Hey Ridge Runner~~

Looks like it wasn't a QP. 

Congrats to the winner!!

I disagree.. has to be a quick pic. either its a Qp or he has 18 other 2nd tier prize winners....

Well, don't tell me, call Ripley's.

No, I don't think so.

When I play a system that uses all bonus balls, I most definitely do NOT use the same "first 5" numbers on each ticket.  I use an abbreviated wheel.  Here's an excellent wheel for Hot Lotto.  It's a 2 if 2 of 19 wheel that is highly balanced, using each of the 19 numbers you choose 5 times each.  It has 19 lines, making it perfect for playing each bonus number once.

You would use all bonus numbers so that you are guaranteed to have a bonus number winner in your set of tickets, and hopefully you have some "first 5" matches to go along with it.  Also, if you happen to match all 5 numbers on one ticket, it ensures that you have at least a pretty good chance of winning the jackpot too. 

In the case of Hot Lotto, if you match the 5 five numbers, the strategy gives you a 1-in-19 shot at winning the jackpot.

I love this story...

A financial advisor buying a how to win the lottery book.

Makes me wonder about the advice given to his clients and what they think after hearing what he was doing. He's telling everybody how to be responsible in allocating their funds and how to invest and save responsibly while he's playing the lottery. I love it.   

This is really wild.

Ha, Ha... or the Guiness Book Of World Records....

Ridge

If you think about it, it might just be a really good way to judge the true state of our economy.  Another thought

is that he might be needing to shore up some of the accounts he manages.  I wonder if there is any connection

between high risk capital and lottery tickets as they both seem to have the same rules, "Don't invest more then

you can afford to lose." 

RL

From the OP:

He and his wife started playing Hot Lotto about three months ago after reading a book that claimed to have the secrets to winning the lottery. He followed the recommendations, which included buying 19 plays for each drawing to cover all the Hot Ball options.

But he said he was beginning to doubt the book's advice just before he won.

"We were just getting to the point where I said, "You know, this just isn't worth it. I don't think I am going to do this anymore. But we played one more time and...it's kind of nice," he said.

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Since he said he was just about to give up and it mentions playing 19 plays per drawing it sounds like it might have been Lustig's book, which has been reviewed here on LP.

Whether the winning combo was a QP or not, or birthdays, or ages, or hot and cold numbers, etc..ad nauseum, the fact that a combo he played was the combo drawn still comes down to luck.

Ut oh.

Whether it's Lustig's book or someone else's people will post and ask if anyone has read it and can they tell them what it says.

While the book sales will definitley increase it was also become apparent that a lot of people not only want the information to beat the house but to beat the one with the information out of the money for it, too.

I don't think that's the book, because they are playing a relatively small number of picks (19) and Lustig says you have to play as much as you can afford -- not specific strategies like "play all the bonus numbers".

And of course there is luck involved.  A great deal of it.  But the strategy they played certainly helped them as well.

Whether the winning combo was a QP or not, or birthdays, or ages, or hot and cold numbers, etc..ad nauseum, the fact that a combo he played was the combo drawn still comes down to luck.

And what is Luck. hmmm

L=laboring U=under C=correct K=knowledge

And at the time he was laboring under correct knowledge.  It was spot on.  C'mon Coin Toss, luck adds up to a lot of things. 

Congratulations to him!

I think he's been lurking on lottery post, and read "win with magic" by sully & Harve$t Moon

Congrats to the Dawsons, Enjoy.

I'm not familiar with Hot Lotto.

Is it possible to select all your bonus balls and get the other numbers by Quick Pick?

It depends on what the individual state's lottery terminals allow.  (That goes for all games, not just Hot Lotto.)  Some states have Quick Pick all-or-nothing options, and others allow you to QP just the bonus or the first five numbers.

OK, thanks. It'd be interesting to know exactly what he did.

Forget the financial advisers ......................

..................... I'm playing the Lottery !!!!!!!!!!

I use to do something like that with Powerball. I would purchase all the powerball numbers 1 - 40(Before the changed it) and would play quick picks for 20 tickets and mark all the other tickets randomly. The most I won at once was $100 . I spent a ton of money and didnt even get close to the jackpot. I believe a stratgey like that will work with a lottery that doesnt have a  lot of digits which explains why and how this guy won. If he is a financial advisory the last thing he should do is gamble his winnings in the stock market. I would close shop and run for the hills...

Congrats to the winner........

