I decided to do the work and run the ultimate test using his information. The idea is to run his methods against ALL of the Ohio Rolling Cash 5 previous drawings, to see what results I would have had if I had been using his methods from the beginning. I wrote a new program to do this, since that is much faster (and more accurate) than doing it by hand.
The most important thing to remember is that I can NOT accurately estimate HOW much I would have won each time, because that depends entirely upon the wheel used. One wheel might have the right 4 numbers together and give me $300, while a different wheel might only have 3 together and give me $10 instead.
A second thing to remember is that the COST of playing also varies by the wheel used. I'll give the total MINIMUM I would have spent based on the amount of numbers supplied by the program, but the actual cost would certainly be higher depending upon the wheel I would choose to play at the time.
Ok... now on to the results!
As of 7/10/2005, there have been 239 Ohio Rolling Cash 5 drawings.
USING HIS METHOD (the gentleman selling his method on eBay... the subject of this entire thread):
The minimum cost to play to date would be $2,766.
I would have had 2 hits ($1 wins) 69 times.
I would have had 3 hits ($10 wins) 37 times.
I would have had 4 hits ($300 wins) 5 times.
I would have had 5 hits ($100,000+ jackpot) 1 times.
There you have it!
To me, the most important number is that single 5 hit win. Obviously, that does NOT mean I would have won $100,000+, because that depends upon the wheel getting the right numbers in the right order. What it means is the POTENTIAL to win the jackpot was there, and no other software/information/whatever has ever gotten me close to that!
Clearly if your goal is smaller wins to break even, it's pointless. I would have spent much more than I won for anything less than 5 hits. But I personally don't play for the smaller wins (to me, a smaller win just makes the whole thing a little less expensive... that's all). My goal is the jackpot, and nothing less really matters to me.