Your Lottery's Dirty Little Secrets

By Author: Darrel Dolph
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Certain secrets can give you an advantage. Professional gamblers have closely guarded secrets that give them that winning edge. Even your lotto is hiding secrets from you. Knowing these lotto secrets can give you an advantage, improve your odds of winning the lotto and even save you money. Are you interested in learning about these lotto secrets? Then, read on.

In a summary fashion, I've covered this topic before in some of my other articles. But, this time I'm going to be very specific and use examples from an actual lotto to show what is possible. Our example lottery is the New York Lotto.

These little secrets are called Longshots. Naturally, if you value your money, you would stay away from betting on a Longshot. But, the term Longshot has a different meaning in the context of your lottery. In the lotto, a Longshot is any lotto number that hasn't hit in the last 10 drawings. This definition traces its roots back to the early days of the lottery when the lotto numbers that hit in the last 10 drawings were called Hot, because of their recent activity. Consequently, all lotto numbers that didn't make the ...
... list were considered to be Cold or Longshots. The Longshot definition lingers to this day.

Unlike other games of chance, you would be making a big mistake if you avoided playing Longshots in your lottery. If you are, or plan to be, a serious lottery player, then this is a dirty little secret you need to know. How so? Why is your consistant success so dependent upon Longshots. Here's what you need to know.

Let's get very specific and look at actual lotto numbers from the New York Lotto; a 6/59 game. We're going to analyze 242 drawings from the NY659 lottery starting on 5/9/07 and show you just how bad things can get when Longshots are omitted and just how good things can get if you know the New York Lotto's dirty little secret.

On the average, over 242 drawings, 2.03 of the winning lotto numbers were Longshots! That is 33.8% of the winning lotto numbers! Wait a minute. Let's make sure that you grasp the full significance of this revelation. On the average, out of every 6 winning numbers drawn, 2 of them were Longshots! WOW! Therefore, your terrible luck playing the lottery over the last 2 1/2 years is clearly understandable. It wasn't due to bad luck, it was because you didn't know this secret.

For all lotto players, this knowledge is like a lighthouse on a foggy night. It's like a spare parachute for a sky diver. It's like knowing that Dudley Do-Right will arrive just in time to save Nell from the dastardly Snidely Whiplash. Now, this knowledge may not save your life but it will save you money! Let me explain.

Let's look at Longshots from aslightly different angle. It required at least one Longshot to win the lottery jackpot 93% of the time for the NY659 lottery. That's 93 drawings out of every 100. Therefore, over the last year, if you didn't play Longshots, you didn't even have a chance of winning the lottery jackpot in 93 of those drawings. You would have been wasting your money on wagers that didn't even have a chance of winning the lottery.

The more we look into Longshot performance, the more we learn. Keep in mind, this is not a theory, these are hard facts taken directly from the lottery drawing results. The table below shows the results of 242 drawings.

3 drawings had 5 Longshots
21 drawings had 4 Longshots
56 drawings had 3 Longshots
82 drawings had 2 Longshots
62 drawings had 1 Longshots
18 drawings had 0 Longshots

This table says it all. You can see that it took 2 or more Longshots to win the lottery, 67% of the time. It's easy to see that if you didn't know New York Lotto's dirty little secret, you were beating a dead horse.
The Professor is the world-famous Lotto expert, lecturer and columnist who authored LONA, your LOttery Number Advisor. Go to Picking Lottery Numbers for a different look at Lotto software.