Lotto: Play for Fun or Play to Win?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30th, 2009 by – Be the first to commentMany people, if not most, would not consider gambling a worthwhile subject in financial planning. But with millions of people involved in gaming of all sorts, and billions of pounds, dollars, and euros at stake, why not? Many people gamble strictly for amusement; but what if you want to gamble to actually produce income?
Lotto is one of the most popular forms of gambling. Although no one has yet perfected the technique or the formula to second guess the winning combination, many have managed to make positive earnings by guessing the probable winning combinations. Some rely on intuition, some on mathematics. The best prospect you have of cracking 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 need to focus on possible winning combinations. This can be accomplished by just categorizing winning combinations. If you conclude, based on historical data, that the future jackpot will have more numbers from 1 to 9, then 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 you not only save money but also have enough to play another day which might prove to be your lucky day.
Playing in a syndicate can also be a good idea, but remember — you have to share your prize money with all the members of the syndicate and this means you still have to keep your job and report back to office on the following Monday. Categorizing numbers does not require a lot of brains. What you essentially do is target a group of numbers and then try out different combinations. If, for example, you conclude 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 with these numbers, 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 you may not necessarily hit the jackpot but you will surely win decent sums of money to finance your future games, and if and when Lady Luck happens to smile on you, you can forget going to work on the following Monday.
The commonsense approach requires that you play wisely. 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; by doing this your chance of hitting the jackpot or any small prize is practically zero. It means, even before the winning numbers are drawn, you have lost the game. This is akin to literally throwing away your hard-earned funds.
So, how to win at lotto? Well, the best strategy is to zero in on the 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, our chances of hitting the jackpot go up dramatically. If you are going to gamble, do so intelligently, and play to win.
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