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If you forked over your hard-earned cash to play the lottery in Texas in the spring of 2023, you may be a little torqued at what you're about to read. The story out in the Wall Street Journal is about "the Joker"—aka John Wilson, formerly known as Zeljko Ranogajec of Tasmania; he's allegedly the bankroller for a group of number-crunching gambling pros who've figured out how to legally game various lottery systems. Ranogajec and his associates reportedly racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in lottery winnings simply by studying the data and capitalizing on gaming situations "ripe for flipping the house edge in their favor," per the Journal.