How
The Internet Can Enhance Your Lottery Playing
by Andy Gray
The
internet is a wonderful thing. You can now do
all sorts of things from the comfort of your own
home when you used to have to go to a shop or
put something in the post.
I now rent my DVDs online
and they arrive through the post and I get my
weekly groceries delivered to my door having ordered
them from my list of favorites online.
The internet makes things
convenient. So when I forgot to buy my lottery
ticket again and missed out on a small prize,
I turned to the internet for help. I was surprised
at what I found!
There was as I expected the
ability to purchase lottery tickets online from
the UK’s National Lottery website. Great!
No longer did I have to fiddle around with cash
or get soaked in the rain going to the shop.
In fact they take care of
it all – take the money from your bank account
for the subscriptions automatically so that you
never miss a draw, check your numbers for you
without fail and pay you any winnings!
Paying you your winnings probably
doesn’t sound like a big deal – but
since the UK National Lottery began in 1994, unclaimed
prizes have accumulated to more than £650
million [$1.17 billion]!
Checking that your numbers
have won is probably the most useful service of
all – because if you don’t claim it
you don’t get it!
A great service - convenient,
simple and fun.
Then a few months ago I found
the next step on – an online lottery syndicate
system!
Sure - the official national
lottery website offers a syndicate management
tool - but not like this one.
I looked at it rather sceptically
as anyone with an economics degree might! But
I went through the numbers to check anyway. I
was impressed.
They operate syndicates with
49 members in each. Then they do something clever
– they fix one of the six numbers so that
each of the 49 numbers is covered and then with
5 other randomly generated numbers they create
44 separate lines.
This is clever – it
means that there are 44 entries and effectively
the syndicate only has to match 5 of the 6 lottery
draw numbers to win the jackpot - because the
sixth ball will always match.
But it’s cleverer than
that because the syndicate also wins more than
the jackpot – another of the 44 lines will
win 5 plus the bonus ball and then of course the
other 42 lines also win by matching 5 numbers!
Add all those multiple wins together and divide
by the number in the syndicate and you win more
than you would have done if you played solo!
In fact your odds of winning
increases by 702% in the UK National Lottery Lotto
draw!
And they have done the same
trick with the EuroMillions draw. If you are not
familiar with this it is as big as many of the
multi-state lotteries in the USA. Why? Because
9 countries in Europe are all playing it! And
more want to join in!
It is the biggest tax-free
lump-sum national lottery in the world!
If you were watching the news earlier in 2006
you will have seen that it rose to an incredible
£125m rollover (yes – that’s
in GBP not dollars or euros!)
Being a part on this lottery
syndicate increases your chances of winning by
a staggering 3600%! Increasing the odds of winning
any prize to 1 in 10 and it means you can win
a prize by matching just one ball!
So next time you are waiting
in line to buy your lottery ticket, running the
risk of losing it, or forgetting to check whether
you’ve won, think about how the internet
can make it simpler for you.
If you join the right syndicate,
it could boost your chances of winning as well!
Copyright 2006 Andy Gray
Author Info:
Andy Gray
is a businessman who used to play the UK Lottery
very inefficiently! Find out more about how you
can join a syndicate and boost your chances of
winning at http://www.BoostYourChances.co.uk
You can even play a new Grab A Grand game for
free at http://www.GrabAGrand.BoostYourChances.co.uk
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