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I’m amazed at a website I found from a guy who calls himself “Steve Player.” The purpose of the site is to sell “winning lottery systems.” I’ve been reading the sales copy on the site, and I thought it might be entertaining to look at some of the claims there and the truth behind those claims.
I hope that you’ve been reading my blog posts for a long time and already realize that the lottery isn’t just a losing proposition. It’s one of the worst bets you can make, mathematically. The payback percentage is dreadfully low.
I’m going to spend a little time in this post explaining how the lottery works just in case you don’t already know. Then I’ll take a closer look at some of “Steve Player’s” claims.
How the Lottery Works
Steve Player Lottery Systems are sold in limited quantities and contain mathematically proven formulations for playing winning Lottery numbers. Learning these formulations constitutes a transference of knowledge. Once this transference has taken place the system cannot be returned thus protecting the rights of a limited number of other buyers. There is no one single person named 'Steve Player'. It is a group of so-called “lottery systems developers”. They are related to a now-defunct publication: Lotto World Magazine. The magazine was primarily a vehicle for Steve Player's lotto systems.
A lottery is any kind of gambling game where you choose numbers and compare them with some randomly drawn numbers to see if the numbers match. If enough of them match, you win money. It’s one of the oldest types of gambling in existence. The name itself comes from the expression “drawing lots,” which was also a form of fortune telling.
Modern lotteries are usually governmental streams of revenue. They generally hire out the administration of the lottery to some kind of outside agency, but they heavily regulate the games and keep most of the money from lottery sales.
The main type of regulating getting done has to do with selling licenses to vendors who want to sell lottery tickets. The other regulating has to do with the age requirements for buying lottery tickets.
While lotteries have been popular off and on for centuries, they’ve only recently begun to make a comeback in the United States over the last 50 years or so. Almost all of the 50 states have some kind of state-run lottery.
Governments love this because they can raise money without raising taxes. This has the unfortunate effect of making the poor even poorer because they’re the ones most likely to play the games. They’re also the socioeconomic class most likely to not understand the math behind the games.
Usually, the prize amounts correspond to a percentage of the revenue brought in from the number of lottery tickets sold.
Most modern lottery games involve selecting an arbitrary number or numbers from within a certain range. Then when the random drawing is held, the lottery player compares the numbers she selected with the winning numbers. If they match, she wins money.
The bigger games have you choosing between five and seven numbers ranging from 1 to 60 or 1 to 70.
The smaller games might have you choose as few as three numbers from 0 to 9.
Of course, the bigger the game is, the bigger the prize pool becomes, but the probability of winning gets smaller. The smaller games have smaller prizes but better odds of winning.
Another possible lottery game is the scratch-off ticket, which doesn’t involve choosing numbers at all. You just buy them. Some of them are winners; some of them are not. With scratch-off games, you find out whether you’ve won instantly. With other lottery games, you must wait for the drawing.
The payback percentages for scratch-off tickets can be higher than the payback percentages for other lottery games, but it depends on a couple of factors.
The first is the denomination of the scratch-off ticket. In that respect, scratch-off tickets are like slot machine games. The higher the denomination, the better the payback percentage.
I remember when scratch-off tickets first rolled out in Texas. They were only available for $1 per ticket.
Now you can buy $5 tickets, $10 tickets, and even $25 tickets.
The other factor is whether they’re using some kind of intellectual property license. Any time a game is using the intellectual property of some other company, the payback percentage will be lower. That’s because the originator of the license gets some money, too.
But even though the payback percentage for these scratch-off tickets is higher than the payoffs for the other lottery games, it’s still dreadfully low compared to almost any casino game. We’re talking about maxing out at a payback percentage of 65%, which means the lottery has a house edge of 35%.
Contrast that with almost any table game in the casino. Even roulette has a payback percentage of over 94%. Blackjack has a payback percentage of 99% or higher, and so do good video poker games.
