who does the lotto?

LegacyUser

i've only played on the odd ocasion, but i think i'm gonna start playing every week.

any long time players on here? ever win anything?

The_Goose

Me me i won 20 spuid once, thats as big it gets for me.

blahblah06

Dont do the lotto but i do the bookies and win a fair bit. for 3 numbers for 1 euro its 476 euro back. much better odds. i win say 1 every two months

LegacyUser

blahblah06 wrote:

Dont do the lotto but i do the bookies and win a fair bit. for 3 numbers for 1 euro its 476 euro back. much better odds. i win say 1 every two months

what's the catch?

if you get 6 numbers, do they pay out less than the lotto jackpot?

blahblah06

odds for the bookies are

5 numbers 50000/1
4 numbers 4500/1
3 numbers 475/1
2 numbers 50/1
1 number 11/2

I do my numbers out of 6 as u get better odds.

whiskeyman

blahblah06 wrote:

odds for the bookies are

5 numbers 50000/1
4 numbers 4500/1
3 numbers 475/1
2 numbers 50/1
1 number 11/2

I do my numbers out of 6 as u get better odds.

Is there a "lotto plus" or is it just based on the main draw?
I had 3 numbers and won nowt this weekend
Most I ever won was €200 having 5 numbers on a Lotto plus draw.

LegacyUser

blahblah06 wrote:

odds for the bookies are

5 numbers 50000/1
4 numbers 4500/1
3 numbers 475/1
2 numbers 50/1
1 number 11/2

I do my numbers out of 6 as u get better odds.

i'm looking on the paddypower site, ye, they look like much better odds allright.

i see there are other countries in there too, would you recomend any of them, or stick to the irish lotto?

http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=showpage&page=chooselottery.html

blahblah06

You can do the 3 draws. What i do is my 3 numbers out of 6. 3 draws.

then let the money roll.

blahblah06

Hi Paper. Ive done the other draws but just do the irish lotto. i mean why not stick 2 euro on it. remeber if u are doing te 3 draws it will cost you 3 euro. 1 euro each draw. my numbers are 2,19,21 fecking 1,19,21 came out on sat LOL

LegacyUser

cool, thanks for info.

sounds like a plan

whiskeyman

Crikey - screw lotto. I'm goin on the bookies from now on!

Actually, wait a min...just checked paddypower.
You have to predetermine how many number you think you'll get.
It's not like you pick your six and hope you'll get something - you have to decide to put money or 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.
think I'll hold off and hope I win a scratch card then spin the wheel...

blahblah06

LMFAO. I know the lotto sucks. at least the bookies is only 3 numbers. just make sure use do it out of 6 lads

Khannie

My wife's gotten 5 numbers in the main draw 3 times now. She's either incredibly lucky and we're gonna live in luxury, or she's cursed.

Pighead

My preferred game is EuroMillions. I like it because the jackpot is huge and it feels like a political action -- a vote with my euros that I support the European Union.

In EuroMillions you pick five numbers from one to fifty and two numbers from one to nine. If you match all seven, fifty to 150 million euro. I don't pick my numbers though, for one of my rules regarding the lottery is "Pighead Do Not Fall Into A Pattern". I can imagine no worse financial tragedy than playing the same numbers every week and forgetting to buy a ticket or going on vacation when the "lucky" numbers come up.Jeekers i'd be distraught.There would probably even be tears.

I check the box that commands the computer to pick numbers for me when I buy a ticket and in doing so quite possibly save my sanity. I also estimate this gives me a mildly better chance of actually winning and not being forced to share the jackpot.
No offence lads but its a fact that if you pick your own numbers, Pighead has a better chance of winning than you do.While every sequence of numbers is equally likely to win, people are not equally likely to pick lots of consecutive numbers, 32, 33, 34, 35, for example -- but these are just as likely to win. A casual perusal of the National Lotto history shows that weeks where some of the numbers are consecutive are less likely to have jackpot winners, so the money rolls over to the next week. Also, many people use birthdays or anniversaries as lucky numbers, meaning that 31 and under are overrepresented. I also thing it's fair to guess that many people have 7 as one of their numbers, but not many people pick 13.
Pighead-Always one step ahead of the posse

LegacyUser

blahblah06 wrote:

LMFAO. I know the lotto sucks. at least the bookies is only 3 numbers. just make sure use do it out of 6 lads

ok, just placed a €1 bet on each draw, do they email you your numbers, fekin gmail down again!

hang on, found em on the site.

blahblah06

Good luck mate. You will click sometime. If you do 2,19,21 you will win sooner or l8r believe me

LegacyUser

blahblah06 wrote:

Good luck mate. You will click sometime. If you do 2,19,21 you will win sooner or l8r believe me

i'm takin a leaf out of pigheads book and just using quick pick

blahblah06

Paper you shouldnt do quickpicks mate. the chances of them different numbers coming up is very slim. I would suggest you pick your own numbers and stick to them. use www.lotto.ie to see the most frequent numbers that are pulled out and how man times they came out

Pighead

My other rule with regards to the lottery is Thou Shalt Not Buy A Lottery Ticket For Anyone Else Under Any Circumstances. Ever. I love my family and am fond of my friends, but certainly not fond enough to give them an opportunity at unknown riches that could otherwise be mine.I'd start weeping if i found out i'd bought the winning ticket for someone else.Shallow-Yes,Selfish-Of course,Wily old fox-indeed

Ruffty^

"Gambl0r" has yee in his neon claws!

