There’s a studio audience for the California drawing. Easy enough to be there. Then have my wife cash in the ticket a few weeks later.
As for Vegas, Tahoe, Reno, Foxwoods and all the rest: If you keep moving, don’t skin any one casino for more than a few grand at a time, and stay low-key, you’re good. One pass down the Strip would net you $125,000 at $5K per, all of it tax-free. Go on to the next city, rinse, lather repeat. “Work” 3 weeks a year and relax the rest.
Poker sounds good to me, but why would you have to be careful about it? Why not just win every hand? What are they going to do, accuse you of of being a mind reader?
TK wouldn’t work for me; I’d start doing things like picking pencils that were just out of reach, or writing emails without using my fingers. Some one would notice.
Telepathy, though; I’d like that. I’d like to know what people are really thinking. I can’t think of a job that wouldn’t be an asset in. Can I toss in a bit of Sending, too? So that when I say something odd, I can send, 'That was a joke"?
I do see that telepathy would destroy any marriage, though.
On the plus side, those days of having to get up and walk across the room to fetch the TV remote would be over.
Outside of the thread, I’d go for TK. I can not imagine a handier gift.
Get angry and shoot you. Admittedly, you SHOULD be able to tell when the mood is changing, but why risk it?