Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I found this book in my local library and quickly read through it. After reading the very basic and often misleading advice in the book (play more numbers, buy more tickets, play the same numbers each time, etc), here's my advice: Don't buy or waste your time (all 20 minutes of it) reading this book. Here's why. - The lottery is a probability game. There is NO WAY to be an 'expert' at beating the system. If I flip a coin 100 times, and I call it correct 74 times, does that make me an expert on how to call a coin flip correctly? Of course not...if anything, I am lucky. Each ball in a lottery machine has the same odds of showing up. So you could see a winning number repeat before you see your numbers come up. That is where his 'play the same numbers' advice is flawed. He makes you think that you are a lock to win by playing the same numbers over and over. Hard reality: Mathematics and probability say you are not a lock even if you play the same numbers for your entire life. - Lustig has won 7 jackpots, yet his winnings are never described as being much more than $1 million. Why? Because he wins games that have better odds (pick 3's, pick 4's, etc), and just plays a lot. He can't win any 'bonus ball' game because it throws a HUGE wrench into how he plays. And, again to the coin flip example. If we flip 100 times, I call it correct 7 times, am I an expert? Far from it. Just think how many lottery games Lustig has played and NOT won. If he wants to claim his expertise, I'd like to see him break down what he's paid vs. what he's won from the lottery (for example, how much money he invested in playing before he hit each jackpot). - His advice is simple, at best, and common sense, at worst. It comes down to this: play more. How is that advice to win? Of course if you play more you have a better chance of winning. But you could go through LOTS of cash before you even even come close to breaking even, let alone coming out on top. If you are sitting at a slot machine in Vegas, play $10, you might not win. Put in $100, you might not win. Put in $1,000, you might not win. Get up, and someone puts in $1 and wins. Again, where his advice is flawed. Your investment into the games does not guarantee a positive return. To further that, his simple advice of playing more tickets more often to increase your chance of winning is universally known. So what's he's charging $40 for? Something tells me that Lustig's income is all from appearances and book royalties at this point. But, for him to claim to be an expert with something that has everything to do with probability and chance is just plain wrong. And the fact that he is so defensive on here against these types of reviews (read the comments of some of the bad ones) goes to show that he knows that he is simply an expert in preying upon the hopes of others.