Group of nine claims $207M Powerball lottery jackpot

Comment #29

mken32 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:00:29 GMT

Wow I mean Wow

Comment #28

JackpotWanna — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:02:11 GMT

WOW! 9 winners! Party on

Comment #27

lotto-leo — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:55:02 GMT

Congrats, to the New Winners' of New Mexico.......

Stay tuned Arizona Hopefuls.....

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Comment #26

Kola — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:41:09 GMT

Great story - congrats

Comment #25

foragoodcause — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:04:10 GMT

Well,I have to admit that i won the 2nd price of the take 5 in NY last month using Gail Howard system just 1 or 2 months after i bought her book,i almost won $100.000,well i will try again.Thanks.

Comment #24

Velocity — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:18:25 GMT

Congrats, now if we could all be as lucky

Comment #23

donya7 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:23:55 GMT

Congrats, to those nine friends from Roswell who recently won the Powerball in New Mexico

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ThatScaryChick — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:25:21 GMT

Me too

Comment #21

spy153 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:19:40 GMT

That is a huge help, thank you.

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KY Floyd — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:52:54 GMT

I would assume that the change in the annuity amount is because they sold more tickets than they expected. If that's the case, the cash amount will still be the same percentage of the annuity value. 101.1/200=50.55%. .5055*207 million is 104.64 million.

Comment #19

Lotto*Love — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:38:27 GMT

I know how you feel....I'm horribly unlucky. And I used to think positive like most should, but it never has gotten me anywhere for years of playing.

Now I get to where I feel all winners will always be back east. Though I know deep, deep, deep, deep , deep down that its not true. We have had a whole 2 jp winners in Washington in 6 years LMAO..but I guess you just need to look at it as you really won't ever win if you don't play.

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Comment #18

RJOh — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:23:54 GMT

only the me is not you, it's me and I'm going to keep trying even if I lose.

Comment #17

Lotto*Love — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:17:49 GMT

I think I may know what your talking about.

The difference is the amount of tickets sold after one drawing till the next drawing cutoff for purchase. The winners are entitled to those too.

For instance.......

If on a Wednesday draw, and the amount was for 100M.....and no one won... next jackpot is say 115M...

The next jackpot is 115M, but the tickets sold after Wednesday draw up to the next draw are added to the jackpot.

I hope that makes sense, because I totally confused myself.

Comment #16

spy153 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:36:42 GMT

you misunderstood me. Don't worry about it, you're not the first one.

The original estimated jackpot amount for the last drawing was 200 million dollars. After the winners were announced, the amount they actually won was 207 million dollars. The original estimated cash amount was 101.1 million dollars. If the annuity amount changed, then the cash amount changed. But I can never find that information out anywhere. Except the last time I got it from FJA

Comment #15

foragoodcause — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:07:59 GMT

I'm sick and tired to play the lottery and not winning the jackpot,if someone deserve to win th most it will be me,if i don't win tonight i will probably stop playing.I hope God will answer my prayer and bless me tonight,because i want to win the jackpot.

Comment #14

JAP69 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:44:25 GMT

USA mega has the game info. Link on left.

Jackpot analysis

http://www.usamega.com/powerball-jackpot.htm

Comment #13

spy153 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:30:28 GMT

Congratulations to the winners !

See, what happened to it being a 200 million dollar jackpot? They change it and don't let anyone know the differences. For instance, what does that make the cash amount for that game now? I don't know. Does anyone know? I feel slighted when they do things like that.

Comment #12

NightTrain1234 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:50:04 GMT

LOL! Nah, the guy in the middle helping hold the check is the head lottery official in N.M. The man hardly smiling is the son of one of the couples.

This newsstory said they haven't decided yet how to split the money among the 9 but they know it won't be evenly. I smell a lawsuit coming on. :-)

http://kob.com/article/stories/S604904.shtml?cat=500

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KY Floyd — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:24:38 GMT

No, he's the one who's wearing a suit, and standing in the middle of the giant promo check that's made out for twice as much as they're really getting.

Comment #10

Lotto*Love — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:51:53 GMT

thats what i was wondering too. Makes me feel better when they only bought 1 or 2 tickets. Gives me hope in my lottery buying times. I can only afford a few.

But since they said she maybe collected money from everyone...could of been at least $9 dollars. More depending on how much each added to the pot.

How much is that each family after taxes? About 15M?

I'm glad it was a group..CONGRATS

Comment #9

Stew12 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:18:21 GMT

Good for them!

I wonder how many tickets they had

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Piaceri — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:13:17 GMT

Nice! Congrats to the group! Party time!

Yes when I saw the picture, my first thought was maybe one of the guys had a boyfriend......

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savagegoose — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:46:24 GMT

wow they aint even cashed the check and there is hangers on trying to bum money already

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JAP69 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:44:26 GMT

Thats I

He wanted to be in the photo with his Roswell friends .

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Litebets27 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:07:48 GMT

Funny you mentioned this. That was the first thing that I dd when I looked at the picture.

Congratulations to the group.

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wizeguy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:56:19 GMT

He must be the one in the back who doesn't have as big a smile as the others.

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Todd — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:14:25 GMT

I was waiting to see if anyone caught the fact that there are ten people in the photo, not nine. (No, I don't know who the tenth person is maybe a lottery staffer

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DC81 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:51:42 GMT

I bet they're aliens in disguise... Rich aliens now, congrats to them.

Comment #1

ThatScaryChick — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:38:45 GMT

Congrats to them! I am glad to read that a group of people won. It obviously made a lot of people happy.

Group of nine claims $207M Powerball lottery jackpot

Lottery Post — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:25:48 GMT

Nine friends from Roswell came to the New Mexico Lottery today to collect a Powerball jackpot of $206.9 million the New Mexico Lottery's largest prize ever.

The nine winners are Carl and Holly Baldwin, Kevin and Jessica Breedyk, Ron and Cindy Miller, Ryan and Nicole Miller, and Randy Miller. The friends elected to take the prize in a cash payment of $102.9 million rather than the annuity option of 30 payments over 29 years.

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