Stay Tuned - Our Lotto Max Analysis to be Published Next Week

Tickets for the new Canadian Lotto Max lottery will go on sale beginning Saturday, September 19th 2009 and the first drawing will be held the following Friday (September 25th).

This new lottery replaces Super 7 which will be retired after the Friday Sept 18 drawing.

Essentially, Lotto Max is a weekly game nearly identical to Super 7. To win, the player must successfully match 7 balls. However, the major differences are that: the number of white balls increased to 49; jackpots begin at C$10 million; tickets cost C$5 for three; the jackpot is capped at C$50M; and above $C50M, additional MAXMILLION C$1 million drawings will be conducted for each million above the C$50M threshold.

In the spirit of offering our players the most comprehensive information, we are preparing a new Blog Post comparing Lotto Max to the old Super 7 and Lotto 649. We believe this is important because the cost of tickets and the chances of actually winning have substantially increased.

While many news releases are currently circulating about this new game, we have found little definitive opinions about whether you should or should not purchase tickets and play it.

We anticipate publishing our analysis by the end of next week so stay tuned!

JL........

Lottery Power Picks is Officially Three Years Old

Tonight completes our full third year of service to you. During that time, our membership has grown from 0 to over 2500. While we haven't increased coverage of new lotteries during this past year, our average weekly subscription has more than doubled.

Unfortunately during this time, we have had to cut back on our blog postings.

But, we believe that our research into new web technologies is placing us in the forefront of lottery coverage.

We look forward to our 4th year by developing new interactive pages similar to our Hot/Cold Analysis pages, and offering you new strategic options for selecting winning numbers.

We thank you all for your dedicated membership and daily visiting. We continue to work for you and are sure that you will be as thrilled as we are when our new strategies are unveiled.

Thanks again!

JL.............

Our Upcoming 3rd Anniversary

In less than 2 weeks, we will be celebrating our 3rd Anniversary of Lottery Power Picks

During that time, our membership has grown and the number of combinations we recommended has climbed. Our content has expanded and we've experimented with new styles of Gui's and other packages.

Many of our members have remained with us since we started on September 1st 2006 and we thank them immensely. Additionally, we continue to welcome all of our new lottery players who joined along the way because they are hoping to win the elusively large Jackpots offered.

Look for our future posts around Sept 1st that will highlight many of our accomplishments.

Thanks again for all your loyality and visit us often during the next few weeks so that we close out this year with record hits and begin our 4th year with a Jumbo Boom!

JL.........

Goodbye Super 7, Hello LOTTO MAX

Beginning Saturday, September 19 2009, tickets for the new Canadian multi-provincial game LOTTO MAX will go on sale. The first drawing for this new weekly game will be on Friday, September 25th. And, the minimum jackpot prize is C$10 million, but is capped at C$50 million. Above C$50M, seperate drawings for a single C$1 million prize will be conducted. This feature is called MAXMILLONS, and for every C$1M over C$50M, a seperate drawing will be held. That could be a lot of drawings!

This new game replaces the existing Super 7 game held every Friday night, and it promises to payout bigger prizes.

LOTTO MAX is very similar to Super 7 in that a player must correctly pick 7 white balls to win the jackpot. An eighth bonus ball is also drawn, and used for awarding 2nd (6 white+bonus) and 6th place (3 white+bonus) prizes.

However, bigger prizes come with a price. In LOTTO MAX's case, its C$5 minimum per play. Yes, each player must purchase 3 combinations for C$5 each (which is 2 1/2 times the cost of the Super 7 tickets).

Also, the number of white balls increases from 47 to 49, thus making it a bit harder to win.

As for us, we are busy creating our statistical pages for this new lottery, and beginning to construct histories of the smaller and more affordable individual provincial lotteries (BC 49, Atlantic 49, etc)

Since it is nearly identical to Super 7, we are simply considering it to be a Super 7 format and name changes for analytical purposes.

JL..........

Introducing the Lottery Annuity Calculator

We are pleased to announce the release of our new Lottery Annuity Calculator Gadget. This new product is available for your use directly on your iGoogle home page, your websites, or blogs.

A screen shot is displayed below.






As shown, the gadget is divided into two halves of information. The left side contains 4 editable fields, the:

1. Jackpot Annuity Value
2. Offered Cash Value
3. Ratio of Cash to Annuity, and
4. Implied Yield.

Only two of the 4 may be entered for calculation. The Check Boxes next to the fields identify which value to use.

Once you have entered your data, press the "Calc" button and all other information will be computed.

At the right side of the screen, you will see the number of annuity payments that that will be made to the winner. Under it will be the amounts of the first and last payments.

To add this gadget, simply press the



button here or above.

We believe this new gadget will be a valuable tool to all lottery players, and especially those who are lucky enough to win! In addition, we welcome all Lottery providers to take advantage of this gadget when projecting future cash and annuity values.

Hot / Cold Lottery Number Frequency Distribution Analysis

We are pleased to announce that we have completed the release of our

Hot / Cold Analysis

pages. In the past, many of you have searched for the:

• Most frequently drawn lottery numbers;
• Lottery number pattern analysis;
• Which lottery numbers are most likely to be drawn
• etc.

This information is now available in one easy to understand source. For each of our 10 covered lotteries, these interactive pages identify which numbers are Hot and which are Cold by displaying their trends over time. You can see the high and low range counts, and the amount of Jackpot and other winnings that various subsets would have paid.

As a easy reference, the pages may be accessed from the links below:

• Mega Millions Hot / Cold Analysis
• Powerball Hot / Cold Analysis
• Canadian Lotto 649 Hot / Cold Analysis
• Canadian Super 7 Hot / Cold Analysis
• California Super Lotto Plus Hot / Cold Analysis
• Hot Lotto 7 Hot / Cold Analysis
• UK Lotto Hot / Cold Analysis
• Thunderball Hot / Cold Analysis
• EuroMillions Hot / Cold Analysis
• Irish Lotto Hot / Cold Analysis

Or, they can be reached by following the Lottery Combo Tables link on our Lottery Power Picks Home Page.

Additionally, we have verified that these pages work well with both IE and Firefox browsers.

Have Fun and Enjoy!

JL......

Mega Millions Hot / Cold Analysis Released

After more than 6 months of development, we are pleased to announce that we have released the first of our series of: Hot / Cold Analysis pages.

The first is for Mega Millions, and can be found at the URL:

Mega Millions Hot / Cold Analysis

Or, it can be reached from our Lottery Power Picks Home Page by following the links:

Lottery Combo Tables (left menu),
and then looking for the link above.

We are excited about this analysis because:

1. It will provide you with information that we (and others) had previously thought to be useless;
2. This data is important to both the committed and casual lottery players;
3. It is updated after each drawing;
   
4. And lastly, it will give you an insight as to where our website will evolve.

Unfortunately during this development time, we sacrificed updating the contents of this blog, but we thought it was worth it.

Also: it only works with FireFox at this moment. But this will be corrected shortly.

Check it out and let us know what you think. (And yes, we already know the page loads slowly).

JL......