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In the last post, Lottery Tips - Birthday Bias, I showed all of you that insist on using important dates as your lottery numbers, how to do it right; how to play the odds.  But, even if you’re a serious lottery player, like me, that doesn’t put a lot of stock in the lucky date strategy, you can benefit from knowledge gained from the graph below.  It’s the same graph that I used in the last post. I repeated it here for your convenience. I’m going to use the AZ539 lottery for this example.

Here’s the scenario. You’re a serious lottery player and use the 80% rule that I recommend to determine the size of your play list. The size of the Arizona lotto is 39 numbers, therefore, the play list should contain 31 numbers. You use the analysis power of LONA™ to help you create your play list. You’re confident in your analysis and decide to be more aggressive. Your play list contains 29 numbers.

Of course, many of the numbers in your play list will be between 1 and 31. They didn’t end up in your list because they are your wife’s birthday or your anniversary, but because of your diligent efforts in handicapping the AZ539 lottery.

You decide to place 100 wagers using the play list you created. Here’s your list.

1  2  3  4  7  9  10  11  13  14  15  16  17  19  21  22  24  25  26  27  28  29  31  32  33  35  37  38  39

Historically, 37% of the winning tickets are made up of numbers between 1 and 31.  Therefore, you use LONA™ to create 37 wagers from the numbers in your play list that fall between 1 and 31.

1  2  3  4  7  9  10  11  13  14  15  16  17  19  21  22  24  25  26  27  28  29  31

Next, you use LONA™ to create 63 wagers from the full 29 number list. You now have your 100 wagers for the next drawing. This is called playing the odds.

Let’s understand something here. We have no more idea of which numbers will be drawn in the next drawing than anyone else. The same is true in other forms of gambling like Poker or BlackJack. The player doesn’t know which card will be dealt next. But, he is observant and plays the odds. Does he win every hand? Of course not. But, over time, he does pretty well.

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Lottery Tips

In the last post, Lottery Tips - What’s Our Anniversary, Honey? , I showed you a graph of the percentage of date only lottery jackpots for all of the 5 number lotteries in the US and Canada.  A couple of you have asked what good is it? Well, as with any good Lottery Strategies, they are worth nothing if you don’t use them. So, the Best Lottery Advice for today is how to take advantage of the knowledge we gained from that graph.

First, I’m going to zoom in on the 35 to 40 sized lotteries. The new graph is shown below. Notice that I’ve added an average trend line. This line represents statistically the percentage of date type lottery jackpots that we should expect. If a lottery is above that line, then it is producing more date type winners than is expected. It is showing a bias in favor of date type winners. The two most prominent examples of bias favoring date type winners are the MA535 and the AZ539. The opposite is true for lotteries below the line. The two most prominent examples of negative bias to date type winners are the OK536 and the TX537.

The benefit here, to serious lottery players, is pretty obvious.  For example, if you are playing the AZ539 lottery, you should bias your wagers in favor of date type wagers.  How much bias? Make 37% of your wagers of the date type.  For example, if you buy 100 tickets, then make sure that 37 of them are of the date variety. For any other lotteries shown, find it’s percentage and use that.

What you are doing is playing the odds. This becomes an overall strategy that you apply every drawing over a period of time. This is not something you do for 1 drawing and cast it aside because it didn’t work. These types of Lottery Strategies are long term and consistency is the key.

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