Culchie

I used to do the lotto, until I started playing poker and learning all about the the odds of a flush hitting, drawing to a straight etc....

In poker you play other players, so to a large extent your success is inyour own hands, with a slice of luck.
If the odds don't make sense, you don't call the bet.

Lotto is all luck. The odds don't make sense.

In the poker fraternity lotto is known as "a tax on stupidity".

LegacyUser

Pighead wrote:

My other rule with regards to the lottery is Thou Shalt Not Buy A Lottery Ticket For Anyone Else Under Any Circumstances. Ever. I love my family and am fond of my friends, but certainly not fond enough to give them an opportunity at unknown riches that could otherwise be mine.I'd start weeping if i found out i'd bought the winning ticket for someone else.Shallow-Yes,Selfish-Of course,Wily old fox-indeed

agree, was getting a euromillions ticket a while back, dude in work said could i get him one too, was only after i bought the 2 tickets did i realise the potential for crapola.

luckly we were both unlucky.

LegacyUser

Culchie wrote:

I used to do the lotto, until I started playing poker and learning all about the the odds of a flush hitting, drawing to a straight etc....

In poker you play other players, so to a large extent your success is inyour own hands, with a slice of luck.
If the odds don't make sense, you don't call the bet.

Lotto is all luck. The odds don't make sense.

In the poker fraternity lotto is known as "a tax on stupidity".

do you play online, i wouldn't have a clue.

i'd just see the loto as a bit of fun, couple of quid a week.

Culchie

Yes I play on-line.

I was the same, a couple of quid a week for 10 years, never won more than a tenner or so.

There's a poker forum here
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=416

LegacyUser

Culchie wrote:

Yes I play on-line.

I was the same, a couple of quid a week for 10 years, never won more than a tenner or so.

There's a poker forum here
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=416

i've poped by the poker forum on a few occasions, might give it a go at some stage.

how long are you playing?

Stephen

blahblah06 wrote:

Paper you shouldnt do quickpicks mate. the chances of them different numbers coming up is very slim. I would suggest you pick your own numbers and stick to them. use www.lotto.ie to see the most frequent numbers that are pulled out and how man times they came out

Every combination of numbers has equal probability of coming out in each draw. It doesn't matter if you pick the same numbers every week, since the outcome of one draw has no effect on the outcome of any other draw, every combination is equiprobable in every draw.
Therefore you're just as likely to win with a quickpick.

Anyone who's done some statistics and the like in school/college knows this.

AndyWarhol

Stephen wrote:

Every combination of numbers has equal probability of coming out in each draw. It doesn't matter if you pick the same numbers every week, since the outcome of one draw has no effect on the outcome of any other draw, every combination is equiprobable in every draw.
Therefore you're just as likely to win with a quickpick.

Anyone who's done some statistics and the like in school/college knows this.

Quite right.

You've as much chance of getting 1,2,3,4,5,6 as you do sticking to the same numbers each week.

Nightwish

i do a quickpick whenever I can remember to do it but the bf does the same numbers-not for luck anything but just so he can remember them

Gazza22

Not big into the lotto but i would buy a Euro millions ticket now and again

Calibos

AndyWarhol wrote:

Quite right.

You've as much chance of getting 1,2,3,4,5,6 as you do sticking to the same numbers each week.

Read somewhere that nearly 2000 people play 1,2,3,4,5,6. every draw. "Ah sure what other gob****e would play dose numbers, I'll have de jackpot all to meself!"

Well about 1999 other people mate! I believe this statistic because we have 3 regular lotto players in our shop alone that play that string of numbers.

The irony is that because the jackpot prize fund is ring-fenced from the prize pool for the rest of the winning combinations, eg 10% of the lotto takings might go to the charity fund, 5% of the takings for administration and wages etc 5% to the retailers 40% of the takings is allocated to the Jackpot and the other 40% of the takings is split amongst the match 3,4,5+ bonus etc

Because of this, depending on the size of the jackpot each of those 2000 jackpot winners may come out with less than someone who got only 5 numbers!!

Lex_Diamonds

Do it the odd time when the Euromillions jackpot is huge. Anyone notice that the Irish lotto ajckpot has rolled over a lot more lately? I feel like a conspiracy nut saying this, but you'd swear it was rigged.