subject: Give Your Lottery Odds A Boost In A Lottery Syndicate [print this page] As the lotto concept has been a part of our social fabric for hundreds of years, so creative minds have been thinking of ways to enhance their lottery odds and to give themselves a real advantage when it comes to playing in those weekly lottery games. The concept of a lotto syndicate emerged and has since become a popular method of playing lotteries; as lottery players realize that there is indeed strength in numbers and that the chances of winning are improved dramatically.
A typical lottery may require you to pick six numbers from 1 to 49 meaning that the odds of actually winning anything are massively stacked against you. However, when you club together with other syndicate members your odds of winning can improve from (for example in the case of the UK weekly lottery) one in 14 million to 1 in 1.9 million. Rather than having to match the six principal balls plus the bonus ball, every last entry will automatically record the bonus number and as a result you only have to match five numbers instead of six, and this boosts your odds greatly.
Many lotto players prefer to avoid a syndicate, especially before the advent of the internet. To such individuals taking part in this playing method meant a great deal of extra work. For example, you would have to find the other syndicate members, make a point of ensuring that the individual cash sums were collected and make arrangements for the handing out of any cash prize wins. In addition, unless you had put together some kind of published agreement between all lottery syndicate members, a variety of quarrels could arise and this could easily lead to a complex and angry situation.
Thanks to the World Wide Web it is now extremely easy to signup to a syndicate managed entirely online. In this way, you won't even know any of the other members in your syndicate, so there can be no potential for disagreements. Another important benefit is that all the administration is taken out of your hands.
In the UK lottery one out of every four jackpots is won by a lotto syndicate and this by itself helps convince a fair amount of lottery players to register with one. Unless you actually savour the weekly interaction, purchasing the tickets, remembering to check the results and using lottery participation as a social form of escapism as many do, then you should consider signing up for a syndicate. Keep dreaming about those wonderful foreign holidays and household luxuries that a lotto win can give you, but at least now the odds are a little bit more in your favor!
