Which Mistakes Are YOU Making?

Sure you can simply stroll into just about any store and buy a lottery ticket. It is just that easy. That is just as it should be. Playing the lottery may be a fun and easy diversion with the chance of a significant payoff. You, on the contrary, are a more serious player. The truth that you'll be reading this shows that. You are motivated enough to wade through more information to discover ways to cut out the bad habits and practices and find a better way to play the lottery in an intelligent manner. Here is a list of 10 too common mistakes that lottery players make. Every single one of these items may very well be costing you ticket money, time, frustration, and maybe even millions of dollars. Read them, take them to heart, and after that put them into practice.

Playing the Wrong Lottery Games

Have you ever really considered which games you play and why? How much money do you need to win? What amount of winnings would make an influence on your life? Here in Texas we have numerous different choices. You can play a sizable multi-state game like Mega-Millions with HUGE multi-million dollar payoffs but the unfortunate odds of only 1 chance in 175,711,536 of taking home the jackpot! Wow, that is one ticket for each of over half the people of the U.S.A.

Alternatively the Texas Two-Step lottery prize begins at two hundred thousand dollars and it has often reached a million dollars. The odds of winning the smaller game are just 1 in 1,832,600! By switching from the Mega-Millions game to the Texas Two-Step you boost your chance of winning a

prize by over 95 times! Put yet another way you would have to buy 95 Mega-Millions tickets to possess the same odds of winning with one Texas Two-Step ticket.

In the area you live you'll find probably the same choices between small games with small prizes like pick thee games, five and paito taiwan six ball games with mid-range payouts, and also the huge multi-state games with incredible odds against you.

Playing Birthdays as Lottery Number Picks

Trust me, I know. You have a series of numbers that you have chosen based on your children's birthdays and also the day you got married as well as your mom and dad's wedding anniversary date. Bad move. Here is why.

When you choose lottery numbers based upon meaningful dates you limit your choices to the range of days in a month. Put simply you are limited by numbers from a pool of 1 to 31. As an example of the problem in the method think of this. Within the Texas Lotto game 6 numbers are drawn from a pool of 54 numbers. 54 numbers provide you with a whopping 25,827,165 possible combinations! When you choose from the pool of numbers between 1 to 31, how many combinations do you think there are actually to choose from? You will discover a measly little 736,281. Think about that. Whenever you choose between 1 and 31 you get 736,281 possible combinations BUT you absolutely, positively lose out on the other 25,090,884 possible combinations! Choosing birthday numbers decreases any chance of your having the winning combination by almost 97%. That is insane.

I know, you read about several individuals that chose birthday numbers and won millions. I also realize that your string of birthday numbers has EXACTLY the same chance of being drawn as any of the other 25,827,165 possible combinations. It's true, each combination has the same chance of being drawn. Yet, are you willing to cut out almost 97% of your possible winning chances? I am not ready to quit just about all of the possible winning combinations only to use sentimental choices. My goal is to play smarter than that.