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Question for the readers above, February 27, 2008
Before buying this book ask yourself this, did the reviewers above actually win the lottery after buying the book and why isn't every PHd in Mathematics and statistics doing the same thing. Please buy a book on basic statistics before buying this book. there are no secrets no clustering just randomness. You will lose 50 cents on average for every dollar spent.
Save you money instead of buying what is a piece of garbage.
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A fraudulent book, December 2, 2009
This book is based on the false concept that there is a substantial and readily detectable bias in lotto/lottery draws, which one can take advantage of and win money. Nothing could be further from the truth. All games are regularly tested with sophisticated statistical methods to make sure there is no bias and thus all numbers are as random as can be obtained. This does not rule out a rare screw up by a state game. Few if any of the sets of numbers in the book could have come from any honestly run game, but only from the warped and dishonest mind of a con man and a scam artist. A few examples will serve as illustration.
On p.17 Jones shows a lottery frequency chart in Fig.4.2 that he claims is based on 500 draws of a 4-ball game. But the data are doctored. A bright high school student taking a statistics class can calculate that the table is a fake.
Next, go to p.24 and look at the positional analysis of a Pick-4 game in Fig.5.3
Count how many hits there are in each position and note that the ssums are all different. Specifically, they are 50-42-41-51 for a total of 184 and a mean of 46, which each position must have. But Jones has used faked data to illustrate a false idea. Any recommendation based on faked data is bogus.
As a third example look at positional analysis of a 6/49 game on p.47. In Fig.6.5 none of the six positions have the same sum. They vary from 49 to 70, which is absurd. He then uses the same data for a positional analysis of a 5/35 game by extracting the 5/35 part of the 6/49 data, as if the two games could have identical numbers.
Jones ha copied, plagiarized and stolen Dimitrov Wheeling Systems from G.Howard,
who has the copyright to them.
In summary, the book is a dishonest and or an incompetent piece of crap. The publisher, Cardoza, was informed years ago about these and many more faked data but republished them without any change. Cardoza and book sellers honor only the maxim: Caveat emptor or sucker beware.
Prof. Jones is a professional gambler and could not be a professor of any academic subject.He seems to be a teacher of flim-flam and public deception.
You could make more money buying tickets for the $10 than this book. Borrow it at your libray aand test his phoney ideas on past drawings before risking any money.
Stig Holmquist
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20 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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goes in detail into methods to reduce your odds, May 14, 2000
This review is from: Winning Lotto / Lottery For Everyday Players (Paperback)
One of the more detailed books i've seen on the subject. Goes step by step thru the process of lowering your odds for pick 3, pick 4, pick 5, pick 6, and power ball. It covers in great detail the following methods: frequency, position, cluster, summing, and wheeling.
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