I wonder if it was How to Win the Lottery or if the book was How to Win Games of Chance by Kenneth Dickkerson.  I wish he would have specified.  or was it Wheeling that he used?  Geeeze!

Based on the fact they played every bonus number, I strongly suspect it was a wheel.  (See my previous post near the start of this thread.)

God help anyone using something written by Dickkerson.  Several screws loose with that guy.

Maybe since he cracked the code one time he will invest all of his winnings in more tickets.  LOL

In regards to Dickkerson, I saw him in the documentary "Lucky" (about lotteries, lottery players, etc. ) & I could not agree with you more.

WOW! They thought about how they would play,  they played more than one Quick Pick ticket and WON big.  Imagine that.............  Release the pigs!

Bet on bacon!

Tenaj,

And sometimes things are due to nothing but just luck.

Say you're at a baseball game and get up to go to the concession stand or something and right after you do the batters hits a line drive foul ball that would have really injured you.

Not much planning or correct knowledge in that, such things just happen that way.

Take the guy in Iowa, he was about to give up and decided to play one more time. Not luck?

First of all , i want to say congrads to Larry Dawson and his family from Webster City ia. for winning the Hot Lotto jackpot.   I only wish it had been me that won becoz my family is going thru alot of troubles and i could have helped them so much with this win.   

I do want to say that it is really strange how Webster City ia.  has been so lucky lately.   I have found out that the lottery does control where the  big winning scratch off tickets will go to.   Webster City has had alot of big wins lately,   the last 3 or so months , they have had   1 -  1 million dollar winner,   1-  100,000 winner and a 25, 0000  winner.   and now the big Hot Lotto winner of over 9 million !    Did you know that 3 of these wins were at a dif Docs stop in webster city,  well its true .   I  think that if the hot lotto wins are sometimes controlled to make head lines in the news ,  than that is not fair to the rest of us !   

                                           AGAIN,   I'M HAPPY FOR YOU LARRY DAWSON AND YOUR FAMILY,  I HOPE YOU WILL DO SOME GOOD THINGS WITH THIS MONEY AND I'M SURE YOU WILL.  GOD BLESS !       jOHN-   jonstrue2u

I need to win this Powerball wednesday!!!

He's not your average financial advisor.

 Most fa's would advise against even playing the lotto, much less buying a book on how to win.

His win doesn't validate any published system...by buying all of the +1 Hot Lotto numbers, he merely gave himself "a chance" to win something regardless which 5 numbers were drawn.  So I wouldn't rush out to buy any book just because he won.  I have always thought that if I win a jackpot, I would employ such a strategy for every drawing with the goal of winning a lot of 2nd tier prize money...this way I would be able to "anonymously" blessed certain people without running afoul of Uncle Sam...who is most assuredly looking to grab every penny it can to fund all those entitlement programs. 

Also, I think Iowa and Indiana were two states that allowed one to even select just a few "lucky" numbers in the 5+1 field and then have the computer fill in the rest whereas I think most only give one the option of either QP the entire 5 number field and/or the +1 field.  So for those who have 1, 2, or even just 3 "must play numbers", they could fill those in and the computer would fill in the rest.  I am not certain if this is still the case after the Powerball/MegaMillions availability in more states (some states changed aspects of their associated games like Illinois now offers Megaplier for MegaMillions) and I no longer make the drive to Indiana, Wisconsin, or Iowa to play Powerball since I can do that in Illinois...so I don't know what the case is there in Iowa.  Perhaps some Iowans can chime in on the specifics of the Hot Lotto/Powerball playing selection options.

Don't know about Iowa but in Idaho you can QP the 5 white balls, and separately QP the bonus ball.

Jimmy

Heres my surmize, He mosey's down to the ATM machine, gots him sum monee and was a fixin to buy milk and gas at the piggley wiggleys when shucks he had him a twenty dollar bill stuck in his ratty wallet, he dun takes it in, says hmmph, reckon I'll play my last electric bill numbers and BAM! He wins! ...dats my story and I like it :)

I'd love a partial QP box.  Whatever numbers aren't selected would be QPs.  I'd honestly prefer that to an expensive key wheel, so if I liked to numbers and a mega ball, I could QP the other 3 5 times or something.  Although I guess I could find something for that online.

Well I'm a takin a shine to thet story mah own self, dagnabit!

Yes, it was luck, Coin Toss, but I believe that there were things he had done to get there.

