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Lottery Number Advisor - Best PowerBall Play Lists

Lottery Number Advisor

PowerBall

Lottery Number AdvisorTonight’s a big night if you play PowerBall. Everyone has got their eye on the $133 Million jackpot. So, it looks like a good time to put the best lottery software, your Lottery Number Advisor to work and find the best 30 number play lists for the PowerBall lottery. Let’s see what we found.

The primary method used by serious lottery players to Improve Their Chances of Winning the Lottery, is to create a good play list. To do this requires the best lottery software you can find. This time your Lottery Number Advisor did all the work for you and found the ten best 30 number Play Lists for the PowerBall lottery.

If you are just picking up this thread for the first time, you may need some background. Here is a list of the posts that lay the foundation for our discussion of good Play Lists. After reading them, come back and see what’s happening in the PowerBall lottery.

Over a 60 drawing period of the PowerBall lottery, you should expect to see 2 lottery jackpot winners. Below is a table showing ten of the best 30 number Play Lists we could find using our lottery software. In fact, there are thousands of Play Lists that beat the 2 drawing average.

PB559 - Play Lists with Most Jackpot Hits Over the Last 60 Drawings

PB559 - Play Lists with Most Jackpot Hits Over the Last 60 Drawings

Unbelievably, the performance of 9 of these play lists are 9 times better than the average! This example of what is possible again demonstrates that play lists rule. It reinforces my philosophy that the first step to Improving Your Chances of Winning the Lottery is to create a good play list.

This is absolutely true for all lotteries and I’ve proven it over and over again with my blog posts. But, for those that still are not convinced, your Lottery Number Advisor will continue to use our lottery software to find the best and the worst play lists across the US and Canada. Don’t miss the next post.

Lottery Number Advisor - PowerBall Play Lists

Lottery Number Advisor

PowerBall

Lottery Number Advisor PowerBall is called America’s game. It is played in 30 States, Washington D.C. and the US Virgin Islands. With the jackpot up to $138 Million, it is definitely deserving of some attention. So, we’re going to analyze PowerBall using your Lottery Number Advisor, our lottery software, and find the best Play Lists and the worst Play Lists. These might help you in the next drawing. Here are the results.

As some of you have noticed, I continue to hammer home the idea that you must have a quality play list to Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lottery. Such lists are within your grasp with the right lottery software. Without the best lottery software, you might just miss them.

If you are just picking up this thread for the first time, you may need some background. Here is a list of the posts that lay the foundation for our discussion of good Play Lists. After reading them, come back and see what’s happening in the PowerBall lottery.

Our lottery software analyzed the last 60 drawings of the PB559 lottery looking for the worst 30 number Play Lists. Over a 60 drawing period, you should expect to see 2 lottery jackpot winners on the average. Any Play List with less is under performing. Here are 10 of the worst Play Lists we could find for the PowerBall lottery.

PB559 - Play Lists with Fewest Jackpot Hits Over the Last 60 Drawings

PB559 - Play Lists with Fewest Jackpot Hits Over the Last 60 Drawings

I don’t think anyone would argue that you can’t get any worse than zero. The table above shows 10 such lists. But, there are thousands of list just as bad. So, choosing a good play list is paramount to Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lottery jackpot

Playing PowerBall with lists like these isn’t as much fun. So, using our lottery software, your Lottery Number Advisor will find the ten best Play Lists for you in tomorrows post. Don’t miss it.

Lottery Tips - All Bets Are Off

Lottery Tips

Lottery Number AdvisorIn the last post, Lottery Tips - Powerball - What Are the Odds , we alerted all you Powerball players that the game had changed. Previously, it was a 5 out of 55 drawing and now it’s a 5 out of 59 drawing. I refer to this as a Format change. Whenever a Format change occurs, our LONA™ customers begin emailing us wanting to know what to do.

There are two types of Format changes. In one, the lottery itself remains the same. The only thing that changes is how many drawings are held each week. This type of change is seamless because the existing database of winning lottery numbers is still valid and can still be used.

The second type of Format change is disruptive. The Powerball change falls into this category. In this case, the structure of the lottery drawing itself is changed; like changing from a 5/55 to a 5/59 drawing. When this happens, all bets are off. The 5/59 is an entirely new game and the numbers drawn have no relationship to the old database. Therefore, we have to start over and create a new lottery database with the first drawing occurring on 1/7/2009. The old 5/55 database is useless to us. Now, we have to build up the new database with winning numbers over the next several months until we had a record large enough to analyze. Why? Because one lottery drawing does not a lottery trend make.

That’s your Lottery Tip for today.  Enjoy.

Lottery Tips - Powerball - What Are the Odds

Lottery Tips

Lottery Number AdvisorOnce in a while, a lottery may change it’s format.  For instance, PowerBall started out the new year by making a change. Powerball used to be a 5 out of 55 drawing with a bonus number (Powerball) drawn.  As of Saturday, January 7, 2009, the Powerball drawing will be a 5 out of 59 drawing with the Powerball being a 1 out of 39 drawing.  Two drawings are held each week on Wednesday and Saturday.

The odds of winning, of getting all 5 winning numbers is 1 in 5,006,386.  To win the jackpot you will also need the Powerball. The odds of that are 1 in 39.  Therefore, the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 39×5,006,386 or 1 in 195,249,054!  Whew!  With odds like that everyone could use some help. Seriously. You can Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lottery jackpot by using LONA™, the Lottery Number Advisor, and playing smart.

So, good luck to everyone playing the Powerball lottery. I hope YOU Win the Big One.

Lottery Jackpots - Where are they?

Lottery Jackpots

Lottery Number Advisor

Recently I’ve been discussing some basic Lottery Strategies that take advantage of a bell shaped curve of a lottery’s performance. I was hoping to stimulate some response but was surprised to see that, instead, I had created a controversy about Lottery Jackpots.

It makes my day when I see other lottery players getting excited about my favorite topic. Their passion for the lottery gets my juices flowing. But, in this case, for the sake of civility, a sanitized version of these complaints goes something like this:

The bell shaped curves are nice but Lottery Jackpots, the actual winning lottery numbers, don’t act like that!

Au contraire mon ami.

How can I put this nicely? Well, I can’t. Not only are my fellow lottery players wrong, they are wrong absolutely and across the board! ALL LOTTERIES, follow the bell shaped distribution, both in theory and, I state most emphatically, in practice. I hope that’s clear enough for everyone.

Now, you’re waiting for me to back it up. No problem. If you were sitting here with me at my computer, I would play one of my favorite games to make a point. I would say to you something like this: “I’m so confident in my position that I will let you pick any lottery at random. Then, I will use LONA™, the Lottery Number Advisor, to make my point.”

So, you choose the PowerBall 5/55 lottery. Here’s the graph of 280 drawings of the PB555 lottery. Notice the Lottery Jackpots, the actual winning lottery numbers, form a bell shaped curve just as theory predicts.

Lottery Jackpots

Not impressed? OK, pick another lottery. You choose the MegaMillions 5/56. Here’s the graph of 282 drawings of the MM556 lottery.

Lottery Jackpots

Are you a believer yet? No? OK, pick another lottery. You choose the Illinois Lotto 6/52. Here’s the graph of 264 drawings of the IL652 lottery.

Lottery Jackpots

We could play this game till the cows come home and the result will always be the same. In fact, I challenge anyone to show me an example of a lottery in the United States or Canada, where this isn’t true. Any takers?

So, where are all the Lottery Jackpots? They’re right inside of that bell shaped curve.