If you can get to a casino, almost any game there (with the possible exception of keno and some slot machine games) offers better odds than the lottery.
Steve Player’s Lottery Claims
Now I want to start looking at some of the claims you’ll find on Steve Player’s website. (I do like his nom de plume, though — credit where credit is due.)
The first thing I notice on his website is a testimonial.
At least that’s how it’s labeled.
It’s not really a testimonial, though. Here’s how it reads:
John Orton from Virginia used the WYNNWHEEL system to pick the winning numbers for the Virginia Lotto game on August 22nd for a Jackpot prize of $100,000.00. But once wasn’t enough so Mr. Orton kept playing and won again on September 23rd – another Jackpot and another $100,000.00. He now awaits his third Jackpot hit! We wish him the best!!!
A testimonial is a comment from a customer who is happy with your product. It’s not a statement about that customer from the salesperson, which is what the above is.
You might think that’s nitpicky, but we’re talking about someone who’s selling products for hundreds of dollars which are supposed to help you win the lottery. I would think attention to detail is the least you could expect from someone in that situation.
One of the things you should also look at with caution is the excessive use of exclamation points. This applies to any website that’s trying to sell you something.
First, it’s incorrect grammar. The only correct use of an exclamation point is when someone has made an exclamation.
After the hammer hit her thumb, she cried, “Ow!”
People who are selling snake oil seem to like exclamation points more than most. When I’m buying something, I want to read something more informative.
Also, I searched for “john orton Virginia lottery” and got plenty of results, but none of them were about a person named “John Orton” who’d won $100k twice in the Virginia lottery.
I can promise you — if someone wins the lottery for six figures twice in a row, it’s newsworthy, and you’ll find it in a search at either major search engine quickly.
The second thing I notice on the front page of his site is the claim that he’s won $50,000 in a single day in the pick 3 game. When you click on “see more” under that claim, you’re taken to a blog post about his win. That post is dated back to 2017, by the way. Is it possible that Steve Player’s system stopped working after that?
Once you get to that blog post, though, you don’t get any real information — just claims about winnings and a sales pitch.
Everything on this page is written in all caps and uses multiple colors. It’s hard to read. It also contains little real information beyond copies of winning lottery tickets and scans of checks with Steve Player’s winnings. These checks are actually made out to “Steve Player,” too.
How likely is it that this is his real, legal name?
I suppose it’s possible, but…
When I search for “Steve Player New Hampshire” in a major search engine, I only find results from his website and from other lottery websites that are advertising his systems. I don’t see anything in the results to indicate that he’s a real person. (Normally, you’d find something on one of the “white pages” type sites if you searched for a real person’s name.)
I don’t want to make an accusation, but I do want to point out that programs like Photoshop make it easy to modify pictures of things like checks and lottery tickets.
Finally, sure — it’s possible that Steve Player won money playing the pick 3 game. Anyone can win money playing the pick 3 game. You could, in fact, guarantee it — just by buying every possible number.
But even though you’d have a guaranteed win, you’d spend more on lottery tickets than you’ve won. Someone with a real working lottery system would point out his return on investment rather than just his winnings.
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It doesn’t matter if you won $50,000 on pick 3 tickets if you bought $100,000 worth of tickets. (For the record, I don’t think that’s what he’s done. I doubt enough people buy his lottery systems for him to be able to afford such a thing. Then again, I might be surprised. After all, we did somehow manage to elect Donald Trump.)
Steve Player’s Story
The first item in the actual menu for the site is called “Our Story.” I clicked on that to see what other information is on the site.
I was greeted by a picture of an older gentleman with a mustache and a strange smirk on his face. I guess if I made my living selling lottery systems, I might not be able to wipe the smirk off my face, either.
The first paragraph talks about how Steve continues to conquer the state lotteries with his “brilliant, award-winning books and playing techniques.”
I wonder what awards his books have won?
I find no mention of any specific awards on the page.
