Article DetailsImprove your Chances of hitting the UK Lotto jackpot. |
| Date Added: June 07, 2010 05:00:00 PM |
| Author: David Deutsch |
| Category: Recreation: Games |
| According to a survey recently carried out in the US, 8 out of 9 people reduce their chances of winning fantastic amounts on the lottery by choosing their numbers from the same range - based on family members' birthdays, ages and other favourite numbers. If you select your numbers for the UK Lotto using this method, the chance is that when those six numbers just happen to get drawn, you will be sharing your fortune with a bunch of others who also have children and grandchildren who share the same birthdays. A great, but unfortunate, jackpot.
As a matter of fact, the possibility exists that you will be fortunate to ever win a jackpot amount on the UK lotto by playing once based on the same numbers. Consider the odds of actually getting all six numbers correct are just under 14,000,000:1, and let´s say that you purchased 50 times a year, over the course of an average lifetime, you will have played the lottery one hundred times each year for 50 years between the ages of 20 and 70 - a total of 5000 times. Now divide that 5000 into the 14,000,000:1 chance that you have of hitting the lotto Jackpot and you will see that by playing one ticket for each draw over the next 50 years, you still only have a one in 2,800 chance of ever winning the jackpot. If you had five grand to spare, would you bet it on a chance that had such low odds of success? Mostly likely not! UK lottery odds says that the best way to play the lottery is in a group of friends or as part of a professional syndicate. In most cases, you are still able to use your personal numbers, but there will be many tickets amongst your companions which fall outside of the "traditional" practice of picking numbers for the national lottery, and therefore creating increased winnings for combinations of numbers that you would have never chosen on your own. The more members there are in your syndicate, the better chance you have of winning a prize, and even if you do not always hit the jackpot, larger groups regularly win multiple mid level prizes, many times several thousands of pounds, which means that the five thousand pounds you are likely to gamble in the course of your lifetime has a far better possibility of winning. Lottery groups are not expensive to enter, have no long term requirments and will make you feel like a winner more often. The possibility of winning any prize in the UK lotto is just over fifty four to one, so if you join a syndicate that offers more than fifty five chances of winning, the chance is that you will pick up a prize of some value once a week. It may not be enough to cover the cost of your ticket in week one, and maybe not even weeks 2, three and 4, but when compared to the 14 million to one probability you play for at the moment, joining a syndicate will certainly improve your chances of winning the national lottery. |
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