Incredible and inaccurate hype - European profesor

Reply #7

RJOh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:17:02 GMT

OHIO CLASSIC 649

possible combos of 6 / 49 numbers = 13983816

MATCH ODDS WINNING COMBOS

6/6 1 : 13983816 1

5/6 1 : 54201 258

4/6 1 : 1032 13545

3/6 1 : 57 246820

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overall odds are 1 : 53.6

winning combos 260624 = 1.86 % of possible combos

MEGAMILLIONS

possible combos of 5 / 56 + 1 / 46 bonus numbers = 175711536

MATCH ODDS WINNING COMBOS

5/5+B 1 : 175711536 1

5/5+0 1 : 3904701 45

4/5+B 1 : 689065 255

Reply #6

rdgrnr — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:59:59 GMT

I'm not the smartest light bulb in the knife drawer but sometimes it just seems like P T Barnum was right.

Common sense seems to go out the window for some people in their fervor for easy money.

The first question I always ask myself is if you have for instance broken the code of the lottery, why are you wasting time selling your system about it instead of being on tv every week with that big posterboard check in front of the cameras?

Too many people just want to believe.

Reply #5

time*treat — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:29:18 GMT

The scammers only look silly to people who understand the math or can backtest the claims. That's a small minority of people; much smaller than the number of people who are willing to send them a few bucks for their system . What counts is the many people that send funds to them, not the few that make fun of them.

Reply #4

BobP — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:33:03 GMT

Exactly, in WV6/25 the odds of a number from the previous draw not repeating in the next is only 15%. While in the FL6/53 the odds of a number from the previous draw not repeating in the next is roughly 48%.

So eliminating the possible repeating numbers is a good bet half of the time in the Florida 6/53 and not so good a bet in the WV6/25.

In all lottery games there are many many more ways to lose then there are ways to win even the minimal prize. I forget the exact number, in 6/49 i... [ More ]

Reply #3

Coin Toss — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:08:39 GMT

rebuckeye,

Good one!

RJOh,

Yeah, indeed. There's way too many clods out there trying to peddle systems that just make themselves look ridiculous. For casino games there's probably dozens of variations of Double up and catch up systems that never mention the house limit exists to make sure they won't work. Not to mention the fact that even if they did allow a non-stop progression that last winnig bet would be putting a lot of money at risk to to show a net profit of one unit of thatever... [ More ]

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RJOh — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:17:13 GMT

Many of these system sellers B.S. is meant for lottery players who played very little and never check lottery websites or a lottery forum like LP. I saw an advertisement by a system designer who claimed he had checked over 20,000 past lottery drawings and discovered a few facts.

1. Less the 15% of the drawings had a number from the previous drawing.

Any decent lottery software would show it happens in 50% of more of the drawings even in lotteries like PowerBall and MegaMillions that use a

Reply #1

rcbbuckeye — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:34:54 GMT

My first thought is that it's Jerry Jones trying to think of ways to pay off his new stadium.

Incredible and inaccurate hype - European profesor

Coin Toss — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:04:35 GMT

Recently I recived a flyer in the mail for a system by a European profesor who broke the code.

Typical baloney, but it included the information that only 2.5% of jackpot winners had played quick picks. It even said something like 4700 drawings had been studied to prove it.

Then the hype job continued and they were selling three toys of sorts, $39 each or all three for $99. One was a gizmo that spit out numbers to play (had to be some hand held RNG), another (this is good!) was a spinner th... [ More ]