A couple of months back Drey emailed me with a common question.

"Ken, can you help. I've been playing for a while and only getting small prizes each week of $100, 150 or so. When am I going to win big as others are?"

I put on my Free Coaching hat and got some more information about how he was playing.

It needed improvement.

Drey was playing twice a week with $20 a time, and his tickets were $2 each. That's only 10 tickets.

But he really was doing OK...

First of all I told him that these results were really good.

I told him I walk past our supermarket lotto counter every couple of days and I very rarely hear the winning till chime from the queues of people getting their tickets checked.

The cashiers tell me they only get a dozen winners from the hundreds visiting each day after a game.

And the prizes are never more than the smallest division of a bonus ticket or $12.

So when you consider that the average player wins nothing in most games, Drey's wins are very encouraging.

Here's the plan I gave him...

I mapped out a plan for him to play once every 2 weeks with the $80 he would normally spend over that time.

Except he would put it into just one game.

You'll never guess what happened last week - or maybe you did:

"Wow Ken, $2500 was the result of my first game and $400 on the second. I didn't expect that to happen…!!"

Drey was failing because he was doing what most amateur lotto players do. Playing for fun, not getting serious.

Fun is great of course, but when you ramp up your efforts by playing frequently with more tickets, the law of numbers comes into effect.

And your win results start to improve.