Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Don't Guess at Lotto; Calculate to Win

Many people, if not most, would not think to include gambling a legitimate subject in financial planning. But with millions of people involved in all sorts of gaming, and billions of dollars, euros and pounds at stake, why not? Some people gamble for entertainment only; but what if you want to gamble to actually produce income?

Lotto is one of the most widespread forms of gambling. Although no one has yet perfected the technique or the formula to second guess the winning combination, many manage to make good earnings by guessing the probable winning combinations. Some of them rely on mathematics, while others rely on intuition. The best chance you have of discovering the winning combination depends on how you use the most vital ingredient required for every day living – commonsense.

Rather than focusing on expensive strategies that use random combinations, you ought to focus on possible winning combinations. This can be achieved by just categorizing winning combinations. If you conclude, based on historical data, that the future jackpot will have mostly numbers from 1 to 9, you should have combination of numbers that will include at least four numbers from 1 to 9. This way you will not have to buy inflated numbers of tickets to increase your odds of hitting the jackpot. By not buying too many tickets, not only do you save money, but you also have enough money to play another day (which might prove to be your lucky day).

Playing in syndicate is also a good idea but then you have to share your prize money with all the members of the syndicate; this means you still keep your job and report back to office on the following Monday. Categorizing numbers does not require a lot of intellectual power. Essentially what you do is target a group of numbers and try out different combinations. For example, if you have deduced that 1 to 9 may be the combination that you need to focus on, then your combination could be 1,4,6,9,26,30 or 1,2,5,7,36,39 or 1,3,8,11,29,45. Now in these numbers you will note that your focus is on numbers from 1 to 9 and the other numbers are ones which have an outside chance of being drawn. With this system, although you may not necessarily hit the jackpot, you will surely win decent sums of money to finance your future games, and if lady luck happens to smile on you; you can forget going to work on the following Monday.

The commonsense approach requires that you play alertly. If you are targeting the group from 1 to 9 it would be utterly foolish to draw four numbers in a series like 1,2,3,4 or 6,7,8,9 as the first four numbers; doing this makes your chances of hitting the jackpot or any small prize practically zero. It means, even before the winning numbers are drawn, you have already lost the game. This amounts to literally throwing away your hard-earned cash.

So ... how to win at lotto? Well, the best strategy is to zero in on the most probable winning combinations and then use common sense to arrive at the combination of six numbers. If you follow this practice every time you play, your chance of hitting the jackpot goes up dramatically. If you are going to gamble, do so intelligently, and play to win.

 

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