Premium Bond Winner ?

lr1277

Nothing on a 32k holding.

josh33

I've had a full £50k holding for 2 years, and won a paltry £125 (5x £25) in that time - 2x £25 in Month 1 (thought I was off to a good start!), £25 in Month 6, a 1-year gap then 2x £25 in Month 18. Nothing in the last 6 months, and no larger prize than £25.

My wife has had a smaller £10k holding for 8 months and won her first prize of £1000 last month - she has much better luck than me!

couriervanman

josh33 said:

I've had a full £50k holding for 2 years, and won a paltry £125 (5x £25) in that time - 2x £25 in Month 1 (thought I was off to a good start!), £25 in Month 6, a 1-year gap then 2x £25 in Month 18. Nothing in the last 6 months, and no larger prize than £25.

My wife has had a smaller £10k holding for 8 months and won her first prize of £1000 last month - she has much better luck than me!

Nothing for a year on full £50k holding is very unlucky I hope my £50k which go into first draw in March have better luck

ranciduk

Nothing for a year??

how many bloody ladders have you walked under ?

damn!

csgohan4

£25 on 50k

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couriervanman said:

josh33 said:

I've had a full £50k holding for 2 years, and won a paltry £125 (5x £25) in that time - 2x £25 in Month 1 (thought I was off to a good start!), £25 in Month 6, a 1-year gap then 2x £25 in Month 18. Nothing in the last 6 months, and no larger prize than £25.

My wife has had a smaller £10k holding for 8 months and won her first prize of £1000 last month - she has much better luck than me!

Nothing for a year on full £50k holding is very unlucky I hope my £50k which go into first draw in March have better luck

I would sell and re buy new bonds. But will lose a couple of draws.

mikb

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couriervanman said:

josh33 said:

I've had a full £50k holding for 2 years, and won a paltry £125 (5x £25) in that time - 2x £25 in Month 1 (thought I was off to a good start!), £25 in Month 6, a 1-year gap then 2x £25 in Month 18. Nothing in the last 6 months, and no larger prize than £25.

My wife has had a smaller £10k holding for 8 months and won her first prize of £1000 last month - she has much better luck than me!

Nothing for a year on full £50k holding is very unlucky I hope my £50k which go into first draw in March have better luck

I would sell and re buy new bonds. But will lose a couple of draws.

Without using references to superstition, why would you do that?

jeffdavies

Just done the same thing myself. Due to very low wins for a few years with 'small blocks' of numbers, I cashed in all of my MAX holding at the beginning of Jan then bought the MAX holding in just one block, again last night. OK, I now have to wait until the April draw but I think it's worth a try. I did this because a relative has for the past 2 years, won each and every month with his one block of £50,000. I appreciate it's 'probably' all about luck BUT who knows! :-)

eskbanker

jeffdavies said:

Just done the same thing myself. Due to very low wins for a few years with 'small blocks' of numbers, I cashed in all of my MAX holding at the beginning of Jan then bought the MAX holding in just one block, again last night. OK, I now have to wait until the April draw but I think it's worth a try. I did this because a relative has for the past 2 years, won each and every month with his one block of £50,000. I appreciate it's 'probably' all about luck BUT who knows! :-)

As discussed last time this came up earlier this month, it's a fallacy that changing bonds to bigger blocks improves luck, but of course most who have below-average luck will start to have average luck or better at some point anyway - if this happens to coincide with changing bonds (as it naturally will for some who change) then the confirmation bias will kick in and they'll proudly claim that it's because of changing their holding!  Of course, those who change their bonds and have worse (or similar) luck thereafter won't return to post about it....

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mikb said:

[Deleted User] said:

couriervanman said:

josh33 said:

I've had a full £50k holding for 2 years, and won a paltry £125 (5x £25) in that time - 2x £25 in Month 1 (thought I was off to a good start!), £25 in Month 6, a 1-year gap then 2x £25 in Month 18. Nothing in the last 6 months, and no larger prize than £25.

My wife has had a smaller £10k holding for 8 months and won her first prize of £1000 last month - she has much better luck than me!

Nothing for a year on full £50k holding is very unlucky I hope my £50k which go into first draw in March have better luck

I would sell and re buy new bonds. But will lose a couple of draws.

Without using references to superstition, why would you do that?

 I understand fully that statistically there is no different and every bond has the same chance. BUT I found that when I have purchased newer bonds they have seemed to win a lot more. Whether this is because they or new, or I bought them in a big bank whereas before it was in blocks, I don't know.