July 2008 - Posts

• I told you LotWin One-Click was worth waiting for...

  I'll keep it quick and simple as I'm working on the next draw for the syndicate. For yesterday's draw, Polish Duży Lotek 29th July, I used the new One-Click function in our beloved LotWin 2008 lottery software for the first time and below are the results: On 'View Lines' I clicked Analyse and selected pairs, that is the pairs available from the entries created by the One-Click. We played the first few in the syndicate and the 3rd line had both numbers correct winning 60 times our stake. The 16th pair had also 2 correct that would have paid another 60 to 1 but I've only selected the first few pairs. In the actual lines produced by LotWin were entries of 4 and many 3 correct as you can see above. If you were in Poland and played the lottery there 3 correct won 16 zl, 4 correct 119.20 zl, 5 correct 3916 zl and all 6 nearly 10,000,000 zl. It is worth mentioning that the full list produced by the One-Click was 4% of the total lines had only 5 not 6 correct but the Optimum Reduction for 3 out of 6 correct produced 4 correct!!! Read the post about the Magic of Optimum Reduction and watch the video. Here is the winning fixed odds ticket: If you want to get paid 60/1 for 2 correct, 675/1 for 3 correct, 10,500/1 for 4 correct and 200,000/1 for 5 correct, login to your account or if you don't have an account register for free and see how and which lotteries I play. Read the previous posts to find out why. LotWin Guru Posted Jul 30 2008, 12:57 PM by lotwinguru with 1 comment(s) Filed under: LotWin Guru, lottery software, lottery syndicate, Polish Duży Lotek, One-Click, fixed odds

• Increasing low to mid range returns in the lottery game – Part 3

  If you haven’t read part 2 of this post do it now by clicking here. So, how do we use LotWin the lottery software par excellence to get 2, 3 or 4 numbers to play? I thought LotWin only supported 5 and 6 ball lotteries. That is true but the guys on the LotWin team have given us so many options that we can easily adjust the program to suit our game. The technique is really simple. Let’s illustrate it with an example for tonight’s Spanish La Primitiva lottery. The same applies for the UK’s 49’s lottery, the Daily lotto, Lunchtime lotto, Hotpicks, the bookmakers version of the Irish lotto (Lucky Clover), GB Lotto, etc... We first select 3 bankers as above. These will be the numbers that you DON’T want to play. It is usually easier and less confusing if you select the first 3 or the last 3 numbers in the lottery. Then we go to the Number Sets filter and select the numbers we DO want to play. In the example below I’ve selected 6 numbers. And I have set the conditions Min 3 and Max 3 numbers from the 6 to come up. Any 3 from 6 is 20 combinations but if you didn’t know that just click on Build Lines and LotWin will tell you. Don’t get confused by the text on the top of this image ‘Total lines covered 246,820'. That would be the case if you didn’t have the 3 bankers. Clicking on View Lines will show you the 20 lines LotWin has built for you: As you can see LotWin has created all the 20 entries of 6 numbers per line but 47, 48 and 49 were our bankers (the numbers we didn’t want to play). So we are left with 20 lines of 3 numbers each. If we were to play these entries for tonight’s La Primitiva it would have cost us 20 units and for ‘each line’ of 3 correct we would have a return of 675 units. (Each unit can be as low as 25p, check your account for the link). To be on the safe side I would also add a few entries of 2 numbers that would return 60 units if only 2 numbers were correct. It’s the same principle; 4 bankers and Conditions Min=2 and Max=2 instead of 3, which is 15 entries. 20+15=35 entries all together, if only a line of 2 is correct you get 60 units back, nearly double your stake. But 6 numbers are too few to play I hear you cry. Ok, let’s go higher. How about 16 numbers? That will be 560 combinations with a return of 675 if just 3 numbers from 16 were correct. Somebody show me how you can do that in your national lottery; the best wheel I know for 3 correct if 3 in 16 is 38 combinations and no lottery pays 38/1 for 3 correct. Of course you don’t want to play 560 combinations; firstly it’s the cost and second you don’t have the time to type them in. Bookmakers seem to be slow in online technology. I’m sure the LotWin team could add a routine in their 'Print Lines to Coupon' function that could send all your entries straight to your bookmaker’s website. That would require their co-operation to accept the entries but is child's play, I've been told. Any interested bookmakers should contact the LotWin team; I can see a big business opportunity here for both parties. So what can you do? Well, you shouldn’t use our trusted Optimum Reduction in this case but the Standard Reduction is what is needed here. The reason is that as you only get paid for all correct you want to be as close as possible to the winning line. You should use Standard Reduction for ‘At least 5’ winning entries or ‘At least 3’ winning entries with ‘Maximum Returns’. As you have 3 bankers the Reduction will be for ‘At least 5’ correct. If all the above seems too confusing please post comments and/or ask questions. Next, who knows… To be continued? LotWin Guru Posted Jul 17 2008, 10:23 PM by lotwinguru with no comments Filed under: LotWin Guru, lottery software, Optimum Reduction, wheeling, bookmakers, 49's

