Tenn. lottery chief offers advice to fledgling Wyoming Lottery

Comment #16

jamella724 — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:07:41 GMT

Zero mistake business is indeed the scariest part of her advice since the Wyoming Lottery Corporation is just starting there will be ups and downs. They really need the best advisers to guide them to make good decisions. Hopefully the people from Wyoming will support their own state lottery.

Comment #15

rdgrnr — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:55:00 GMT

Roger that, TTL

Comment #14

TnTicketlosers — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:39:31 GMT

And I will take all my losing tickets that I have in sealed bags and shred them all so we can pack them with out damage.About time we showed up HUH Ridge. We must be kin folk.Dump Hillbillies.NOT.

Comment #13

rdgrnr — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:59:14 GMT

The Dragon Lady rules with an iron fist.

And the only thing that matters is the bottom line.

She knows the state has a lot of morons who will stand at the counter and buy scratcher after scratcher after scratcher til their money's all gone and she caters to 'em with new, shiny cards with different names and different promises of untold riches. And she knows that's who butters her biscuits.

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Comment #12

Ronnie316 — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:17:30 GMT

As socialism starts to take firm root in US we will see more and more gov workers reaching celeb staus.

I cant go to my MSN home page anymore without seeing the word celeb at least 3-4 times.

This is what the people voted for, so this is our new reailty in the USSA.

Comment #11

Stack47 — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:12:25 GMT

Someone like Hargrove could be a good fit for Wyoming because she does work for state with a smaller player base. Based on many of the comments by TN lottery players on LP, the lottery she is running is not as player friendly as most CEOs. Kentucky proved they could cut a large portion of the cost of live ball drawings by streaming them live via the Internet. Hargrove chose computer drawings and we all know the mess that created.

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Comment #10

pcurtis — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:06:05 GMT

It would be nice if she left Tennessee.

Comment #9

Stack47 — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:49:48 GMT

It's not the same as the creative bonus incentives given in sports to players and coaches, but there are some state lotteries using a similar system. Tennessee has legislated what percentage of lottery profits must go to their scholarship program and it doesn't leave much room for bonuses and why I believe Hargrove might be negating with Wyoming right now.

Comment #8

Jon D — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:11:01 GMT

OMG...$700K salary? What a crock-o-____. Just another example of shamefully bloated salaries.

This reminds me of another scandal where a small city manager paid himself more than $700K per year, more than twice as much as his counterpart for all of L.A. and more than the POTUS!

This is not rocket science. The lottery is basically a turn-key solution delivered and administered by the vendor of choice such as GTECH. They run everything. In Wyoming's case, they aren't even doing local games o... [ More ]

Comment #7

noise-gate — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:13:34 GMT

If you are correct Stack about Rebecca throwing her hat into the ring for the job, she made it quite clear that her asking price would be between $225,000-$700,000- the higher number for becca of course.

Her stern warning about this is a no mistakes business should tell those board members that its going to be war if they renege on her paycheck should they start losing money.

Those murmurers were put in their place once and for all.You Go Girl.

Comment #6

Stack47 — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:52:10 GMT

There were murmurs of a number between $100,000 and $175,000, but Hargrove said that was too low if the board wants to attract a candidate who is currently working somewhere else. Getting someone to pick up and leave everything and come here can cost between $225,000 and $700,000, she said.

It looks like Hargrove is applying for the job and the TN lottery players are hoping she gets it.

Comment #5

RedStang — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 02:55:41 GMT

Starting a lotto in WY won't be a easy task with a population of just over 500k. They should start when the pb/mm jackpots are high enough to get players interested.

Comment #4

Lotto Geek — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:28:36 GMT

Wild Card and 2by2 are computerized, too.

Comment #3

CLETU$ — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:24:02 GMT

Comment #2

Todd — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:51:29 GMT

Well at least Wyoming won't be able to screw up most of the drawings when they start off (like Tennessee's computerized drawings) because Wyoming has only authorized mutli-state games to start with. Of the multi-state games, only Hot Lotto has the dreaded computerized drawings.

NOTE TO WYOMING LOTTERY BOARD MEMBERS: Do not listen to anyone who says computerized drawings are a great way to save money and contribute more to education . Computerized drawings only serve to piss off your loyal pla... [ More ]

Comment #1

pcurtis — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:12:41 GMT

Wyoming lottery is doomed from the get go taking advice from the dragon lady.

Tenn. lottery chief offers advice to fledgling Wyoming Lottery

Lottery Post — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:07:03 GMT

The Wyoming Lottery Board received some much-needed advice and a stern warning from someone who has helped shepherd other states through the the complicated process of launching state-sponsored games of chance.

Rebecca Hargrove is the CEO of the Tennessee Lottery and is known as a guru on how to get lottery startups off the ground and running. Board Chairman Brian Scott asked her to pay a visit to help outline a game plan for the board at its second-ever meeting on Tuesday.

The energetic e... [ More ]