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Is There Any Way To Predict Pick-5? Past Performance is "Gamblers Fallacy"
Yesterday.. after mowing my lawn.. I was sitting around the garage when my neighbor (who is a college math teacher) came over, and we had an hour-long discussion (well, OK, an argument) concerning the above topic. Obviously.. he is way more knowledgeable about math than I am. (I barely passed Algebra-101). He says that no matter what... in picking lottery numbers, the (P) probability always remains at .5 or 50/50. For instance.. say you toss a coin... the (P) is .5 that it will come up hea
Jul 10, 2010, 1:54 pm - Liber8tor - Pick 5 Forum

Poll: Jinxing yourself?Reply
Delta Draw, Games change, yes....there's a rule in casinos if something comes up that hasn't happened before, and the rule is, If it's to the advantage of the house it's OK. Can a shooter on a dice table who is shooting from the Don't pick up his bet before the point is made or a 7-Out? In some Vegas casinos they will let them, once. The reasoning is since they were on the Don't and got past the come out roll, sure let them pick up their bet. Thorp's book, Beat the Dealer, did more for
Jun 6, 2010, 9:50 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum

$3 million jackpot winner won't quit workNews Story
Lucky player at N.D. casino doesn't want to put employees out of a job Orville Erickson could hardly believe it but his wife, Dorothea, says she just had a feeling it might be a lucky weekend. Orville Erickson hit a $2.98 million jackpot on a nickel slot machine Saturday at the Dakota Magic Casino near Hankinson. Slots manager Darrell Mireau said it was the largest jackpot in the casino's 11-year history. I still can't hardly believe it, Orville Erickson, 63, said Monday from the
Oct 25, 2007, 11:21 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery dealer opens his books to show he's not getting richNews Story
Customers strolling into Jammer's Bar and Grill at 12th and Hoyt Street SE can spend their paychecks on 18 taps of beer, hard liquor, burgers and munchies, and five pool tables.But barkeep Scott McComas' biggest profits come from the folks glued to six video-poker machines lining his tavern's rear wall, alongside an ATM.The Oregon Lottery Commission is expected to vote Wednesday to add slot-machine-style games to its network of video-poker terminals housed in bars and restaurants across the stat
Jan 24, 2005, 10:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

How To Bet the Lotteries
http://members.aol.com/barelybad/lottery.htm How To Bet the LotteriesIn order to graduate from the Summerfield School of Business at the University of Kansas, I was required to take and pass Calculus 101, Calculus 102, a course called Probability and Matrices, and the dreaded Business 368, Statistics. Those four courses in mathematics have thoroughly prepared me to dispense some 100%-authoritative wisdom about how to bet the lottery. Here it is.The best way to bet the lottery is by pretend.If y
May 31, 2002, 2:09 pm - Guest - Lottery Discussion Forum

New Jersey woman to take legal action against Atlantic City casino after being refused $2.5M payoutNews Story
What's the use in playing then? By Kate Northrop An Atlantic City casino is refusing to pay out a $2.56 million prize to a woman who had appeared to hit the jackpot on a slot machine. A New Jersey woman is preparing to file claims against an Atlantic City casino and its gaming company, International Game Technology (IGT), after being told that she won nothing instead of a $2.56 million jackpot at a slot machine. Roney Beal, 72, of Shamong Township, went from feeling on top of th
May 29, 2024, 9:20 am - Todd - Lottery News

Court finds that skill games are legal in PennsylvaniaNews Story
State casinos and lottery to co-exist with skill game machines By Kate Northrop The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court found that unregulated skill games are legal in Pennsylvania, much to the disappointment of online and retail casinos. Unregulated skill games are now considered legal in Pennsylvania after a court order from the Commonwealth Court clarified their stance on whether skill games are considered games of chance or skill. The legality of skill games, as well as what exac
Dec 8, 2023, 7:22 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pa. Lottery blames growth of skill games, lack of big jackpots for drop in profitsNews Story
The growing proliferation of so-called skill games at Pennsylvania Lottery retailers are having an impact on the lottery's ability to generate revenue to pay for programs for senior citizens, a lottery official told state lawmakers on Tuesday. Lottery executive director Drew Svitko told lawmakers skill games could lead to a $200 million decline in scratch-off ticket sales this year. That is a bigger loss than the $115 million hit last year. Svitko attributed the higher projection to the ri
Feb 18, 2020, 7:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Court rules grandmother, 90, will receive $1.85 instead of $41M jackpotNews Story
As a 90-year-old grandmother, Pauline McKee tries to maintain a sweet disposition. When she played a penny slot machine that told her she had won more than $41 million, the Antioch woman remained pretty calm. That was nice, she said, recalling her reaction. Very nice. And when she learned on Friday that the Iowa Supreme Court ruled the casino does not have to pay her the big bucks, McKee took it stoically. Instead, she won a mere $1.85 on the bet. I had my doubts from the start, be
Apr 26, 2015, 10:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery to replace aging lottery terminalsNews Story
For 18 years, an unremarkable blue machine has been a fixture at corner convenience stores, its tired keys accepting millions of bets from players hoping a lucky string of numbers a kid's birthday, an old address will just this once bend the rules of probability and change everything. But, with casino gambling coming to Massachusetts, the state lottery is looking to replace the 8,500 aging blue terminals and the massive computer system that processes nearly $5 billion in bets a year. Lottery
Feb 27, 2015, 9:22 am - Todd - Lottery News