Sure you can readily stroll into just about any store and buy a official lottery ticket. It’s just that easy. That is just as it should be. Playing the lottery can be a fun and easy diversion with the chance of a serious payoff. You, however, are a more serious player. The truth that you are reading this shows that. You are motivated enough to wade through more information to learn how to cut out the bad habits and practices and find a better way to play the lottery within an intelligent manner. Here is a list of 10 too common mistakes that lottery players make. Each and every one of these items could be costing you ticket money, time, frustration, and possibly even millions of dollars. Read them, take them to heart, and then put them into practice.

Playing the Wrong Lottery Games

Have you ever really considered which games you play and why? The amount of money do you need to win? What quantity of winnings would make an impact on your life? Here in Texas we have numerous different choices. You can play a large multi-state game like Mega-Millions with HUGE multi-million dollar payoffs although the unfortunate odds of only 1 chance in 175,711,536 of taking home the jackpot! Wow, that’s 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 only 1 in 1,832,600! By switching from the Mega-Millions game to the Texas Two-Step you increase your chance of winning a

prize by over 95 times! Put yet another way you might have to buy 95 Mega-Millions tickets to have 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 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

Believe me, I know. You have a series of numbers that you have chosen determined by your children’s birthdays and the day you got married and also 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. Basically you are restricted to numbers from a pool of 1 to 31. As being an example of the problem in this method think about 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 pick from the pool of numbers ranging from 1 to 31, how many combinations do you think you’ll find to select from? There are actually a measly little 736,281. Think of 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’s insane.

I know, you read about several individuals who chose birthday numbers and won millions. I also understand that your string of birthday numbers has EXACTLY the exact 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 ready to cut out almost 97% of your possible winning chances? I am not prepared to give up nearly all of the possible winning combinations only to use sentimental choices. My goal is to play smarter than that.