My guess is that as the pot increases people of a higher income get interested. I can see an argument that if the pot increases from $1M to $10M in likelihood of someone that makes $100k&#x2F;y buys a ticket will increase by more than 10 times while someone that makes $10k&#x2F;y wont. Part of it is the hype and part the impact to your life being large enough to override reason.<p>It would be interesting to see if there are any studies that show that trend and where it cuts off.