How Do The Best Lotto Players Play The Lottery?

By Author: Darrel Dolph
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I have written many Lotto Blog posts and Articles where I have expounded upon the virtues of using a reduced play list to increase your odds of winning your lottery. Although, this lottery strategy applies equally well to all lotteries, one of the examples I used was the Lotto Texas 6/54 lottery.

In the example, I simply removed just one lottery number from play to demonstrate the dramatic effect this has on your odds of winning. As a result, the lottery player is left playing a new lottery called the Lotto Texas 6/53. This simple strategy has the enormous effect of removing nearly 3,000,000 wagers from play resulting in a corresponding improvement in the player�s odds of winning the lottery.

Occasionally, the lottery number the player removes is one of the winning numbers. Obviously, in this case, the player wouldn't have a chance of winning the lottery in that drawing. But, this doesn't happen very often because the player has 48 non-winning numbers from which to choose. Therefore, he can easily make a good selection over 90% of the time. Armed with this information, it is rather mystifying why ...
... everyone doesn't use this lottery strategy. But, I don't want to mislead you. Using this strategy doesn't mean you are going to win the lottery on Saturday, it only means you have increased your chances to jump for joy.

Lotto Strategy

This brings us to the point of this article. Using the reduced play list strategy, can a player do better than 90%? The answer is YES.

You might ask, how is this possible? First, the underlying assumption is that the player randomly selected a number to be removed from play. But, the selection doesn't have to be random. Why not make it an intelligent choice?

Lotto Number Patterns

Observing lottery number patterns in the lottery's history can help you extend a streak of good picks. So, what exactly is a lottery number pattern? A lottery number pattern is any information that you find by studying the history of lottery number performance that could increase your odds of winning the lottery.

For example, in the Lotto Texas, 6/54 lottery, the number 45 has performed very poorly over the lottery's history. In fact, it is the worst.

It averages less than 1 hit every 15 drawings and it has extended dry spells of 36, 43, 29 and 31 drawings without a hit. In other words, it's bad performance is not a fluke. It has been very poor over a prolonged period.

So, on the average, you would be able to increase your odds of being right from 90% to 93.3%. But, if you catch it on one of its extended vacations, you could ride this horse for 29 drawings or more, improving your odds of being right to 96.7% or better. It looks like the number 45 would be a good candidate to remove from your Play List. This is just a sampling, a taste; a glimpse of what serious lottery play is all about.

The number 45 isn't the only lottery number pattern a serious lottery player would observe. Other good choices for Lotto Texas 6/54 are numbers 54 and 1. Number 54 has dry spells of 49 and 36 drawings. Number 1 has dry spells of 38, 47 and 29 drawings.

Increase Your Chances

So, can you consistently increase your odds of winning the lottery? Absolutely!

But, a serious lottery player will be more aggressive. Why? Because, he realizes that his odds of winning the lottery increase by removing more numbers.

Understand, aggressively removing numbers from a play list, increases the probablility that a mistake will be made and a winning number gets removed. But, putting some good lottery software in the hands of an experienced player, should allow him to achieve a success rate of 75% or better.
Professor Dolph is the world-famous Lottery expert, lecturer and columnist who authored LONA, your LOtto Number Advisor. Visit Picking Lottery Numbers for a different look at Lottery software.