• Increasing low to mid range returns in the lottery game – Part 2

  If you haven’t read part 1 of this post do it now by clicking here. So lotteries don’t pay for 1 or 2 numbers correct and they only distribute 50% or less from the money they take. But there are companies that know everything about odds and operate with very small margins. They are called bookmakers and a few years ago they got into the lottery games knowing that they could attract a large chunk of the punters by offering way better odds for picking the right numbers. Their prizes are guaranteed and don’t depend on the number of people winning. In the UK they even have their own lottery called 49’s and the odds they offer are as follows: 1 correct number 7 times your stake 2 correct numbers 54 times your stake 3 correct numbers 601 times your stake 4 correct numbers 8001 times your stake 5 correct numbers 150,001 times your stake But before you rush to open accounts with bookmakers left, right and centre stop and read on. There is a lot of competition in the market so I looked around for best returns and the best odds I have found, for now, up to 33% higher, are available when you login to your account here. It is the link with the title ‘Play the lotteries the Guru plays’ or something similar. The payouts are as follows: 1 correct number 7.5 times your stake 2 correct numbers 60 times your stake 3 correct numbers 675 times your stake 4 correct numbers 10,500 times your stake 5 correct numbers 200,000 times your stake They have a daily lotto based on European 6/49 lotteries from Portugal to Romania. They also cover EuroMillions (they call it Spanish Lotto for some legal reason I suppose) and they have guaranteed prizes in all but one categories up to 3 times as much as EuroMillions. All that sounds too good to be true and there must be a catch somewhere, I hear you say. Well, there are a couple but it’s not as bad as you think. First catch is that you must have all the numbers you select correct; so if you play 4 numbers you don’t win anything for having 3 correct, or if you play 3 numbers you don't win anything for 2 correct. How do you then find the true odds? Well, a line of 6 numbers can be covered with 15 lines of 4 numbers. That means you need 15 bets to cover one line of a 6/49 lottery but the payout is 10,500 times your stake so your true odds are 10,500/15 = 700 to 1. If you think that a 6/49 lottery pays around 40-50 times your stake for 4 correct your advantage is 13-17 times better return on your investment than a regular lottery. It's like winning 17 times in one draw! Now let’s consider the case of having 5 correct playing your national 6/49 lottery. Your 15 lines of 4 with the bookmaker will have 5 lines of 4 correct that will pay out 52,500 times your stake per line. The average payout with your lottery normally is around 1,000 to 1 but with the bookmakers you will get 5 x 10,500 = 52,500 divided by 15 lines = 3,500 times your investment, which is 3.5 times more money than your lottery. So the first catch is not much of a problem really. I usually go for lines with 3 or 4 numbers with some lines of 2. The reason is that if I only get one line of 2 correct I will get 60 times my stake which will cover all my investment for this draw and a few draws to follow. The second catch is that bookmakers usually don’t pay top prize or there is a limit of around £1,000,000. This is probably a reason that many people stick with their national lottery in the hope of becoming millionaires overnight and as a consequence they get the worst odds most of the time. But this is the wrong way to look at it and there is a way around this which I use when a jackpot is quite a few million pounds. The solution is to play with both for those draws. The minimum cost per line with the bookmakers can be 1/4 or less than the cost of any 6/49 lottery. Having a line with 2 numbers correct at bookmaker odds can return your investment in both and you are still with a chance for the 10,000,000+ jackpot. So there you have it; you have paid off your mortgage, the kids have left home, you have booked your holidays for next year, time to have some fun. Login to your account and get ready to play with better odds when is appropriate. Next, how do I use the LotWin lottery software to create entries with 2, 3 or 4 numbers? To be continued… LotWin Guru Posted Jul 16 2008, 10:36 PM by lotwinguru with 6 comment(s) Filed under: lottery software, EuroMillions, bookmakers, 49's

