Lottery winner's tips to increase your Powerball odds

well we gotta move on to the lottery now from all parts of the country scrambling to get that Powerball ticket for the 1.5 billion dollar jackpot drawn tonight your odds of winning one in 292 million but my next guest has got the secret to increase your chances of winning maybe not for tonight we're going to ask him Richard Lessing joins me now seven times Florida Lottery grand prize winner you wrote a book I wanna say this learn how to increase your chances of winning the lottery okay tonight what do you say to all of us tonight all right everybody these people are coming out of the Woodworks that don't ever buy tickets because it's such as great this big grin bring grand prize okay so now they're buying tickets for the first time and all of a sudden now they want to be president of the company in one day it doesn't work that way so they're looking for some magic answer what can I do to increase my chances tonight there is nothing you can do to increase your chances just do a quick Peck tonight's what you're saying there's nothing is only one thing you can do and it's the worst answer in the world but it's the only answer is buy as many tickets as you can afford and that's the key what you can afford don't spend grocery money don't spend rent money right stay within your budget okay well I want to get to some tips if we want to do other types of law because I brought Mega Millions last weekend because I know what my odds are the Powerball right you've got some tips for those that actually like to play the lottery every week and I think these are really interesting when I get to the end you say don't use the Quick Pick absolutely do not buy quick picks all right the reason why is the first of all for people watching the show and don't know what a quick pick is that's when you hand the clerk a couple of bucks and yet a sheen picture ticket and okay I don't buy quick picks because every time you do you get a different set of numbers therefore your odds are always going to be at their worst like you said in the intro the odds of winning Powerball are one in 292 million you say play consistently don't change the numbers go beyond the birthdays but also know your limits what you said about tonight like understand the odds and realize you may not be that one in 292 million people tonight they gotta win lottery okay okay well still bottom we'll see I don't know every report anchor I think in this building is holding their lotteries we cannot help ourselves obsessed

Channel: Fox Business

Views: 73,981

Keywords: Cheryl Casone, Risk And Reward, Lifestyle Budget, On Air, Personal Finance, Personality, Fox Business

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Length: 2min 14sec (134 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 14 2016