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• rundown99

  

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  Mar 28, 2007, 1:51 pm

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  Question for you:

   

   Suppose someone played $100 twice a week on Powerball, using the same sets of numbers.  Do you think that person would have better luck?  There was a time when I played $50 worth of tickets using numbers from losing Quick Picks as the white balls and using a certain number as the red ball.  Eventually, I matched the red ball and won about $300 dollars, but I wasn't any closer to the jackpot and I spent about $250 on the previous two weeks.  So I only gained about $50.  Have any of you tried this method?  What are your thoughts?

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• four4me

  

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  Mar 28, 2007, 2:24 pm

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  there haven't been enough drawings to say which idea is better than the next. if i were to play 100 lines i would make sure that none of them had already hit a jackpot. i would try and use combinations of numbers that didn't repeat often.  each line would contain as many different combinations to cover all the numbers for the white balls. And i would probably select random powerball.

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• KY Floyd

  

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  Mar 29, 2007, 4:11 pm

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  Luck is luck, and how often you play won't change it. As far as probabilities and strategy, it makes more sense to spend the same amount, but play more numbers at once.  Instead of spending money on every drawing spend 10 times as much on only 10% of the drawings, and do it when the jackpot is big. Buying a given number of tickets for the same drawing actually gives you a better chance of winnig than buying the same number of tickets 1 per drawing.It's only a very slightly better chance, but it is better. The main advantage is that winning would probably mean winning a bigger jackpot.