May 30, 2009
Do You Gain a Stronger Opportunity of Winning if You Subscribe to a Lotto Syndicate or Must You Bank on Your Own Lotto Numbers?
Millions of individuals each week decide to use the same lotto numbers for their entries; quite often these are birthdays, which in a lot of lotto’s will only cover a part of any potential lotto selections.
Is it Possible to crack the code implementing your own specific strategy or trust on an e-lottery syndicate to decide them on your behalf? We unrealistically believe that if we don’t do something or sometimes do it the wrong way that something bad might happen, in this event; if we miss doing our numbers that week they are sure to come up!
Being the one to decide on the winning lottery numbers is naturally something every committed player wishes they could do and as humans, we have a natural bias against anything that’s random, we like some form of control and rules that make sense to us.
So your lottery number comes up more frequently; why should it come up again? It’s impossible to choose any set of numbers that are more or less likely to win. All lotteries are a game of pure chance and each and every lottery number picked is merely at is hit-or-miss. So the bottom line in that respect is - no number is more random than the next.
If you take a look at the rules of probability, as one number is picked the likelihood of your chosen number going to be drawn next is slightly increased simply because the potential choice is reduced.
Applying the same numbers would mean you will have to play 135,000 times to even have an evens chance of winning. Unluckily, to win the lottery jackpot you will just have just about a 1 in 14 million prospect of being profitable; nevertheless we all think it could be us. Does that sound like a good possibility; would you be better off joining up to a lottery syndicate?
If you choose the same lottery numbers each and every week, remember they are still hit-and-miss numbers and you stand just as much a probability of winning with those same numbers as with a lucky-dip option. Still, if you use birthday numbers in a lottery draw your individual chances of winning the jackpot still stay the same but also your chance of keeping the lottery jackpot to yourself is dramatically reduced because so many other people use birthday numbers in their choices.
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