How College Students Beat the Lotto and Made 700,000$ in 1 WEEK!

CrowdLotto Inc.
SmartCaptain App
Published in
3 min readFeb 9, 2017

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How would your life change if you made 700,000 dollars in cold hard cash in one week? Well, a group of MIT students know exactly how it feels! Several years ago a bright and soon to be graduating student needed a final project to complete his mathematics degree…and what better way to use the power of mathematics, than with the lottery! Now we all know that the odds of winning most jackpots are one in MILLIONS, but James Harvey discovered that this didn’t mean you couldn’t win at all! James and a few colleagues analyzed multiple games and discovered a huge weakness in one of Massachusetts signature games, The Cash Win Fall. This particular game was different from the rest, but the theory proves the same.

In 2005, James and around 50 of his fellow students formed a betting group, or as we shall call it a pool. With just $1,000 in initial capital they bought their very first tickets. Guess what. They tripled their investment! Now having proven the concept they set off to maximize their potential and multiply their winnings. By 2010, they had made so much as a group that they legitimized their business and begin paying business taxes. They were now ready to ramp up their business to see just how much one group could win! Over the course of a few years, James and the MIT team went on to make nearly $8,000,000! Which is nothing short of amazing!

However, there were quite a few problems that the team often faced. How to manage all those slips and how to evenly split the pool. It was noted that after each drawing, they would typically spend up to 10 hours looking through their tickets trying to determine which ones were valuable and which ones were not. Can you imagine sorting hand by hand through hundreds, no, thousands of tickets? It would be horrible, especially if you ever made a mistake.

This is where SmartCaptain Mobile App saves the day! You have probably heard of the countless co-workers around the country that have hit the “big” jackpot, often splitting millions of dollars amongst the other pool members. We are also sure you have started or at least have thought about starting your own pool so that you too, can grab a piece of that deliciously sweet pie. Well, we wanted to make it easier for more groups to get into the lottery pool action without having the headaches and problems that often accompany them.

SmartCaptain Lottery Pool Manager App easily allows you to build your own private pool with friends, family, or coworkers, just like the MIT students and split the payments directly through the app. No more trying to catch up with pool members who have not paid or are too busy to meet in person. Have you heard about the lottery pool members that took the pool founder to court claiming that they did not split the winnings with the group even though they all invested? Well, if you haven’t, to keep things short, the owner bought a separate ticket apart from the group and could not prove that his ticket was actually his alone! That is a huge problem!

SmartCaptain Lottery Pool Mobile App ensures you will never have that problem. Every time you purchase your groups tickets all you must do is take a picture of them and everyone in the group will instantly know which numbers they have invested in, completely removing the liability of proof from you! Once the winnings are in, instead of having to count the tickets one by one comparing numbers, all you need to do is scan them via the app and you will instantly know how much each ticket is worth. When all the tickets are scanned easily disburse the winnings amongst the group with one simple tap of a button. What used to be a 20-step process just got cut into 5!

Now you and your lotto friends can be on the way to soon landing that big $700,000 in a week payout!

— Denard

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Developer of lottery ticket scanner: LottoMonkey App, and lottery pool manager: SmartCaptain App