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By emailWays to Increase Your “Expected Return” in the Lottery
“Expected return” is a term used in gambling, probability theory, economics and finance to reflect the worth of an investment or gamble: you can think of it as, “What is the cost of my risk versus what are the chances and possible amount of a win?” For those of you into maths, it can be expressed as:
Amount won by winning x probability of winning + (amount won by losing x probability of losing)
Here are three ways you can INCREASE your expected return in the lottery:
• Play in rollover draws;
• Purchase more tickets which contain different numbers;
• Try to pick unpopular numbers (or use numbers chosen at random), because when people pick numbers, they tend to use special dates, leaving numbers above 31 under-selected. This is so that when you win, you are more likely to be the unique winner, which bumps up the “amount won by winning” part of the equation.
Guess what? By playing in an e-lottery syndicate, you are already maximizing all three of these suggested strategies! For instance, tonight is a massive £92 million (€113.5 million) EuroMillions rollover draw and this is its sixth rollover week; when you join an e-lottery syndicate, your common numbers are assigned at random; and you have a share in additional entries with different numbers — in fact, a lot more entries than you could buy yourself with £5 a week!
Although your “expected return” from the jackpot is less because you have to share it with your syndicate members, this is counter-balanced by the fact that e-lottery syndicates pay out MUCH MORE THAN EXPECTED on almost all of the other prize tiers, because your syndicate wins on multiple lines. Most important of all, your e-lottery syndicate has a much better chance of winning the jackpot and ANY cash prize due to its guaranteed matched numbers.
LOG IN TO YOUR PLAYER’S BACK OFFICE BEFORE 6PM UK TIME on the night of any draw to play in that draw the Smarter Way!
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