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Are pre-draws corrupting your lottery strategy ?Reply
If missing data is not a problem then why play missing structures.....that is the hallmark with the lot soft pro program youre using isnt it...? The truth is odds do change in relationship to the data your using ..... the key here is missing data....ya know as in missing data ? Missing data is what renders your software program ineffective if not you'd be winning like gangbusters which btw you aren't.
Jan 6, 2012, 12:35 pm - crow - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball at $2.00 - What jackpot level do you start playing?Reply
I won't make a decison based on an arbitrary amount. Spending $2 for a chance at a cash jackpot of $100 million or more becomes stupid shortly beyond the point where the same $2 would make you twice as likely to win a Megamillions jackpot that's half of the PB jackpot. Spending twice as much for the same odds demands a possible reward that's at least twice as big. The bigger 2nd prize means PB offers a very slightly better risk to reward ratio at double the jackpot value, but the ratio becomes e
Jan 6, 2012, 3:06 am - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

Powerball multi-state lottery to raise prices, jackpotsReply
It was done in mid-2009, but applied retroactively to January 1st. The bill came a few months after a group of NJ players won a MM jackpot of about $200 million (annuity value), and many of them believe that was the reason for the change in the law. News articles quoted a state official as saying it would generate about $8 million per year, but figuring the group collected a cash prize of at least $100 million the state would have reaped a windfall of about $11 million just from that one drawing
Jan 6, 2012, 2:36 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Are pre-draws corrupting your lottery strategy ?Reply
I'm not sure which process they use for testing pick-3 games but it's easy to assume ten balls numbered 1 to 0 are put into three machines and then the machines are turned on and tested. If the same machines and same ball sets are used from for the actual drawing, the odds of the same three numbered balls being drawn is exactly the same as any other 3 digit combination. The Texas Lottery publishes the results of the pre-drawing tests after the drawings and I too would be upset if the number I
Jan 6, 2012, 12:16 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are pre-draws corrupting your lottery strategy ?Reply
Think sampling, there's no reason pre draws should change the game. You don't have to eat the whole pot of stew to know how it taste when a spoonful of it will tell you the same thing. And sampling a spoonful of it won't change its taste unless you add/change something afterward. While some players complain that pre draws mesh up their playing strategies, no one has ever shown a losing ticket that matched all the numbers in a combination that came up in a pre draw on the same date because th
Jan 5, 2012, 11:30 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball multi-state lottery to raise prices, jackpotsReply
Well I've come to the conclusion that I don't really hate it, and I'd actually like it if the Powerplay option multiplied the second tier prize more. I will probably still play a ticket when the Jackpot is high enough. The main reason is that there are now two options, with essentially the same odds (of a JP win.) The Mega Millions is a dollar, or 2 dollars with a random multiplier. The Powerball is 2 dollars, or 3 dollars with a fixed multiplier. Personally, I think it'd be nice if MUSL
Jan 4, 2012, 12:23 pm - Boney526 - Lottery News

Powerball multi-state lottery to raise prices, jackpotsReply
To make thigs more interesting in regards to the Powerball number, the back of the current playslip, 59 /39 says the odds against having just the Powerball are 1: 62. Let's see, 1: 62 on a 39 number matrix, 1: 56 on a 35 number matrix. Voodoo math, at best. Marketing.
Jan 4, 2012, 2:07 am - Coin Toss - Lottery News

Powerball ChangesReply
It matters not to Quick Piggers!!!!!!! Pay up swine!!!!!!! The odds are better. Release the pigs!!!!!!!!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Jan 2, 2012, 5:58 pm - jarasan - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery stop loss limit=$60 annually with three playing methods starting in 2012Reply
Recently when MM had a $254 million jackpot, 67 million tickets were sold and if each ticket had a different combo, there was only 38% chance of the jackpot being won. In other words, there were 108 million combos not sold. At $2 a ticket for the same amount of money spent, the chances of the jackpot being hit was less than 20%. Almost $213 million worth of tickets were sold for the March 6, 2007 MM $370 million jackpot drawings and I believe that is the all time record. Had it been $2 at tic
Jan 2, 2012, 11:11 am - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Powerball ChangesReply
sunjune6, The bottom matrix, the Powerball, is going from 39 numbers down to 35, thus the 'better chances of winning'. It's still trying to find a needle in a mountian of haystacks, but it is lower odds.
Jan 2, 2012, 10:42 am - Coin Toss - Lottery Discussion Forum