Nearly everyone dreams of winning ‘the big one’, the Jackpot and whilst most of the outcome of lottery draws is based on luck, there are things you can do to play smarter and increase odds of winning. Whilst I believe that there are many situations in life where you’re not in total control of the outcome, you can stack the deck in your favour and this article will give you some tips on stacking the odds in your favour when playing the lottery. Understanding the odds of winning the jackpot will help you shave off some of those numbers. There are no sure fire ways of winning the lottery otherwise, people would be winning all the time and prizes would be shared and thus smaller. So what we’re going to talk about now is how to start shaving the tiniest off odds off your chances to win the jackpot and maximise the prize you can get. Some of the ideas following may seem blindingly obvious but you’d be surprised at the amount of people making these mistakes over and over, week after week and wasting money!

1. Make your priority to win money not the jackpot.

Out of the millions if not tens or even hundreds of millions of people who have played the lottery in your country, the actual number of jackpot winners is such a small percentage which immediately puts your chances of winning the big prize at immediate jeopardy. Therefore your goal should be to maximise winning cash prizes. I would be happy winning £10 on £1 a week then spending £100 and not winning anything and I’m sure you would too.

2. Some numbers are just not worth playing.

You might think that it doesn’t matter what numbers you play because it’s all random right? Well to a certain degree it is but remember, we’re trying to shave those odds… think about t his would the odds be better for winning with the numbers 1 3 5 10 22 44 or with the number 1 2 3 4 5 6? I think you’ll agree that the odds of getting the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 drawn on the lottery would be nigh on impossible similarly, choosing all odd or all even numbers also decreases your odds of winning anything. So choosing certain numbers over others is important. Unless you absolutely have to 19 is not the best number to play. Why? Because this is a commonly chosen number as it indicates the first two numbers in most peoples year of births. It won’t help shave the odds but it will help you have a bigger win should your numbers come up! Similarly lucky numbers such as 7, 11 and 13 (or unlucky numbers) would be picked frequently. It could make sense to play the most frequently drawn numbers. numbers.The UK national Lottery have statistics issued on the most frequently drawn numbers at http://www.lottery.co.uk/statistics/

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Many different types of games are played all over the world and each game has its own fan following. Basketball is one of the most popular games among people. In countries like South Africa, Asia, America and Europe, there are huge number of followers of basketball.

Not only basketball, but other sports such as cricket, rugby, football, hockey and tennis are also popular in different parts of the world. Along with these games, the game of basketball betting has also become immensely popular.

Today internet has become so easy to use that about 80% of the surfers reach a website through internet. With this large number of people using the internet to find information and evolution of the web, people can bet easily on any type of game on the internet as well. To play the basketball betting game on the web, all you need to know is the website address and you can start betting immediately by betting on the given numbers.

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You know, I was curious, there seemed to be a pattern emerging in the results of the lottery. Well, there were several really but there was one that caught my eye. There seemed to be a curiously high number of winners who had either won before, or were working in an environment where large amounts of money were commonplace (for instance, staff working at a top 5 star hotel). It seemed to be that there was a mental attitude with these people around money that seemed to increase their chances of landing the big one.

After all, the euro lottery itself has a record payout of £126 MILLION! And that is TAX FREE, where else, other than lotteries, is it possible to go from £0-£126,000,000 in one evening?!

This is what initially perked my interest in seeing if it was possible to influence the outcome of the lottery draw (in a legal and positive way of course). Now I am convinced that positive thinking and an attitude about money that draws it to you rather than pushing it away does indeed exist; but I wanted something a bit more concrete, something that would work…

So, being someone who doesn’t like to be beaten I set about trying to find a way of increasing my chances. Now, I am not a mathematician but I did realize that there was an easy way I could do this. Let me explain…

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Gambling perhaps can be regarded as the second oldest profession known to mankind. Apart from the primitive urges that drove the apes throughout in their evolution routine, an innate desire to take risks and emerge out a champion among their folks was the one quality that curtailed the herd psyche and made Homo sapiens the front runners in the battle of survival. This attraction towards unknown and stuff whose outcome was beyond the controls of physical and mental prowess laid the foundation of our science, religion, mythology, theology and most of the knowledge that went on to become hallmark of our species. After all weren’t Adam and Eve gambling with destiny and order of Lord when they took the bite of the forbidden fruit? Behold! The way their gamble has paid off…

The attraction towards the game of chance is thus something that has been hard-wired in our psyche. The reasons for it can be attributed to our ancestors, right up there in pre-historic era, who were always fighting some odd or the other. Their beating these odds was the key to their survival and that of their race. Cut to the 21st century. Gambling today is a multi-billion dollar industry that thrives on the passion and addiction of a modern day gambler who is always “nearly missing” hitting the ever-elusive jackpot. What compels a hard-nosed business man or an executive with fancy degrees; a testimony to the intelligence and rationale that has guided them in all aspects of their lives; to blow away their hard earned money in a single night in an obscene casino, makes for an interesting study shedding light on the motives and desires of a mind that always lives on the edge.

First of all we should understand that all gamblers do not fit into stereotype images that other non-gamblers have of them. Here we are referring to both the stereotypes that sit on the opposite end of the spectrum. One is of a suave, sophisticated, ladies man, who knows his wine and always has three aces up his sleeve: an image that is reinforced through James Bond like characters that make gambling oh-so-glamorous and sexed up. On the other end exists the poor cousin of this good-looking-devil. He is a social rot -famished, on drugs, stealing, fighting; all for the sake of gambling. He has gotten so addicted to it that his existence is endangered and he is a menace to his society and family. Thankfully our real life gambler is somewhere in the middle of this spectrum.

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