1. Buy more tickets.
2. Improve your odds of winning.

For example, if the odds of winning the lottery jackpot are 1:2,500,000, you can improve your chances of winning to 1:100,000 if you buy 25 wagers. But, for those of us who would prefer to use our brain rather than our money, we use lottery software to improve our chances of winning the lottery jackpot before we spend money on wagers.

Obviously, method #2 is preferable because it allows you to stretch your lottery budget while maintaining similar coverage of all possible wagers. In other words, if you can improve your odds of winning to 1:100,000 using various lottery number analysis techniques, then you only have buy 1 wager to have the same odds. So, if you’re a Serious Lottery Player, purchasing some good lottery software is a no-brainer. It pays for itself in a couple of weeks.

An intelligent lottery player tries to cover as many of the possible winning wagers as possible. I call this your Lottery Footprint or LFP. Environmentalists use a similar term, Carbon Footprint, to describe the effect each of us has on global warming. However, the environmentalists want a small Carbon Footprint and Serious Lottery Players want a large Lottery Footprint. The larger the LFP the better your chances of winning are.

I’ve created a simple formula for LFP that we can use to compare different lottery strategies. It incorporates both approaches mentioned above. Here’s the formula.

LFP = tickets purchased /# of possible wagers in Millions

Since we would like to control our budget, we will try to keep the numerator small. So, we’ll concentrate on reducing the size of the denominator; the number of possible wagers. In this article we’ll use the Massachusetts Cash WinFall, 6/46 lottery.

Everybody playing the MA646 lottery starts out with 9,366,819 possible wagers from which to choose. For the purposes of using the LFP, we will use 9.366819 in the formula. If the player buys 1 wager:

LFP = 1/9.366819 = 0.107

The easy way to improve our coverage of the MA646 lottery, increase our LFP, would be buy more wagers. For example, buying 25 wagers results in an LFP of 2.67; indicating that our coverage has improved.

But, how does the Serious Lottery Player reduce the number of possible wagers? Simple. It’s called a reduced Play List. Unlike everyone else in Massachusetts who is playing a 6 out of 46 game, our guy is playing a different game. Lets’ suppose that by using his lottery software to analyze the lottery, he is convinced that the number 38 will not hit in the next drawing. He will not play any wager that has the number 38.

I know, you’re thinking, ‘No big deal.’ and are about to stop reading. BUT, WAIT! It is a big deal. This simple act of removing 1 number from play has removed 1,221,759 wagers from play! That’s over a MILLION wagers. You see, while everyone else in Massachusetts is playing a 6/46 lottery, our guy is playing a 6/45 game. His odds of winning the lottery jackpot are now 1:8,145,060. This is reflected in a 15% improvement in the LFP.

LFP = 25/8.14506 = 3.07

But, why stop there. Serious Lottery Players, that follow my lottery strategies, will apply what I call the 80% rule. They will create a Play List that has 36 numbers (80% of 46). The odds of winning a 6/36 lottery are 1:1,947,792 and out LFP is 12.84. That’s a phenomenal 380% improvement in LFP.

LFP = 25/1.947792 = 12.84

Now, the more numbers we remove, the greater are the chance of removing one of the winning numbers. But, we counter this with lottery trend analysis techniques. In other words, we do a good job of selecting the numbers to include in our list. I’ll freely admit that it doesn’t work every time, but over the long haul, and experienced player will do much better.

Just one more point, before I send you off to buy some good Lottery Software. I wonder how much money the average Massachusetts player would have to spend to achieve the same LFP that our Serious Lottery Player did? Well, we just use the LFP formula in reverse.

$ spent = 12.84 x 9.366819 = $120

There are many more things that a Serious Lottery Player can do to increase his LFP even further, but I’ll save those for the next thousand articles.

Good luck and I hope You Win the Big One.

The pick odds of winning 1:1000
Odds of winning the Lottery = 120,000,000:1
Odds of being struck by Lightning = 2,650,000:1
You are 45 more times likely to get struck by lightning and die then win the lottery. Do NOT COUNT ON THIS!

The pick 3 is the only lottery game that gives you a legitimate chance of winning. You can throw how to win the lotto out the door. There really isn’t a method to winning the lottery but a lot of luck and prayer. You do not need that to win at pick 3.

To win at pick 3 all you need to do is develop a great pick 3 lotto system. The first thing you need to do is throw out all Triple combinations. Those are 000, 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999. In order to win those, you seriously need some luck. On an average pick 3 drawing, you will see a triple number 1 out of every 100 drawings. You have to HAVE THE CORRECT triple number set win this 100th drawing comes to even have a shot at winning. That is why you need to just ignore triples and never play them, unless you are just feeling extremely lucky about it. Doubles are not that good to play either. These numbers consist of 221, 334, 667, 858, etc… they do not occur that frequently either. I would strongly advise not playing these combinations either. You need to stick to unmatched numbers such as 123, 325, 809, 341, etc… These numbers have given proven winning results month after month no matter what state you are in.

If you can master winning the pick 3 lottery by coming up with a system to consistently win at pick 3, you can be rolling in the dough week after week. The possibilities of how much you can make are endless. On average, you can be well on your way to making over $1000.00 a week once you get the hang of it. Many people want to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on lotto software that is absolutely useless which half the time gives you triple and double numbers that are almost impossible to win! Seriously, stop wasting your money in useless garbage and just learn about unmatched numbers. You can’t go wrong. Take a look at your local states pick 3 winning numbers for the month. I bet you at least 23 out of 30 are unmatched numbers. Going with unmatched numbers and a proven formula will make your chances of winning the pick 3 lottery go from 1 out of 1000 to more like 950 out of 1000. I hope this information helps and good luck!

Be smart, be patient, and remember to overall have fun when playing the lottery. It’s a lot easier then you think to be a winner.