Quote: Originally posted by Pick-4_Master on September 19, 2003
Oh that's nothing new I've read about that approach many times but wasn't aware that someone actually test this in a Laboratory.Anyway if your trying to PREDICT the numbers then that approach would be best but if your just GAMBLING and trying to TRAP the winning numbers then good old Intelligence,Skill,Software,Strategy and Draw History are all the variables you'll need.
It DOES appear that for those of us that place value on the draw history there exists 2 sub-groups... the predictors and the trappers.
I wonder if people tend to start off trying to predict then dventually move over to trapping...
I have only been at this since april or may of this year, I'm still trying to decide what is important to look at. I personally don't try to trap so high/low, odd/even, sums, gaps, ranges don't do anything for me, but I track 'em anyway because you never know what will be more useful... there are trapper tools that do come in handy, like up/down and decades... but they are still too generic for use as a predictor...
I still think it's possible with what's already available, but I think it will need to be a combination...
1. get an overall idea of the profile of the next draw via trapping...
2. fine tune it from there into a prediction.
Trapping sort of goes against my goal from the outset... never bet more than I'm willing to lose... I still sometimes end up playing 3 4 or 5 lines, but my goal is to reduce that to 1... win or lose... but I'm not willing to give up control of that 1 line to the stste's RNG's at the lottery terminal.
remember, a system (especially for the big jackpot games) need not be repeatable, it only has to work once ;-)
"chance favors the prepared mind"... I forget where I read that but it's a cool quote!