"Soccer Pools is being AXED after paying out a $1.49 million prize because it was the least popular lottery game in Australia"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5677449/Soccer-Pool...
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotteries_in_Australia#Soccer_...
Did he put it to the test? Seemingly not. And now that the methods are explained, there will likely be too many other people trying this to make any money from it.
This article is essentially a white hat hacker disclosing a vulnerability.
[1] https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/how-a-secret-syndicate...
But in a general lottery (random) it makes more sense to put $50 into a single lottery than $1 in 50 lotteries. That's the only way to improve your chances.
If there's any chance at all that the lottery does not draw from an equiprobable distribution and some numbers are privileged - but you don't know what they are, it's best to spread your bets to increase the chance that you bet on the hot number by accident. This is true if a single number has any edge eps>0. Therefore you should almost always (with probability 1) spread your bets.
$21k per play 5% chance winning = at LEAST 4m bankroll?
It’s still a fun read (except the ending) but that should’ve been near the top to separate casual readers vs imma-get-rich-by-applying-similar-method readers.
Also, as mentioned by @falsedan, 20 * 20k = 400k (if that's the math you were attempting, which is not a sophisticated way to determine bankroll, but a good starting point)
If there has been a recent change in the rules, then it would give credence to the story. I did not see a comment yet on the post's website.
