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In the last post, Winning Lotto Strategies - Taking Out the Trash, we were able to raise our Lottery Footprint (LFP) to 8.19. Today, I promised to improve the LFP even further.  But, that was before I received an email that challenged the validity of removing the low and high number combinations. Some people just don’t like to take out the trash.

This question falls under the category of Balanced Wager Analysis and it’s a logical and valid question to the skeptic unfamiliar with that topic.  So, in order to provide aid and comfort to those unfamiliar with the concept of a Balanced Game, I’ve decided to introduce a soliloquy (Great word, heh!) into this dialog and forego improving the LFP for awhile. Don’t worry, this side trip will be more than worth it.

Balance Wager Primer: The Balanced Wager owes it name to the ever popular playground attraction; the teeter-totter. Ahhhhh, that brings back fond memories. Except when your best friend jumped off and your bottom was sore for a week. OUCH!  Your friend apparently forgot that the key to successful teeter-tottering is to maintain balance.

That same lesson applies to the lottery.  Too many low numbers in the wager and it tilts to one side.  Too many high numbers in the wager and it tilts to the other side. Developing an understanding of such Lottery Number Patterns is crucially important to the Serious Lottery Player.

There is a way to quantify this observation. Simply add up the numbers in the wager. For the wager 1-2-3-4-5-6 the sum is 21. This is the minimum. For the wager 49-50-51-52-53-54 the sum is 309. This is the maximum. And guess what?  The vast majority of lottery drawings are Balanced Wagers; neither tilting to far to one side or the other. So, spending your money on a wager near the minimum or maximum is probably not a very effective use of your lottery budget.

Still not convinced? Still don’t believe me? That’s OK. I’ll let the Lotto Texas 6/54 lottery speak for itself. In the next post, I’ll show you a Lottery Number Advisor graph, that very effectively, quiets even the most vehement skeptic.

I love skeptics. They’ve provided me with endless hours of satisfaction as, one by one, they come over from the dark side and make my day.

Tags: Lottery, Lottery Number Advisor, Lottery Number Patterns, Lottery Strategies, Restrictions™ by Professor Dolph
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Lottery Strategies

In the last post, Winning Lotto Strategies - Lets Cut a Little Deeper, we were able to improve our LFP by 11.2%. Today, we’re going to do even better. If you are just entering this on-going discussion for the first time and don’t know what we’re talking about, return to the first post on this subject, Winning Lotto Strategies - Footprints on the Brain, on October 20, 2008, to bring yourself up to steam.

We left off with a Lottery Footprint (LFP) of 7.24, but let me show you how you can do even better. To lay the ground work for today’s topic you might want to review Lotto Strategies - Trimming the Fat, posted on September 15, 2008.

If you remember, we were playing the Lotto Texas 6/54 lottery and using a 40 number Play List. All of our 6 number wagers are going to be created from that list. But, believe me, you don’t want to waste your money on certain number combinations. For instance, the 6 lowest numbers in the list are 1-3-4-5-6-7. The winning numbers are far more likely to be spread out from 1 thru 54 and not bunched together. The same is true for the 6 highest numbers from the 40 number Play List; 47-48-50-51-52-54.

The Serious Lottery Player will not play these wagers or other trash wagers that are very similar because he wants to concentrate his money on wagers that are more likely to be one of those Lottery Jackpots. And, amazing as it may seem, there is a lot of trash to take out.  The Lottery Number Advisor tells us that there are 397,115 wagers like this in our 40 number Play List.

In the last post we pared down our list of possible winning wagers to 3,450,780 and now that number is reduced even further to 3,053,665. Therefore, our LFP has improved to 8.19. That’s a 13.1% improvement.

LFP=25/3.053665=8.19

So, how much would the typical player have to spend to achieve the same LFP as you? The answer is $211.

Dollars=8.19×25.827165 = $211

You probably saw this coming.  You’re right. We’re not done yet.  The Lottery Number Advisor can increase our LFP even further.

Can you think of more ways to improve the LFP? If you have Lottery Strategies that fit the bill, I’d love to hear about them.

Tags: Lottery, Lottery Jackpots, Lottery Number Advisor, Lottery Strategies, Restrictions™ by Professor Dolph
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