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Lottery Mistakes - Playing Dates as Lottery Numbers
Since lotteries began, many players have been using dates for lottery numbers. Not the best idea, as this article will show. This strategy actually reduces their chances of winning the lottery.
In lottery drawing after drawing, people create their wagers using family birthdays, anniversaries and dates that commemorate some personally important or famous event. The thought is that these dates brought them luck before and, therefore, by playing them, it will happen again. After all, these were the luckiest days in their lives. But, instead of improving their chances of winning the lottery jackpot, this lottery strategy has the exact opposite effect.
For example, when using this lottery strategy, you are only playing lottery numbers 1 thru 31. So, as long as you are playing the MN531, WI531, WildCard531, PA530 or WV625, this lottery strategy at least has a chance of baring fruit. But, these five lotteries are the only lotteries in North America where that is true. By using this strategy in the other 70 lotteries you have either committed Hari-kari or, at the very least, shot yourself in the foot.
Here's the Hari-kari scenario. If you're playing the NY659 or the Powerball 5/59 lottery, using dates as lottery numbers would be a big mistake. Why? Because, over 47% of the lottery numbers, from 32 thru 59, will never appear in any of your wagers. But, on the average, almost half of the lottery numbers drawn will come from that group. Therefore, by doing this, you would have seriously limited your chances of winning the lottery jackpot. You've taken yourself out of the running.
Let me put an exclamation point on that statement. In the last 200 drawings of the NY659 there was only one jackpot winning ticket in which all of the numbers were between 1 and 31. That means that you were in the running to win the lottery jackpot a miserably unimpressive 0.5% of the time. You didn't even have a chance of winning in 199 of those 200 drawings.
Here's the shooting yourself in the foot scenario. Now, as the size of the lottery goes down to, 54, 49, 47, 44, 40, etc., the amount of negative impact is lessened. For example, in the last 740 drawings of the NJ540 lottery, 23% of the winning jackpot numbers contained only numbers less than or equal to 31. Not bad, you say. Well, that's one way of looking at it. But, in 77% of the drawings you didn't even have a chance of winning the lottery jackpot. Bad luck didn't cause that. You're strategy took you out of the running. You shot yourself in the foot.
Regardless of what I say, many people will continue with this approach. I wish them well. I really do. I hope they win the big one. But, what I am about, what all of my articles are about is improving your odds of winning the lottery jackpot in as many drawings as possible. Each drawing is an opportunity and life is too short to let even one go by.
About the Author Professor Dolph is a world-famous Lottery expert, lecturer, columnist and author of the breakthrough lottery software known as LONA. For a new and refreshing look at your lottery, make Professor Dolph your Lottery Number Advisor.
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