With the top prize increased to $500 million, the current Ohio Powerball has become the largest jackpot ever for the multi-state game. Imagine going home with $327 million. What would you do with it? It sure would come in handy as Christmas shopping season is already here. Even so, I'm sure a lot of us know that $327 million would go a long way in improving several aspects of our lives.

There are several strategies out there on the internet telling you how to increase your chances of hitting the jackpot especially the Ohio Powerball especially since no winner emerged in the first drawing.

Do not be deceived, there is no guarantee that any of these strategies will work. Life itself has no guarantee and there's every possibility that the strategies out there offer even less guarantee than life itself. While there is some kind of possibility that these strategies MAY actually narrow down your chances of winning, the mistake some of us make is that we think they are guaranteed 'WRONG!

Several strategies have been put in place specifically directed at winning the Ohio Powerball. Gail Howards successful book Lottery Master Guide explains in details his methods of selecting out numbers with several examples of patterns. An impressive tip that Gail Howard came up with after analyzing past lotto results dating as far back as 1955 is:

That which is MOST POSSIBLE happens MOST OFTEN

According to Gail Howards, the key to successful lotto number selection method is playing the probabilities. For example, playing a particular patter that happens only five percent of the time, that pattern is expected to lose 95% of the time. Therefore 95% of the time you can expect not to win. So do not take the probabilities for granted. Another strategy that seems to be working is Lottery pools and Lottery syndicates where groups of people pool in their money and by doing so can afford to buy more tickets.

In playing the lotto (Ohio Powerball), the easiest way to monitor numbers that have the greatest chances of winning is to track the trends.