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Not sure I get the distinction you're drawing. Supposing you say you know you won't win, but then you buy a lottery ticket anyway. Is that a failure of emotional acceptance of the number representing your odds, or a failure of anticipation control?
If you were akratically compelled to buy the ticket, failure of emotional acceptance. Failure of anticipation control at a deliberative level is the kind of thing that produces statements about invisible dragons. It's hard to think of a plausible way that could happen in this situation – maybe Escher-brained statements like "it won't win, but it still might"?