Winning The Lotto With Statistics

Almost everyone loves to hear interesting facts and statistics. However, most of the time they are completely pointless in real life.For example, did you know that the odds of an average golfer hitting a 'hole in one' in a given round are 12,000-to-1 and the odds of getting two in the same round are 67,000,000-to-1?

So imagine how amazing it was to everyone (and how amazing it still is) when a guy used his $1000 lottery winnings to buy a ticket that won him $1 million! The odds of this happening are astronomical. Very lucky indeed.

What would you think of a guy who earned a regular working man's wage but spent most of it on lottery tickets? Well theer is a New York man who does just that.In the hope, and false belief, that he could win a big prize simply by buying more random tickets Mr. Otero spent a whopping $30,000 a year on lottery tickets!

The truth is that, statistically, buying more tickets, that are chosen randomly and not using a mathematical system, does not increase your chances of winning a prize in the lottery at all!

Do you know that if you buy a 6 from 49 lottery ticket, like those sold on the UK National Lottery, on a Monday that you have a statistically better chance of being dead on Saturday than winning the lottery jackpot?

You see unfortunately the odds of winning the jackpot ion such a draw are fourteen million to one while the odds of being dead are much lower. In fact you even have a better chance of becoming a saint because the odds are only killed by lightning are roughly 2650000 to 1!Every ticket you buy has the same odds of winning. Therefore ray Otero's approach does not increase his odds of winning a top prize!

Take heart though because you can do certain things that dramatically increase the odds of you winning a huge lottery prize and they don't require you to spend a fortune doing it! Let's take a wheeling system as an example.

Wheeling numbers for the lottery  greatly improves your chances of winning a prize. Just by adding 1 extra number to your pick for the UK lottery has an amazing effect on the probability of you winning. Although wheeling means you must buy more lottery tickets it also ensures you have a much, much higher chance of winning a top lottery prize.

When you wheel 7 numbers instead of 6 you go from a 14 million to 1 chance of winning the lottery to half a million to 1 - just by adding an extra number and the price of the tickets only adds up to £28!

So, if Mr. Otero had only played a 6 from 49, or similar type of lottery, and wheeled his numbers he may well be a very wealthy man by now.