Anytime you can insert "piggly wiggly" into a conversation it has to put a smile on your face.  As a boy in Oklahoma when I went to visit my grandma the first thing I would ask was "Can we go to piggly wiggly?"

Jimmy

I agree Jimmy, I had a similar experience.

Doesnt anyone think its weird that in the last 3 months ,   there has been  4 different wins in the lottery in webster City ia   where the hot lotto jackpot was won ?   First there was a  1 million dollar winner there , then  a 100, 000  winner on a scratch off winner  and 3 days after that there was a 25,000 winner on a scratch off ticket and now the hot lotto was won in this same town of webster city , ia. population of a little over 8,000 ppl.    I have heard from some good sources that the lottery knows where the big scratch off winning tickets will be sent to dif stores . Doesnt anyone think that big headlines will make more lottery sales?  Let me know what you all think.  Thanks,  jonstrue2u

Hi rdgrnr.....

I was thinking the same thing....

Also...in whatching the video, the decimal point behind the first "9" looks so faint

that the jackpot amount looks like it could read $909 Million (....imagine that jackpot!)

LOL!!!.....I don't even know who Dickkerson is but based on you comment...I don't think I want to!

Congratulations Larry Dawson on your Iowa Hot Lotto sole jackpot win!

I wonder if Larry will be claiming the monies as a one-time, lump sum payment option.

If claiming as lump-sum, I wonder if Larry will be claiming the approximate $3.38 million net under: his name only, a trust name, his business' name, or a combo of names (and at what percentage split each; as each would be taxed at a different fed and state tax rate ... though I don't know what each of those would be). However, I don't know if a mere financial planner would be savy enough to do so, perhaps only a tax lawyer would be savy enough to do a few claiming divisions in order to lower the tax burden, etc..

In Florida our Powerball playslips allow us to do that to. I usually pick my own powerball number and let the computer pick the 5 numbers. I always think even if I don't match the powerball I may win $200,000 on the quick pick numbers. Congrats to Larry Dawson on a great win.

Actually, I don't think it's any weirder than the Miracle Mile in Fond du Lac Wisconsin having their abundance of winners.

Anomalies and happenstance. All normal and to be expected from time to time.

Hey Perfecttiming,

You must be in the settled territories; we cain't watch videos back up in here cuz we cain't git nuthin but dialup.

I would be willing to bet that Larry Dawson advised his customers they would be better off investing $38 per week in anything other than a lottery game.

I am taking my advice and playing Powerball tonite !!!!!!!!!

Maybe the author is Gail Howard.

Good luck!! I don't have any PB in tonight but i've got my old faithful FLa Lottery # in.  I hope an LP family member wins big tonight!!

That $9 million dollar jackpot was meant for me!.Good karma got the wrong Larry!.Lol. 

Every night at 9 pm is the dead line for buying super cash lottery tickets. At that time the lottery office can go through the computer system and learn what combination of numbers hasn't been sellected or the least amount of winning combination of numbers hasn't been sellected, and just coinsedentally that combination of numbers comes up in the draw. I've been playing twenty dollars a night. Thats 40 lines of 6 numbers ever since super cash started over twenty years ago. Every morning I check all my numbers and win nothing, I start to smell fish. This Wisconsin lottery system is getting rich on suckers like me, who used to believe this is all played fair and square. Sorry, but my skeptism is overwhelming me.

"He followed the recommendations, which included buying 19 plays for each drawing to cover all the Hot Ball options."

When I first read this, I thought about the 3 if 4 of 14 numbers wheel with 19 combos that I used many times. But after seeing your suggestion, I believe you nailed it.

That's $43,800.00 over six years.

Have you been playing the same numbers all that time?

$20 a night for over 20 years. $20 x 7 nights a week x 52 weeks x 20 years = $145,600. And I thought I spend too much playing $30 a week.

Perhaps you should consider Gamblers Anonymous?

Whoops, I only figgered for 6 years.  This is even worser!

Hi, It was Richard Lustig's book "Learn How to Increase your Chances to Win the Lottery"

Mr. Larry Dawson even called Lustig to thank him, its all here in this article. I was so shock to know it was his book.

here is the link to the article 

htt://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110510/NEWS10/105100348/1001/

Hi, It was Richard Lustig's book "Learn How to Increase your Chances to Win the Lottery"

Mr. Dupree even called Lustig to thank him, its all here in this article. I was so shock to know it was his book.

here is the link to the article 

htt://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110510/NEWS10/105100348/1001/

Thank you Diamon Life, have a great day.