Sure you can easily stroll into just about any store and buy a lottery ticket. It’s just that easy. That’s just as it should be. Playing the lottery may be a fun and easy diversion with the opportunity of a significant payoff. You, conversely, are a more serious player. The truth that you are 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 locate a better way to play the lottery within an intelligent manner. Here is a list of 10 too common mistakes that official lottery players make. Each and every one of these items may be costing you ticket money, time, frustration, and perhaps 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 really need to win? What amount of winnings would make an impact on your life? Here in Texas we have many different choices. You may play a big multi-state game like Mega-Millions with HUGE multi-million dollar payoffs though 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 population of the U.S.A.

Then again the Texas Two-Step lottery prize begins at $200,000 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 one other way you would have to buy 95 Mega-Millions tickets to have the same odds of winning with one Texas Two-Step ticket.

Within 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, as well as 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’ve got chosen according to 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.

Whenever 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 to numbers from a pool of 1 to 31. Being an example of the problem inside this method think about this. In the Texas Lotto game 6 numbers are drawn from a pool of 54 numbers. 54 numbers give you a whopping 25,827,165 possible combinations! When you choose from the pool of numbers ranging from 1 to 31, how many combinations do you think there are actually available? You’ll find a measly little 736,281. Think about that. When 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 folks that 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. However, are you willing to cut out almost 97% of your possible winning chances? I am not prepared to give up virtually all of the possible winning combinations simply to use sentimental choices. My goal is to play smarter than that.