Gamblers across the globe have been obsessed with lottery winners for decades – all hoping to emulate their success and take home a big slice of the jackpot, if not the full amount. While it is no secret the odds are heavily stacked against every player, those who believe luck is on their side regularly fritter away cash each week. But behind every big lottery win is an even bigger mathematical equation and the saddening reality is that “not all lotteries are created equally”, LotteryCodex revealed. Probability calculations show that the chance of winning the Euro Millions is one in 139,838,159 – by comparison, getting struck by lightning has a one in two million chance, according to WebMath. Despite these highly unlikely odds, one man defied the system to win big a whopping 14 times. He made millions from cleverly devised mathematical calculations that for him appeared to guarantee lottery success.