If you can believe it I have been buying lottery tickets for years in the hope of winning tens of millions of dollars. I know other people do this too and no one really expects to win anything significant but I never really took the time to understand just how dismal the odds are when you are playing a lottery game.
This article explaining why keno is the worst casino game you can play makes it all so clear now. The formula for computing the odds in any lottery-style game is so simple I don’t know why I haven’t learned about it before now. I suppose everyone feels justified in saying the odds are really low when you gamble and so they don’t try to explain why.
I have never played keno but I understand how it works now. You are trying to guess 10 of the numbers that are being chosen from a pool of 80 numbers. 20 numbers will be pulled so you have a better chance of winning than if only 10 numbers were pulled. But it is still so hard to get the 10 numbers I wonder if anyone has ever won the big jackpot.
Well, I guess there have been a few winners in Oregon’s keno game since 1999. It’s just a really hard game to win.
If you are going to gamble they say the best odds are in blackjack but if you are not a good blackjack player you probably won’t do very well. You can always practice with a free online blackjack game.
After blackjack I don’t know what the next best game to gamble is. Maybe roulette but I don’t play roulette. I like to play the slot machines. After reading that keno article I don’t feel so bad playing slot machines at all.