{"id":192640,"date":"2021-11-22T07:22:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=192640"},"modified":"2021-12-15T05:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:44:20","slug":"irish-national-lottery-rolls-over-for-six-months-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/irish-national-lottery-rolls-over-for-six-months-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish National Lottery Rolls Over for Six Months Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one has won the Irish National Lottery jackpot in almost sixth months, and the unprecedented 23-week, 47-draw rollover is making lawmakers angsty.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s up with the Irish National Lottery? Lawmaker Bernard Durkanm, seen above, wants to find out why it hasn\u2019t been won in months. (Image: Irish Independent<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fine Gael politician Bernard Durkan (Kildare North) said Friday there should be a \u201cfull audit and investigation\u201d into the lottery operator, Premier Lotteries Ireland before people lose faith in its \u201cwinnability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of tomorrow night\u2019s Lotto draw, the prospect of winning is so remote that punters must be thinking Shergar would have a better chance at winning Squid Game<\/em>,\u201d <\/strong>Durkan complained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was referencing the famous Irish-born thoroughbred, which was stolen in 1983 and never seen again, and the popular South Korean survival drama, seen again and again by over 111 million, according to its streamer, Netflix.<\/p>\n

Durkan believes the problem might be a profusion of balls \u2013 and he might be on to something.<\/p>\n

Needle Broken<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When Ireland\u2019s lottery launched in 1988, there were 36 numbers to choose from. Now there are 47. The reason why lottery companies are so interested in raising the ball count is that it makes it harder to win, which creates more rollovers. That means there are bigger jackpots.<\/p>\n

Studies show this \u201csnowball effect\u201d makes people more likely to play, despite diminishing odds. Thus, the lottery becomes a kind of self-propelled publicity machine.<\/p>\n

In Ireland, though, there are a couple of problems with this. First, regulations cap the maximum jackpot at \u20ac19 million ($21.4 million). <\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s in contrast to the Powerball<\/a> and Mega Millions in the US, which will just go on climbing and have topped the billion-dollar mark<\/a> on three occasions.<\/p>\n

This is the first time the Irish National Lottery jackpot has reached these dizzying heights, which does make it an eye-catching prize, for sure. But it has been sitting on \u20ac19 million since mid-September. It\u2019s like it\u2019s stuck. The needle is not moving. It\u2019s broken.<\/p>\n

Winning Chances<\/h2>\n

Second, Ireland has a relatively small population at just 5 million, with odds of winning the jackpot at around 1 in 10.7 million. According to The Irish Independent<\/em>, 1.4 million tickets are sold for each bi-weekly draw.<\/p>\n

That gives us roughly a one in ten chance that someone will win the jackpot on any given draw. And so, there\u2019s a mathematical expectation that the jackpot will be won once every ten draws, or every five weeks, because there are two draws a week.<\/p>\n

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To go 23 weeks, then, is statistically unlikely. But it\u2019s not too dissimilar to losing eight or nine coinflips in a row. In short, it\u2019s weird, but it happens. And meanwhile, the odds of someone winning the next draw remain one in ten, which means it probably won\u2019t happen this week, either.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Meanwhile, Durkan has seized the issue by the balls. He asked lottery chief executive Andrew Algeo to just “drop a couple of balls as a mark of good faith.”<\/p>\n

“Mr. Algeo, tear down those balls,” he thundered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No one has won the Irish National Lottery jackpot in almost sixth months, and the unprecedented 23-week, 47-draw rollover is making lawmakers angsty. Fine Gael politician Bernard Durkan (Kildare North) said Friday there should be a \u201cfull audit and investigation\u201d into the lottery operator, Premier Lotteries Ireland before people lose faith in its \u201cwinnability.\u201d Ahead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":192645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13699,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIrish National Lottery Rolls Over for Six Months Straight<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Irish National Lottery has rolled over for the 27th time straight but at \u20ac18 million, it reached its cap in September. 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