10 Great Ways To Improve Your Chances Of Winning Lotto
By Terry Fisher, LottoMasta International
The Biggest winning lotto Tip - Join a Syndicate and play a System Entry; it's the one thing all experts agree on. But if you want to play alone, here are the other Top 9 tips for winning lotto from LottoMasta International. The examples below use a 45-ball for illustration but the concepts apply to all lotteries.

Avoid what Lotto Experts call the Birthday Numbers Rule - having all 6 winning lotto numbers under 31. While it is not an absolute rule, payouts are generally much lower. For example, NSW State Lotto (Australia) had 27 First Division winners on 9 Oct 2000, when all the winning lotto numbers were under 31. Imagine going to bed thinking you had won a million - and waking up to find you had $37,037!

Play the "LottoMasta Guaranteed Winning numbers Strategy." By playing every number in your - You are guaranteed to have all 6 winning numbers, in as little as 8 or 9 games. With just one ball guaranteed correct, your is now a 5-from-44 game. The odds for this are 1-in-1,086,008 (45-ball lottery). While it is still a 1-in-a-million shot, that is a lot better than a 1-in-a-8-Million shot ! And this simple technique takes 2 minutes and requires only 8 games for a 45-ball lottery, 9 for a 49-ball lottery. Any edge you can get in a game that requires beating odds of 8,145,060-to-1 (45-ball lottery) or 13,983,816-to-1 (49-ball lottery)is worth having.

Has your changed the total number of balls? For example, if you are still using numbers from when Australian lotto was a 40-ball game - add some new games with numbers over 40. The total combinations possible from 40 numbers are 3,838,380. The combinations possible from 45 numbers are 8,145,060. If your numbers are all under 40 - more than half the combinations that can win are missing from your games.

The most drawn result has 3-odd numbers and 3-even numbers. This comes out 1-week-in-3 (on average) and represents 33.5% of the 8,145,060 possible winning lotto combinations. Add 4-odd numbers plus 2-even numbers, and 2-odd numbers plus 4-even numbers - and you cover 81% of all possible results. Put another way, these three game types win (on average) 8 weeks out 10. The one-third and 80% rules above are very similar across all 6-ball lotteries.

The same 20-year study by LottoMasta International shows that a winning lotto result with no consecutive numbers occurs around 1-week-in-2 on average (47% of the 8,145,060 possible combinations are of this type). A winning lotto result with just two consecutive numbers accounts for 40% of the 8,145,060 possible combinations. Together, these two results account for almost 9-out-of-every-10 results (87%). These figures hold true for most 6-ball lotteries.

Try to keep "balance" using games with three high numbers and three low numbers (33% of the possible combinations are of this type). Balanced entries do best - try not to have more than 3 numbers in any set of 15 (1-15, 16-30 and 31-45) for a 45-ball lottery, not more than 3 numbers in any set of 16 (1-16, 17-32 and 33-49) for a 49-ball lottery.

82% of all results, in theory and practice, are of two types. The most probable result will have no winning numbers from the previous week (40% of the 8,145,060 combinations) or just one winning number from the previous week (42% of the 8,145,060 combinations). This means that this game type result wins (on average) 8 weeks out 10

Your results will improve if you get a Education. Most of the above facts are from 2 books - 1,000 Weeks of Lotto - What Worked, What Didn't (a 20-year analysis of Australia's Saturday Night results) and Winning



Lotto Secrets. Both are available from or LottoMasta International, PO Box 196, Bond University, Qld 4229, Australia. Most lotto players resemble a golfer trying to hit a hole-in-one - while blindfold! Learn about your lottery!

If you learn nothing else, learn this - Play Sensibly. Money for feeding your family is just that, it is NOT for buying lotto tickets. You need to play with money you can afford to lose, because most weeks that is exactly what will happen. You can improve your chances of winning lotto, but spending money you can't afford to lose is downright dumb. Do not do it. Please!

In the Lottery, it's true that anything is possible - but some things are more probable than others! Play the high-percentage shots and watch your luck improve. Constructing your games using these rules - and using all the numbers in your - is the simplest, easiest, quickest way to improve your winning lotto results.

Useful Trivia - You can use Microsoft Excel's "Combin" function to calculate lotto odds.

Terry Fisher, author of Winning Lotto Secrets, 1,000 Weeks of Lotto and Powerball Strategies, offers this advice on winning lotto. Terry's Wins include 6 winning lottery numbers in March 2006 and again July 2006.
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