• Increasing low to mid range returns in the lottery game – Part 1

  Millions of people play the lottery every week hoping to hit the jackpot. In doing so they have to deal with very low returns, in the hope of hitting the jackpot. The money lotteries pay out is usually less than 50% of the money they take in. Compare this with 97.5% returns for single zero roulette or ~99% on blackjack the conclusion is obvious. But the lotteries have another trick up their sleeve; the jackpot. Well, I will do everything in my power to help you with that but let's continue. So what are you saying LG? Stop playing the lottery and put my money in a bank to earn interest? Well, from 1970 to 2007 the average compound rate of return for the S&P 500 incl. re-investment of dividends was around 11.4% per year (source: standardandpoors.com). If instead of playing around 15 lines in the lottery twice a week you had invested that money (like some), after 39 years you would have made your first million and 6 years later your second and probably double that every 6 years thereafter. How is that for a jackpot in a lifetime? During the same period in the lottery you would have played around 72,000 lines out of 14,000,000 for a (theoretical) chance of a jackpot of 0.005 % (the actual % is probably much lower). But who needs sound financial advice when you can play the lottery and hit the jackpot, right? OK, I get your point, we need to win now, tomorrow never comes, and if it not this draw it would definitely be the one after. Let’s be clear whatever I tell you below cannot improve on the jackpot at least for now. With our favourite software we can bring this down to 1 or 2 million to 1, otherwise the jackpot will always be 1 in 14 million for a 6/49 lottery and you will need a little bit of luck to get there, but as it says at the top of my website ‘Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer’. Let me take you back to when you had a few small wins in the lottery, how did it happen? In my experience you found 2-3 strong filters in LotWin lottery software then you went on to the number sets and picked just 4-5 numbers with the condition of a couple of them to be correct. And after an Optimum reduction, if necessary, you ended up with a line of 3 or even 4 correct and you were ecstatic and rightly so. So let’s start with 5 numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How about if I told you that if you had just one of these 5 numbers correct you are guaranteed 50% profit every time on your investment? Or if you had 2 numbers correct you are guaranteed 500% profit on your investment? But the lottery does not pay for 1 or 2 correct I hear you cry. To be continued… LotWin Guru Posted Jul 15 2008, 11:32 PM by lotwinguru with 3 comment(s) Filed under: LotWin Guru, lotwin, lottery software, Optimum Reduction

• 15 entries for each one of you for tomorrow's Loto 2 Portugal draw

  Quick, login to your account and get them before they disappear. They are for tomorrow's 14th July draw based on the Portugal Loto 2. These are not your usual lottery entries. They are for 3 and 4 correct. They pay 675/1 for all 3 correct and 10,500/1 for all 4 correct. If you want to learn more login to your account and click on the link. Each one of you gets all 15 entries. The last 5 are only for me (Guru 'The'). I will explain later on how it works and why it is better than standard lottery entries. All entries were created with LotWin lottery software. If you don't know how to make reduced entries in LotWin for just 2, 3, or 4 numbers in a 6 ball lottery let me know and I will tell all. I'm late for my tiramisu and my expresso is getting cold! Amazing sunset by the way in the Med. LotWin Guru Posted Jul 13 2008, 09:33 PM by lotwinguru with 6 comment(s) Filed under: LotWin Guru, Line Builder, lottery software

• What more can I do for you?

  I have left you for a few days, my holidays are very important as you can understand, and you've all been very quiet. You are supposed to help each other, post your latest ideas and suggestions so we can win the jackpot soon. So I was looking at the sunrise early this morning from the balcony in the villa (I know it looks like a sunset but it is the sunrise) and I was thinking of ways I can help you more with your quest to win the lottery. I've been told that the one-click version should be ready soon and the good people at LotWin, the lottery software par excellence, have incorporated my request for sorting the 'Number Statistics', 'Pair Statistics' and 'Triad Statistics' pages. You will find this function very useful because you can see from there how often, numbers, pairs and triads repeat so you can eliminate/include them from/in your combinations. For example in the above image you can see that in the last EuroMillions draw 3 pairs had never appeared before, 4 had appeared between 4 and 32 draws ago and then 2 pairs appeared 109 draws ago and the last one 185 draws ago. In the triads screen 9 out of the 10 possible triads never appeared before. There are a lot of lines there to be eliminated. In the meantime as I'm sitting by the pool appreciating the beauty of this planet with the Alps in the background (I cannot believe there is still some snow there or is it low cloud?) I thought it will be a good idea to give you some more free tickets for different lotteries. So I decided, from next week, to have more entries for all of you two or even three times a week for lotteries like Loto 2 Portugal(Monday), Duzy Lotek Poland(Tuesday), Loto France(Wednesday), La Primitiva Spain(Thursday), EuroMillins (Friday), Loto Greece(Saturday) and maybe even Loto Romania(Sunday). The only thing is that you have to check your account regularly as you might have less than 20 hours to select your entries. Now, where is the Piz Buin 25? LotWin Guru Posted Jul 10 2008, 07:07 PM by lotwinguru with 10 comment(s) Filed under: LotWin Guru, lottery software