Many people, if not most, would not think to include gambling a legitimate subject in financial planning. However, with millions of people involved in all sorts of gaming, and billions of pounds, dollars, and euros at stake, why not? Some people gamble only for entertainment; but what if you want to gamble to actually produce income?

Lotto is one of the most popular forms of games of chance. Although no one has yet perfected the technique or the formula to second guess the winning combination, many manage to make decent earnings by guessing the probable winning combinations. Some rely on math, some on intuition. The best opportunity you have of cracking the winning combination depends on how you use the most vital ingredient required for every day living – commonsense.

Instead of focusing on expensive strategies that use random combinations, you should focus on possible winning combinations. You can achieve this just by categorizing winning combinations. If you determine, based on historical data, that a future jackpot will have more numbers from 1 to 9, then you should have combination of numbers that will include at least four numbers from 1 to 9. This way you will not have to buy inflated numbers of tickets to increase your odds of hitting the big prize. By not buying too many tickets, not only do you save money, but you also have enough funds to play another day (which might prove to be your lucky day).

Playing in a syndicate can also be a good idea, but remember — you have to share your prize money with all the members of the syndicate and this means you still have to keep your job and report back to office on the following Monday. Categorizing numbers does not require a lot of brains. Basically what you do is target a group of numbers and try out different combinations. For example, if you have deduced that 1 to 9 may be the combination that you need to focus on, then your combination should be 1,4,6,9,26,30 or 1,2,5,7,36,39 or 1,3,8,11,29,45. Now in these numbers you will note that your focus is on numbers from 1 to 9, not the other numbers which have an outside chance of being drawn. With this system you may not necessarily hit the jackpot but you will surely win decent sums of money to finance your future games, and if Lady Luck does happen to smile on you, you can forget going to work on the following Monday.

The commonsense approach requires that you play knowledgeably. If you are targeting the group from 1 to 9 it would be utterly foolish to draw four numbers in a series like 1,2,3,4 or 6,7,8,9 as the first four numbers; by doing this your chances of hitting the jackpot or any small prize become zero. This means you have lost the game even before the winning numbers are drawn. This amounts to literally throwing away your hard-earned cash.

So, the secret to winning lotto? Well, the best strategy is to zero in on the most probable winning combinations and then use common sense to arrive at the combination of six numbers. If you follow this practice each and every time you play, your chances of hitting the jackpot go up dramatically. If you are going to gamble, do so intelligently, and play to win.

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