The Philosophical Science of Winning: Gambling, Lottery, Lotto
Systems and Software: Free, Pricey, Priceless

By Ion Saliu
Founder of Lottery Mathematics, Founder of Gambling Mathematics

Posted on July 29, 2000; final update Notvember 2007 (paid membership required).

• As much as I bashed that delusional individual who signed as “Chip Casher Gambler”, well, well… One of his statements makes sense to me now:

• “… In 2 posts I have given you the road to 1) put the casinos out of business and 2) make you the superstar of mathematical certainty. And imagine the adulation you will receive for offering "dozens" of gambling systems for $50. You are certain to be a candidate for sainthood…”

I do not know who “Chip Casher” is and I have not influenced him in any away whatsoever to post on my message board. It does make more sense, however, to sell gambling (lottery included) systems for higher prices to fewer users. In most other software areas, the more a company sells, the more it grows and prospers. Just think of Microsoft in this regard.

• On the other hand, in the lottery-gambling field, the more you sell the more you… compete against yourself; the more you hurt yourself as a player! I just mention the pick-3 lottery. Many lottery commissions realized that the pick-3 game is far more prone to computer breaking. Since there are only 1000 combinations, it is far easier for computer software to offer ways to higher winning probabilities. Accordingly, some lotteries implemented a pari-mutuel payoff system.
• Why should one contribute to making his/her payoffs lower? The same is valid of my touting an optimized 3if6 49-number lotto wheel. It did hit several 5 winners in lotteries around the world. It will, for sure, hit a jackpot in some lotto 6-49 game. I touted also how my software can higher a lot the winning probability by using my software dynamically (i.e. running WHEEL-6 a hundred times in a row, before running it for playing combinations). Obviously, the lottery officials are not idiots. If they realize that computer software can be a real tool to beat the odds, they would think of counter-measures.

• Casino gambling falls in the same category. Nevada knows it better: They put you in jail if you bring a computer in a casino! Why did I sell my roulette system for so low? It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it does in one respect. I had the opportunity to check my strategy in real-life, by several players, under different circumstances. Of course, I could have done it myself, in my home, analyzing casino data.
• Unfortunately, only a few casinos publish the results of their roulette spins. Hey, they are smart! They realize the computers can beat them “bankruptcy” badly! Just think of this. The lotteries have a monstrous 50% house edge, and they can still be beaten! The casinos have no more than 5.26% house edge (10 times more angelic)! Selling my casino strategies to many players could have attracted drastic changes in the casino rules. Then, what? You can imagine the reaction of my customers after the rules had changed… Besides, my playing would have been negatively affected as well…

I have friends who disliked what I have done with my gambling and lottery software. One of them used to exchange extensively lottery ideas with me. In most cases, his ideas were mathematically solid. He stopped cooperating with me ever since the inception of my BBS. Other “dislikers” of my systems/software have been either sour competitors, or sour users of my software. I want to tell you about two of them.

There was an old gentleman who always knew if my lottery software was available to others. He would send me a lot of questions like this: “Is your software still available? When will you release a new version?” His envelopes were annoyingly handwritten: Wavy block capitals! He would also drop a $1 bill inside the envelope sometimes! Once he even dropped a $5 bill! Who knows how much money I threw away! After a while, his wavy-addressed envelopes made me so mad that I threw them away at the post office!

Another guy, probably a competitor, used to call me from New York very frequently. Once I told him I was no longer in the lottery software business. He just said “Good!” and I have never heard from him again. If he calls me now, he meets my answering machine. I'm sure he curses me (but I curse back probably better than anybody else in this world…in several languages…) Both guys were happy, for sure, when I was quiet in the lottery software world…

I had expected quite a few visitors to this BBS would make contributions on using LotWon. As you have noticed, none has ever made a useful contribution. Probably none will ever make a useful contribution. On the other hand, I do receive, in private emails, some very, very interesting and worthy ideas in the probability area!

• I made up my mind. There will be no more of free lottery software from me. There will be no more tips on setting strategies in conjunction with my lottery software. I will republish, however, my roulette page (saliu.com/Roulette.htm), without selling anything. The page presented the only free winning roulette strategy you'll find anywhere. I presented it first in the newsgroups. Every savvy Internet user can find it, and many do find it by searching the newsgroups. Therefore, it makes no sense to keep it “secret” after I made it public!
• Anything else from me would have to be for a fee that makes sense. That is, a high fee, so high that it doesn't hurt my market, or my interests. There must be a limited number of customers. The fee must be high enough that it provides me with real revenue. It is high enough that only attracts the pros, and discourages all amateurs. The pros have never bothered me with low-level, time-wasting questions.

What would be the purpose of showing you how I would play a strategy such as PR_1 = 100 in Pennsylvania lottery? To get a lower payoff?! What would be the purpose of showing you how to play roulette in Atlantic City? To get the casinos change the rules drastically? They already scare the players who open a notebook and write down the roulette spins. Moreover, the casinos do not want to turn on the marquees (electronic displays) at quite a few roulette tables. That's because I presented a potent roulette system correlated to the Birthday Paradox (read the main roulette strategy systems software page).

The morale is one can never stop learning. You can learn even from someone you have strong reasons to believe is an idiot. Better still, don't label anybody “idiot”. Or, if you wish, each and every one of us falls in one “idiot” category or another.

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