This Saturday’s Irish Lotto has a history-making jackpot of €19,060,800.
It could be your county.
Rachel Kane writes:
Bookies Paddy Power reckon there’s a 35% chance the winner will be a Dub (15/8).
The Rebel County are next in the betting (8/1) meaning there is an 11% chance the winner is from the People’s Republic of Cork.
A winner from Galway (14/1) or Donegal (14/1) are both 7% chances, followed by Louth (16/1) which is a 6% chance.
There’s a 4% chance (25/1) that Waterford is the home of yet another slice of Lotto history.
Meanwhile, lotto players in Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Laois, Longford and Leitrim look like no hopers, will each of these counties rated as having a chance of 1% or less of winning the epic jackpot tomorrow night.
Hon Mayo.
Gambling on the outcome of gambling.
Stay classy Paddy Power
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What are you laughing about Bodger? Sure you’re promoting it here! Hope PP are paying ye the few quid!
So we can take a punt on where the lotto will be won and play the lotto on the same day… wow, here’s me thinking gambling is a fuppin stupid waste of money, I’ve been wrong all along…
The country with the highest population is most likely to win- who knew? That percentage is only chance by country, not by individual, which is what really counts.
How about totalling the winners and divide by the country population? That is where the real luck stat is surely.
* County sorry
…I bought my ticket in Castleblaney but it looks like I’d have gotten much better odds backing Monaghan with Paddy Power…
The lotto is essentially a tax on hope.
However, hypocritically, with these sums I will be playing!
Sigh……
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Paddy Power are a scourge
Yup, eating a few weed brownies in the comfort of your own home is essentially harmless (unless you try to play Wii tennis after a few) and is illegal, but a horrifically addictive industry like gambling is flaunted all over the place as being just a bit fun or even in the case of horse or greyhound racing, a family day out.
Play sensibly they say which on the surface seems good advice, but that seems to be the extent of their efforts to curtail problem gambling. Now maybe they have other measures in place, not really that familiar with the industry to be fair but you can literally lose everything you own in the time it takes to cook up a spoonful of heroin.
No idea what the solution might be, prohibition clearly doesn’t work anyway?
the gambling industry has seen the success of the likes of the ‘drink aware’ campaign, which is sponsored by the alcohol industry and denies that alcohol is addictive. the thrust of that campaign is that your addiction is all on you and if you can’t handle it then tough – don’t say we didn’t warn you.
so this responsible gambling push is a huge ‘get out of jail free’ card for the industry; and it’s a cynical two fingers to anyone in the throes of a gambling habit.
Agreed and the move to online has been an absolute disaster for anyone with a problem.
Quick, make a dash to Leitrim and Offaly to buy the winning tickets, placing a bet on the great odds being offered by Paddy Power.
No mention of online winners