Happy Valentines KW Lottery Pool!

The pool scored its fourth best drawing in our history pulling in $69 this evening on 7 successful number sets. We had 5 sets that had the correct powerball of 30 and an additional 2 sets that had the powerball and the whiteball correct too. Odds are about 1 in 600 that we'd be that successful so this really was an excellent overall night for us. I only used an additional $4 from the lottery pool bank for extra numbers this evening, so now our banked balance is an admirable $161! This gives us some powerful options for future drawings and the amount of tickets we can purchase.

All banked balances are now up to date. If we covered you for this drawing? Please return those funds at your earliest convenience. No jackpot winners for tonight's drawing so that figure now rises to $86 million. If nobody wins Saturday, we'll be over the $100 million mark for next Wednesday's drawing.

Powerball 30 was the 3rd highest selection out of a list of 42 choices according to the spreadsheet giving that number an added nudge based on the predictions it would show up under four different factors - the difference between this powerball and the last, overall frequency over the life of all powerball drawings, frequency in the last 40 drawings, and the next predicted date the number would be pulled. If the spreadsheet continues to make such accurate powerball predictions I'm very tempted to reduce the overall powerball number set drawn from even further from the present 15, which would significantly increase our chances of winning a bigger combined total of money with multiple powerball matches. The risk is that on an evening where the powerball numbers don't follow these loose statistical patterns - that we would completely blank and win nothing - which is exactly what happened with our previous drawing.

We didn't score so well with whiteball predictions otherwise our earnings had the potential to be significantly higher. I threw out 30 - because it had been picked in the last drawing (the majority of drawings don't include a previous number drawn) and 51 based on it's very low overall frequency over the life of all drawings. The good news is that 13 other numbers we tossed, didn't show up either and the fewer white balls you have to pull from the overall pool of 55, the better.

Thanks! John