I started this site with the goal of helping people become successful bettors. I know I can do this because I spent over 34 years creating modelling systems for Telecommunication companies, Aviation companies, and some of the largest defense sector companies that have created some of the most advanced weapons systems in the world.
That same modelling system experience that I used over the years is the one State lotteries use to extract enormous amounts of money from hard working people.
Why am I doing this? The answer to that question started back in 1984, in a small, corner pharmacy. It was, and might still be, at 103rd Street and 3rd Avenue, on the Lower East Side, in a neighborhood affectionately known as, “Spanish Harlem“.
Though its name suggests exclusivity, that part of New York is home to many different ethnic groups. There are Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, and Whites. It was a poor neighborhood but it has a lot of good hearted, hard working people.
I got to know many of them working for Mr. Blake. He owned Blake’s Rexall Pharmacy. Customers would come in to have a prescription filled, buy some toiletries or something to ease their ailment.
Some would walk over to the far right side of the counter, seeking relief from another form of ailment that was rampant in the neighborhood. That ailment was always evident whenever they split open their wallets only to see three lonely dollar bills huddling with each other for company.
As they came closer to my side, some of their faces radiated a glimmer of hope. A glint in their eyes told me they knew they had hot numbers. And with that optimish, they began: “Seven Ninety Five…50/50”. My fingers floated over the numeric keypad pressing each digit as she said it. The minute I hit the return key, the familiar sounds the impact printer made reassured her that I was all ears. Each, “tara-tara-tatara…THUMP!” indicated one more ticket had been printed and cut off the roll. Those sounds reassured her all my attention was focused solely on this most important transaction! “Four Sixty Three…50/50 and One O Nine…STRAIGHT!”. The last printed ticket was finished. I reached for them and handed them to her.
She checked over each one and made sure they were all correct. Her diligence in checking the accuracy of my work was as intense as a Wall Street accountant. When she was satisfied, she would give me a smile and walk out the pharmacy.
I can’t say I was happy doing my job for Mr. Blake by running that lottery machine. I guess I was satisfied that he only let me operate it because he had tested my trustworthiness and found me to be worthy of his trust in addition, he seemed to enjoy seeing me produce those tickets very accurately and very fast. No matter how long the line was, I kept pace with the crowd. When one person was satisfied, I went to the next one. I think even the people liked how quickly they got their numbers.
Though I liked the people that came into the pharmacy, there was one thing that I did not like. It was the large number of people that lost compared to the very small percentage that won. Of those that won, some would come in with their winning ticket, ask me how much it was worth and when I gave them their prize money. Though they won, it did not make up for large numbers of people that lost.
I only stayed there until I finished my undergraduate studies at City College. I had graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree and told Mr. Blake that I would be leaving soon. He offered me to stay until I started working but I felt bad about the way the game took advantage of poor people.
That bad feeling stayed with me for a very long time. I would often ask myself if there was a way that I could help them. The game itself was pretty straight forward: pick a three digit number from a field of 1,000 possibilities. If you picked it just as it appeared on television, you won $250 for a fifty cent bet. That was a “straight” bet. You could also play “box” which meant you were betting that any of the six possible ways your three digit appeared on television would make you a winner. That was a prize of $40. If your bet only had three possible combinations, you won $80 dollars.
I often compared that game to other games of chance and dreamed of how to increase the odds for the gambler. There were many crafted “systems” that had been used by many individuals in many games of chance. Some like, Edward O. Thorpe, wrote a book back in 1962 titled, Beat the Dealer, which outlined a technique for beating the odds in blackjack by tracking the remaining cards in the deck.
His technique intrigued me and through many years of trying, I came up with my own way of tracking the outcomes of State lottery games. The technique depends heavily on Thorpe’s idea of the “richness” of the deck. I had to modify this aspect of his theory to make it suitable for the numbers game and I feel that it gives people a better way of picking their numbers.
The immediate benefits to most bettors is that they will be able to SEE with their own eyes how my website shows where the likely hot numbers are being formed. This will allow them to not waste money on bad numbers or so called “cold” numbers and place their bets on hot “veins” of numbers.
Along with the website, I have put together a small booklet that explains how to use my website’s tracking feature so they can use it intelligently and know what they are doing.
I suspect that if this type of strategy is adopted by a large percentage of daily numbers players, most states will see a dramatic reduction in their revenue. They might even drop the game altogether. Or worst yet, they might come after me for doing this.
I don’t think they would come after me for helping people but I am quite sure that they won’t be happy about it!