Go Figure

Lottery players either lack originality or have a wicked sense of humor:

State lottery officials closed down betting on 871 because too many New Yorkers were playing the number — the hotel room where pay-for-love-gov Eliot Spitzer romped with a hooker.

Officials retired the number for Tuesday night’s Daily Numbers game after it reached $5 million in sales, lottery spokesman John Charleson said Wednesday.

The lottery cuts off sales to numbers when they reach $5 million in order to limit the state’s payout should the number hit.

The number’s popularity surged after reports that Spitzer trysted with a high-class hooker named “Kristen” in room 871 of the swanky Mayflower Hotel in Washington.

But it turned out to be as unlucky for gamblers as it was for Spitzer: Tuesday evening’s winning number was 662.