Quote: Originally posted by Todd on November 12, 2004
How can you say The Lottery Book is anti-lottery? Here's the description:
Ok, maybe not anti-lottery per se, but anti-prediction. The kind of writer who thinks there is nothing what-so-ever you can do to help yourself beyond a tiny bit by leaning a certain way. I've read numerous reviews of this book and Don's quotes and it is clear he is a casino tout not a lottery player.
Product Description:
"The Lottery Book: The Truth Behind the Numbers" should be read by everyone who plays the state-run lotteries. Despite the fact that we players all know "the odds are a million to one" against winning those big jackpots, most of us don't know the nature of these games or the math behind them or, yes, how to most effectively play them. In this groundbreaking book, you'll learn:
Where's that "million to one" lottery game with a "big jackpot" I'd sure like to play it.
-How to increase your chances of winning a jackpot that doesn't have to be shared with other players.
Ah ha, don't play only birthday numbers, don't play combinations others play such as play slip patterns, nothing worth the price of this book and may make you a loser in some draws as a consequence of not wanting to share the prize.
-How to tell when a jackpot becomes a "positive expectation" bet and what that really means
Casino advice wrongly applied to the lottery, waiting to play for the prize to be greater then the odds, as if winning millions wouldn't be good enough.
-How to keep the long arm of the government from getting its hands on significant portions of your wins
Tax advice, whoop-de-do.
-How to figure the odds on the various lotteries and the typical scratch-off tickets
Look on the back of the play slip or the lottery web site.
-How to find "positive expectation" scratch-off games during special promotions.
Again casino type advice, even if they are paying off a dollar five in prizes for every dollar paid doesn't make you a winner, there still might not be a prize worth winning in your entire town. Besides this kind of promotion is very rare.
"The Lottery Book: The Truth Behind the Numbers" is a road map to state-run lotteries all over the country. It's a trip into the how and why of both jackpot lotteries and scratch-off tickets. Catlin will take you step by step through the process of analyzing the games.
This isn't analysis to predict winning numbers, it's breaking down the lottery director's budget, pie chart stuff.
You'll also meet people who have captured lottery lightning in a bottle--people who have won those "dream the impossible dream" jackpots. Some winners have gotten to live the dream to its fullest; some others saw the dream turn into a nightmare. You'll meet them all.
Ooh news clippings copied right off Lottery Post perhaps.
And did you know just how far back lotteries go in history? And how many cultures actually used them to finance wars, luxuries, and religion? You'll find those fascinating facts in this book as well.
Paraphrasing out of the encyclopedia the same old history of the lottery every lottery book includes to add pages, more worthless information for those wanting to learn how to win.
I guess what I'm saying, is any Lottery Post regular would find this book disapointing at best and virtually worthless for clues how to improve their prediction strategy. The reviews contained other wrong or useless bait to lure the novice player into buying the book. For that matter Dr. Z's (not Mr. Z) book and Ben Johnson's books are the same type, unhelpful proof you can't improve your chances when LotteryPost proves daily you can !!!
There are lots of good lottery books on Amazon, not Don's.
BobP