Hi RJOh!
Thanks for your feedback, although I never claimed to be the first person to come with the idea to form a lottery pool! LOL. But you're right, I searched for Ken Silver but didn't search for lottery pool, duh! So I just did that and got a lot of good information.
When I did the search on the Ken Silver system, I only got 2 results. So when you said there have been several posts, I got confused. I went back to the search and noticed that you can change the date range of your search parameters, which I hadn't noticed before. So now I can see all history.
I read pretty much all of the posts, and I didn't see anyone say that they actually followed the directions for any length of time, which is to play 120 lines each time over a few months time minimum (unless you get a huge win quicker and want to stop at that point).
as to your notion of buying 500 lines, Ken does say that he recommends 120 lines max because after that you're not really improving your odds of winning (using his system, anyway). Yes, that's expensive. Hence the lotto pool idea.
All I saw was a bunch of people saying they tried the system and it didn't work. But they didn't give details, like how many lines they played at a time and over what period of time. If there's anyone still posting on this board who has used this system to its full potential the way Ken recommends, I would love to hear details.
I read an interview of him that was pretty interesting. I don't know much about lottery playing, but it seemed to make sense. He explains how his system works and how it's different from wheeling. He explains why his system is better than just picking random numbers. He explains why he called his system "honest" (which by the way he changed, probably because a lot of people took it the wrong way and were turned off).
Anyways, yeah, like I said, $120 per game is pricey, which is probably why a lot of people aren't getting the results advertised (they're playing smaller amounts).
It looks like I'll probably just have to wait to try it out on my own once I've gotten my regular business off the ground and can afford it!
Thanks again...
~Lisa~