Comparing Lottery Strategies

Which lotto strategy is best? Great question. When it comes to increasing your chances of winning the lotto, there are two things you can do.

1. Buy more tickets.
2. Increase your chances of winning.

For example, buying 25 lotto tickets can increase your chances of winning from 1:3,000,000 to 1:125,000. Or, you could buy some lotto software, use your brain and increase your chances of winning the lotto while making your dollar go farther.

Obviously, method #2 is preferable because it allows you to stretch your lotto budget while maintaining similar coverage of all possible wagers. In other words, if you can increase your chances of winning to 1:100,000 using lotto number analysis techniques, then you only have buy 1 wager to have the same chances. So, if you're a serious lotto player, purchasing some good lotto software is a no-brainer. It pays for itself in a couple of weeks.

An intelligent lotto player tries to cover as many of the possible winning wagers as possible. I call this your Lotto Footprint or LFP. Environmentalists use a similar term, Carbon Footprint, to describe the effect each of us has on global warming. However, the environmentalist wants a small Carbon Footprint and serious lotto player wants a large Lotto Footprint. The larger the LFP the better your chances of winning are.

Here's a simple formula for LFP that you can use to compare different lotto strategies. It incorporates both approaches mentioned above. Here's the formula.

LFP = tickets purchased /# of possible wagers in Millions

Controlling your budget is as easy as keeping the numerator small. So, we'll concentrate on reducing the size of the denominator; the number of possible wagers. In this article we'll use the Massachusetts Cash WinFall, 6/46 Lotto.

Everybody playing the MA646 lotto starts out with 9,366,819 possible wagers from which to choose. For the purposes of using the LFP, we will use 9.366819 in the formula. If the player buys 1 wager:

LFP = 1/9.366819 = 0.107

The easy way to increase your coverage of the MA646 lotto, to increase your LFP, would be buy more wagers. For example, buying 25 wagers results in an LFP of 2.67; indicating that your coverage has improved.

But, how does the serious lotto player reduce the number of possible wagers? Simple. It's called a reduced Play List. Unlike everyone else in Massachusetts who is playing a 6 out of 46 game, our guy is playing a different game. Lets suppose that by using his lotto software to analyze the lotto, he is convinced that the number 38 will not hit in the next drawing. He will not play any wager that has the number 38 in it.

I know, you're thinking, 'No big deal.' and are about to stop reading. BUT, WAIT! It is a big deal. This simple act of removing 1 number from play has removed 1,221,759 wagers from play! That's over a MILLION wagers. You see, while everyone else in Massachusetts is playing a 6/46 lotto, our guy is playing a 6/45 game. His chances of winning the lotto are now 1:8,145,060. This is reflected in a 15% improvement in the LFP.

LFP = 25/8.14506 = 3.07

But, why stop there. Serious lotto players, that follow my lotto strategies, will apply what I call the 80% rule. They will create a Play List that has 36 numbers (80% of 46). The chances of winning a 6/36 lotto are 1:1,947,792 and out LFP is 12.84. That's a phenomenal 380% improvement in LFP.

LFP = 25/1.947792 = 12.84

Now, the more numbers you remove, the greater are the chance of removing one of the winning numbers. But, we counter this with lotto trend analysis techniques. In other words, we do a good job of selecting the numbers to include in our list. I'll freely admit that it doesn't work every time, but over the long haul, an experienced player will do much better.

Before you rush off to buy some good lotto Software, let me make one more point. Here's the bottom line. I wonder how much money the average Massachusetts player would have to spend to achieve the same LFP that our serious lotto player did? Well, we just use the LFP formula in reverse.

$ spent = 12.84 x 9.366819 = $120

The serious lotto player has a host of software tools he uses to improve his LFP even further. Read more of my articles to learn more.

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The Professor is a famous lottery expert, lecturer, columnist and the creator of the breakthrough lottery software known as LONA. The best lottery software on the market will give you a brand-new slant on the lottery.

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