The page continues with a list of the lottery wins he’s booked. He claims to have predicted the winning numbers for 90+ jackpots since 1981. He also says that he’s won the lottery in 21 different states.
Do you think that’s newsworthy?
I know I do.
But remember… when I searched for Steve Player in Google, I found nothing but mentions of him from his own site.
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Then he claims that he was a “prodigal mathematician and a gifted computer programmer.” I have my doubts. There’s no Wikipedia article about him, so he hasn’t made himself notable enough to be included there. And if you know much about Wikipedia, you know that the bar for inclusion is low.
He goes on to claim that he put together statistics and charts that helped him predict winning numbers. Since these numbers are determined randomly, this is patently impossible, unless you believe that the numbers aren’t random.
In fact, if you’ve taken even a simple college course that covers probability, you’ll understand that this just isn’t possible at all.
The thing about random events is that you can’t predict them. That’s what “random” means. And lottery drawings are, most assuredly, random.
You’ll also notice that he never shows any of his charts or analysis on his website.
Some of this is just common sense, too. Player claims that he published two newsletters, both of which predicted winning lottery numbers accurately. If these newsletters worked, how quickly do you think word would spread?
And how likely is it that the lottery wouldn’t take some kind of countermeasure?
In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, when card counting first became popular as a legitimate advantage gambling technique, the casinos did everything they could to thwart card counters. They changed the conditions of the game. They banned players from the game and even from their casinos altogether.
Have you heard of anything similar happening in the lottery industry in the last 30 years?
Here’s another way you can contrast the claims of this lottery system with the claims of the card counting authors. The blackjack books actually explained how they came to the conclusions they had. You’ll find no explanations on Player’s website.
One of the things that makes a lie compelling is the amount of detail with the story. My favorite part of this page is the section explaining how Steve Player has moved to a remote log cabin where he spends ALL of his time hidden away developing lottery systems. Apparently, he has seven cats, too (that might be the only thing on this page I believe).
There follows a list of claims about wins that he’s had playing various lottery games. One wonders how he buys lottery tickets from such a remote location.
He also claims to have donated a sum of money to his favorite charity, Children International.
Here’s a sentence that just made me cringe when I read it:
“With Million [sic] of dollars in Lottery winnings under his belt, the proverbial proof is most certainly in the pudding!”
I don’t even have words.
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Finally, the entire page is written in the third person, as if someone else had written it about Steve Player.
But then the page is signed, “Good luck, Steve Player.”
Bizarre.
The Truth About the Lottery and Lottery Systems
Please don’t buy lottery systems. It would be better if you didn’t use free systems, either.
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If you’re using some kind of system, you’re buying into the validity of that system. Once you’ve done that, you’ll start gambling money you’d be better off not putting into action on one of the worst gambling games you could choose. The odds are just terrible.
I have a friend who’s a conspiracy theorist. He’s absolutely convinced that it’s impossible to win the lottery — that it’s all a hoax.
He’s wrong, of course. They don’t need to concoct an elaborate hoax because the math behind this entirely random game and its payouts guarantees the people running the lottery a profit.
Almost all these lottery systems rely on the gambler’s fallacy or some other logical fallacy to create their system for winning. Some of these systems involve “wheeling” numbers, which just means getting multiple combinations that include a set of numbers.
None of these systems do anything to change the odds in your favor.
The only way to increase your probability of winning the lottery is to buy more tickets.
In fact, you can always guarantee that you’ll win the lottery by buying every combination of numbers available.
The problem is that you’ll always win less money than you spent buying those tickets.
As Tom Hanks put it in his now-famous Black Jeopardy skit on Saturday Night Live:
That’s how they get you.
Conclusion
No, lottery systems can’t help you win a life-changing sum of money. In fact, playing the lottery is one of the dumbest things you can do with your money.
But if you’re looking for some cheap entertainment, read some of the sales copies on some of these terrible lottery system websites. My favorite so far is Steve Player’s.
Outlandish!
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