How likely are we to win when betting?

 

Gambling, even if it is not too much money, is something that we like a lot in Spain and there are games that have hundreds of thousands of loyal players such as the National Lottery, the ONCE coupon or the slot machines. Shall we play to pass the time? By addiction? To earn money? I am sure that the most widespread answer would be to earn some money but… how much chance do we have of doing it?

If you like to gamble, surely after reading this post, you will have no doubt that online betting offers the most opportunities to win for everyone, especially sports betting .

Bet on traditional games

As I said at the beginning, the most traditional games of chance are the ones that have the most followers, although it seems that many people have the fact of betting on them as an inertia, even if they never touch or the prizes they touch are not too big .

For example, with slots it depends on the programming you have, but the chances of winning a fairly decent prize are around 20%. If we look at it from a statistical point of view, 20% is not bad at all, but you do not always get the highest award.

The ONCE coupons are much less likely to win, where we will only have a 1% chance of winning the first prize.

With the Christmas Lottery we have an 86% probability that we will not get anything, a 9% that we will get the refund and a 0.00001% of winning the jackpot. This is one of the cases in which it is played more for tradition than for anything else. Likewise, the Children's Lottery is also another tradition and gives us 8% to win a prize.

The probabilities of winning the plenary session at 15 of the football pool are between 1 and 14,348,907; of 14 between 1 and 4,782,969; from 13 between 1 and 1,594,323; from 12 between 1 and 531,441; of 11 between 1 and 177,147 and of 10 hits between and 59,049

I finish with the La Primitiva draw, where the probabilities of matching the 6 numbers are between 1 and 14 million possibilities. Now do you understand why people who hope to have more opportunities to win money choose to gamble online?