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The Probability Game. How To Win The Lottery
Statistics demonstrate to us all a lot of things that can be both beneficial and unusable for a lot of reasons. There’s countless good cases of attention-grabbing truths and statistical analysis which never appear to be particularly applicable to individual’s everyday lifestyles. Do you fully understand, as an example, that in ’85 the standard National Aeronautics and Space Administration numerical probability for a crash to happen to a NASA space shuttle was 100,000 to 1. Following the space shuttle Challenger devastation it was changed to one-hundred to one!
So picture the amazement of people looking on the time when Danny Leake, an amateur golfer, accomplished an unbelievable ‘hole in one’ in the same golf hole 2 days in a row while playing at a golfing event in The Lone Star State. This is something that is so extremely uncommon that the chances of it taking place have never been estimated. Pity such a serendipitous guy did not play the lotto that day instead!
What would you think of a guy who earned a regular working man’s wage but spent most of it on lottery tickets? Well there is a New York man who does just that.Ray Otero foolishly believes that buy ploughing his money into lottery tickets he is increasing his chances of winning a jackpot prize with each purchase (by sheer number of tickets).
Of course what Mr. Otero fails to realise is that statistically you have no better chance of winning the jackpot with 500 tickets than you do with 1 when the numbers on the tickets are chosen randomly!
Statistics can tell us some depressing things. For example, if someone purchases a UK lottery ticket on a Monday, for a weekend draw, they are more likely to be dead when the draw takes place than they are of winning the jackpot prize!
You see unfortunately the odds of winning the jackpot ion such a draw are fourteen million to one while the odds of being dead are much lower. In fact you even have a better chance of becoming a saint because the odds are only killed by lightning are roughly 2650000 to 1!These low odds apply to every ticket you buy. Therefore ray Otero’s approach does not increase his odds of winning a top prize!
Take heart though because you can do certain things that dramatically increase the odds of you winning a huge lottery prize and they don’t require you to spend a fortune doing it! Lottery wheeling, for example, is a great way to increase your chances of winning a top prize on the lottery.
When you wheel and extra number in your pick of 6, so that you pick 7 numbers instead and then “wheel” so that all numbers end up on a ticket together two things happen. Wheeling systems require you to invest more money in the lottery, because you must buy more tickets, but by doing so, and by doing it in a mathematically precise manner, you increase your chances of winning the lottery jackpot.
When you wheel 7 numbers instead of 6 you go from a 14 million to 1 chance of winning the lottery to half a million to 1 – just by adding an extra number and the price of the tickets only adds up to £28!
So, if Mr. Otero had only played a 6 from 49, or similar type of lottery, and wheeled his numbers he may well be a very wealthy man by now.
Learn to play Texas Hold'Em in 60 seconds (Page 1 of 2)
Texas Hold’Em is a simple game but starting playing it online can be difficult for newbies.
You have always to learn some rules just to be sure not to cut a poor figure in fron of the green table and you have also to choose the right virtual place where to play among the thousands and thousands of internet sites that offer online gaming.
I chose to describe the poker room you can find on Popyeah.com, and try to teach you some quick rules that you can apply to become Texas Hold’Em God! Popyeah.com is a very popular multiplayer online game site and it is really well done. You can find there a wide online gaming community and many many opponents to play with in one of the 100 (and more) games with high quality graphics and sound.
You can save your game scores and climb up rankings and charts; you can join tournaments playing against the other players and you can become a part of a great community. What I want to underline is that Popyeah.com is NOT and online casino and you can’t win real money. There you can play the real SPORTING POKER for fun and for tasting the challenge. Besides, and I can say this is really a good thing, on Popyeah you can play for free, and you can also insert your personal profile, upload your photos, manage your personal blog, create your friends list and communicate with many other people. All of our games have a built-in chat sub-system that enables real-time communication between players while they play. Players can also talk each other with Skype during gameplay.
And now let’s go to the rules…
Texas Hold’Em Poker is a variation of poker in which each player receives two cards and then uses a combination of those two cards and the five community cards to form a hand. The player with the best hand wins.
Below is a ranking from worst to best of the types of poker hands.
ONE PAIR – happens when a player has two figures of the same value in his hand, for example two kings, two tens, two aces etc.
TWO PAIRS – happens when a player has a pair of the same figures twice, for example two kings and two aces, two thirds and two tens etc.
THREE OF A KIND – as the name says, it happens when a player has three cards of the same value, for example three aces.
STRAIGHT – five cards (with different suits) which are grouped one after the other, for example 7,8,9,10,J.
FLUSH – five cards with the same suit, for example A,J,10,7,2.
FULL HOUSE – a set of PAIR and THREE OF A KIND, which means for example K,K,A,A,A.
FOUR OF A KIND – as the name says, it happens when a player has four cards of the same value, for example four kings or four aces and so on.
STRAIGHT FLUSH – the strongest set in game. It is five cards in the same suit which are grouped one after another, for example A,K,D,J,10 of spades. At the start of the game, two cards are dealt to every player. This is followed by the first round of betting among the players. All bets go into a pot. Next, the dealer reveals three community cards. This is followed by a second round of betting. Then a fourth community card is revealed, followed by another round of betting. Finally, the fifth community card is revealed and there is one final round of betting. After the final round of betting, the player with the best five card set wins the pot.