Although I’m well known for my anti-lottery stance I cannot deny that many people, including myself, are keen for a chance to win their way out of their financial anxieties. After all, who wants to be a pauper for the rest of their lives?

Consequently, before you next fill in a lottery form I suggest you check out the lottery options at most established betting shops. These games are based on the Spanish, Irish and American lotteries and offer the player a much greater chance of winning.

For example, I sometimes do the Coral’s £Million Irish Lotto. Based on the Irish draw a player only has to guess six numbers out of forty five which means that getting a six out of six is twice as easy as on the English lottery.

Six out of six will pay one million pounds for a one pound stake. Five and the sub will pay £100,000 and five numbers will pay £2,500. Getting four numbers will pay £110 and three will pay £13.

Consequently, on this lottery ticket, not only will your chances of winning be much greater than your chances on a National Lottery ticket, if you do win you are likely to be better off because although the top prize is only a million, you will never have to share it with anyone. The whole million will be yours.

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january 18,2009. Have been round the betting shops and find that only Corals' '£Million Irish Lotto' is easy to understand because it works in much the same way the ordinary lotto works. However, all other lotto bets offered by the various betting shops, including Corals, do seem to be quite complicated and are not recommended to anyone who doesn't make a habit of hanging around betting establishments.

February 4, 2009. Some of the staff at Corals can be quite difficult to deal with so I visited other betting shops to see if they offered the same kind of lottery. Ladbrokes offer this million pound Irish Lotto bet but they pay out less for getting three and four numbers and are therefore not such a good deal. William Hill offer the chance of winning a million on the New York lottery, but having had a look at the payouts based on getting six out of forty nine, I didn't think it was a good deal at all. Consequently, I feel I will just have to put up with the staff at Corals and spend my £2 a week there.

August 21st, 2009. I got fed up with not winning anything so stopped doing it altogether. It must now be nearly four months since I bought a lottery ticket - four months in which I haven't experienced the disappointment of finding my lottery ticket didn't win anything. I've enjoyed it.

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