As you may know, Betslips minimum wager is $10.00
If a person were to play a safe bet and want as much bang for their buck as possible, then going for the 6-way box would be the most common and most frequent payout avaliable.
If said person was frugal with their hard-earned money, then playing the minimum per day would probably be the path to take.
So this imaginary player would play $10.00 per day and want to wager 35 6-way box picks, and 5 additional numbers, and get a return at or above $300 per month to make the game fun at the very least.
Below is the last 30 draws from Texas' Day Pick 3.
4/5/2006 | | 1 | 7 | 6 |
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4/4/2006 | | 7 | 0 | 2 |
4/3/2006 | | 1 | 8 | 2 |
4/1/2006 | | 8 | 8 | 1 |
3/31/2006 | | 3 | 8 | 7 |
3/30/2006 | | 6 | 6 | 8 |
3/29/2006 | | 5 | 6 | 8 |
3/28/2006 | | 9 | 8 | 9 |
3/27/2006 | | 6 | 7 | 8 |
3/25/2006 | | 4 | 5 | 6 |
3/24/2006 | | 8 | 2 | 6 |
3/23/2006 | | 8 | 0 | 8 |
3/22/2006 | | 7 | 3 | 5 |
3/21/2006 | | 1 | 5 | 2 |
3/20/2006 | | 6 | 8 | 0 |
3/18/2006 | | 7 | 9 | 5 |
3/17/2006 | | 8 | 3 | 6 |
3/16/2006 | | 3 | 0 | 4 |
3/15/2006 | | 0 | 2 | 7 |
3/14/2006 | | 6 | 4 | 8 |
3/13/2006 | | 7 | 9 | 0 |
3/11/2006 | | 0 | 5 | 3 |
3/10/2006 | | 2 | 3 | 8 |
3/9/2006 | | 8 | 3 | 0 |
3/8/2006 | | 1 | 9 | 1 |
3/7/2006 | | 7 | 2 | 8 |
3/6/2006 | | 3 | 2 | 5 |
3/4/2006 | | 1 | 7 | 1 |
3/3/2006 | | 0 | 9 | 1 |
3/2/2006 | | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Now, since this imaginary player is primarily interested in the 6-way box wins, the player will ignore all numbers that are doubles and triples.
Ok, the player wants to wheel 7 numbers to produce 35 picks and then the player will have 5 more picks to choose to round it up to 40 picks and at 25 cents per pick, will come to his $10.00 minimum.
In order to get as many hits at possible in the coming draws and ASSUMING that past performance IS indicative of future results, the player will make a list of the numbers 0 thru 9 and add up the individual number frequencies for ONLY the unique draws, ignoring the doubles and triples.
0 = 9(hot)
1 = 5
2 = 8(hot)
3 = 9(hot)
4 = 3
5 = 7(hot)
6 = 8(hot)
7 = 9(hot)
8 = 11(hot)
9 = 3
So, the player would generate 35 combos using the 0, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 producing these picks...
0235678 Results are...
023 - 025 - 026 - 027 - 028 - 035 - 036
037 - 038 - 056 - 057 - 058 - 067 - 068
078 - 235 - 236 - 237 - 238 - 256 - 257
258 - 267 - 268 - 278 - 356 - 357 - 358
367 - 368 - 378 - 567 - 568 - 578 - 678
Now, we can review the draw history of Texas Pick 3 and count up 14 hits had the player played them.
So, if the current 30 day draw history is any indication of the next 30 day draw history, we would be in the money, so to speak.
But since the player only generated 35 numbers, there are 5 picks left that the player needs to come up with to fulfill his $10.00 wager minimum and those picks could really make a difference. They could be played as all 25 cent straight or whatever. Those 5 picks could be considered wild card plays and be changed on a daily basis.
I think this is a pretty fair strategy as far as playing it safe.
Does anybody use this strategy already?