First time in the Texas Pick 3

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jwhou — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:49:50 GMT

Well, I guess that means there's no reason to expect repeats to be exploitable.

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tiber — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:45:15 GMT

Texas Lottery is not RNG. NO Computer involve.

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jwhou — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:34:51 GMT

Interesting.

The P3's tend to be RNG draws but the programs would be seeded from accepted physical random variables such as the exact time that the program was invoked, the number of processes running on the system, how long the computer had been up and clock drift which is usually due to environmental factors like temperature. If repeats are occurring more often then expected then that means there's an awful lot of consistency in how the computers are being used at each draw such as the prog... [ More ]

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rcbbuckeye — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:21:25 GMT

I rarely play P3 anymore, but I still watch and study the numbers. I find that you can make a profit playing for repeats. Each year you can figure on 3 or 4 repeats from the previous draw...day to night, night to day, day to day, and night to night. A few years ago I was spending a tremendous amount of money on this game, (before I learned about repeats) and while I won regularly, it wasn't enough to cover the cost of playing. I since realized that keeping the cost of play within reason is part... [ More ]

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karamu — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:40:04 GMT

jwhou Texas has a good flow to it's lottery system. Just pick yourslef a double as a pet number then wheel it, for example 100, 010, 001, ride it as your pet number then play all those other number. I see you're a numbers man so you should be ok.

First time in the Texas Pick 3

jwhou — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:55:48 GMT

Well, I finally jumped into playing the Texas Pick 3 games. After a careful analysis of the odds and of the Sum It Up option, I decided that it was the Sum It Up where the hits were to be made so I played exact numbers with minimum $0.50 wagers but selected numbers to cover a spread of sums adjusting the bet amount to maximize the expected return at close to a $0.50 on the dollar expectation. It would seem that playing boxed simply drops the expectations down to $0.48 on the dollar from $0.50 so... [ More ]