What Can You Do To Improve Your Odds Of Winning The Lottery Jackpot?

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The world over, winning the lottery has become a universal dream. Most players pick up 5 or 10 Quick Picks on the way home from work or while shopping at the store. This represents the vast majority of lottery sales. But, these players haven't done anything to improve their chances of winning the lottery jackpot.

These people are playing what is called Full Odds. For example, in Lotto Texas, the chances of winning the lottery jackpot are 1 in 25,827,165. This is an example of Full Odds. So, they'll have to be one very lucky player to win the lottery jackpot. How lucky?

Hopefully, this statement won't disturb to many of you. I believe that anyone who plays is destined to win the lottery jackpot! This is true if they live long enough. How long is long enough? Well, for Lotto Texas, drawings are twice a week. If the winning numbers never repeat, the last winner will be celebrating in about 250,000 years! Even if you were real lucky and your numbers came in 50 years from now, you wouldn't have much time left to enjoy your good fortune.

Lottery Players Dilemma

This is the lottery players ...
... dilemma. How can the player win his lottery jackpot before he's dead? This is the problem that lottery players attack every drawing. How do they reduce those 250,000 years of lottery drawings to something acceptable?

The only hope is to use some quality lottery software and their brains. The lottery software helps develop and manage their lottery strategies to improve their chances of winning. So, if you are serious about winning the lottery in your lifetime, it would be wise to purchase some good (great) lottery software. Unfortunately, there are maybe only 3 or 4 decent lottery software packages on the market and the rest are a waste of time and money. So, caveat emptor my friend.

So, just for grins, 'How much do you think you can improve your chances by using lottery software? The answer is quite a bit, actually. I think most of you will be surprised at the dramatic effect even some rather simple lottery strategies can have.

Here's an example. Let's take a look at the Lotto Texas, TX654 lottery. As I stated earlier, the chances of winning this lottery are one of the highest in the US; 1 in 25,827,165! But, you don't have to settle for that. Here is one very simple thing that you can do that dramatically effects your chances of winning the lottery.

Improve Your Odds

Don't play!!! That's right; don't play the state's game. Instead, play a different game and call it Lotto Texas 6/53. Simply remove one of the 54 numbers from play. Pick one of the 54 numbers that you believe will not be one of the winning numbers. The remaining 53 numbers become your reduced play list.

At first, you may not think this is a big deal but the effect is dramatic. This simple act improves your chances of winning the lottery to 1 in 22,957,480. So, 2,869,685 wagers have been removed! That's nearly 3 MILLION wagers!!! This has the effect of concentrating your dollars. Now, each dollar you spend has an effective value of $1.12.

So, are you going to win the lottery? Not necessarily. But, using lottery strategies like these means that your chances of winning the lottery jackpot are better than everyone else playing Lotto Texas. Here is an interesting point. If everyone playing Lotto Texas used this strategy in the next drawing, the state lottery officials would be scratching their heads the following day and wondering why their payout suddenly jumped 10% above normal.

Whoops

I know that many of you are asking this question, "What happens if you pick one of the 6 winning lottery numbers by accident?" Great question! All I can say is, "Whoops." Yes, it happens, but, how often? Remember, in each drawing, only 6 winning lottery numbers are drawn, leaving 48 lottery numbers that are not chosen! Your chances of picking one of those 48 non-winning numbers are very good. In fact, you should be able to do that over 95% of the time.

In summary, over the long haul, this approach will work in 19 out of 20 drawings. As a result, you can improve your chances of winning the lottery jackpot in 19 drawings and miss only one. All things considered, not a bad deal.
The Professor is the world-famous Lottery expert, lecturer and columnist who developed LONA, your LOttery Number Advisor. Visit Picking Lottery Numbers for a new look at Lottery software.