick-picks,use lucky numbers or randomly mark numbers on the playslip basically they have no strategy in picking the numbers therefore their wins will be sporadic in fact "EXTREMELY"
sporadic because you would not be able to win consistantly
enough to make a living,you could hit a pick-3,4,5 or 6 game
and may never hit again or hit 6mnths to a year later and that's just in the pick-3/4 games the pick-5/6 if you were to hit a Jackpot the only hits you would probably get again would be 3 or 4 numbers.Professional Players:are people that use systems,software or their own number selection techniques/methods they developed by analysing the numbers to play and can get straight or boxed hits in the pick-3/4, if there good on a fairly regular basis like maybe once a week or 1-2 times a month,now if there REALLY good they can hit 2-3 times a week or 3-4 times a month but this is just an estimate some may hit more or less than this but in a good number of cases I'm aware of there are players who hit enough in the pick-3/4 games that they make a living off of it,so any player that wins consistantly enough that it exceeds his working income by using methods that are not used by the Amateurs would be considered a Professional player.The Professionals are striving for consistancy while the Amateurs just want to get lucky with a hit!!!