Your
Lottery Odds and The Fastest, No Cost Way To Radically
Improve Them
by Martin Waterhouse
If I had a lottery ticket
for every time I've heard "well I play the
Mega Millions lottery because the jackpot is so
much bigger"...
OK, in my head I'm thinking
"but don't you know you have 10 times less
chance of winning?"... I do try to be polite
about it.
Fact is, lottery organisers
love creating games with very long odds. Why?
Because it means more rollover jackpots. Which
means jackpots which grab newspaper headlines.
Which generates more interest and higher ticket
sales.
But what's more important
-- the media profile of your chosen game? Or your
odds of winning the lottery?
Here's a quick reminder of
what lottery odds look like.
A standard 6 balls from 49
lottery gives you about a 1 in 13 million chance
of winning for each ticket. Long odds yes, but
hey this is a lottery! But just hang on a second...
A typical Power Ball type
draw is normally 5 balls plus a bonus ball. That
may sound easier to win, but it's actually so
much harder it hurts! Take the U.S. Power Ball,
that's 5 balls from 53 followed by 1 ball from
42 -- fact is your odds are now around 1 in 120
million for the jackpot. That means you have to
buy TEN times as many tickets just to have the
same chance of winning!
How about EuroMillions? It
may at first sound harder to win, but it's actually
easier! The Euro game is 5 from 50 plus 2 from
9. But that's actually a 1 in 76 million chance,
almost twice as easy to win as the U.S. Power
Ball.
The U.S. MegaMillions is far
worse. 5 from 56, plus 1 from 46 -- that gives
you astounding odds of 1 in 175 million!
There's also a smaller reason
to be concerned at big rollovers. If a lot more
people play there's a greater chance of multiple
winners, which means sharing that enormous jackpot
that was harder to win in the first place!
So are power ball type draws
just designed to confuse players about lottery
odds? Maybe -- but I'll leave that one for the
conspiracy theorists. Let's just concentrate on
improving your chances of winning the jackpot
shall we!
Here's the short, sharp advice
for playing more wisely...
Play the game which gives
you the best chance of winning a life changing
sum of money. Yes, 100 million does look great
fun, but would it make your life any different
to winning 10 million? Of course not. So why settle
for 10 times less chance of actually winning!
So if you play a power ball
type draw, the fastest, cheapest, most effective
way you can boost your lottery chances right now...
is to change the game you are playing.
Are you playing the right
lottery?
Martin Waterhouse
is a lottery and statistics fan - who is not popular
with the vendors of expensive lottery systems
based on dodgy maths and mumbo-jumbo! Publisher
of the internets foremost lottery syndicate review
and lottery tips site, Lottery-Syndicate-World...
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