Florida In The 60's (As In 60%)

Reply #6

JimmySand9 — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:57:11 GMT

There are a number of games that have 60% payouts. MA Cash Winfall MA Numbers Game KY Pick 3 MO Pick 3 MO Pick 4

Reply #5

PrisonerSix — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:26:47 GMT

Rejecting Powerball is one thing, but a 60% payout? Can a lottery continue to make money on that kind of payout?I wonder if Jeb Bush is pushing an anti-gambling agenda. If he can't get the state to outright shutdown the lottery, chipping away at it with legislation that will make it harder to operate is another way to get rid of it.Makes you go hmmmm. PrisonerSix

Reply #4

JimmySand9 — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 02:31:41 GMT

Huh? You, want it in the, jackpot? This from the guy who rails on NY Lotto because of their awful lower-tier prizes, doesn't want fantastic lower-tier prizes

Reply #3

Tnplayer805 — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 03:59:02 GMT

To compete with MM, PB I think would bend the rules a hair.

Reply #2

ryanm — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:17:38 GMT

Florida going pari-mutuel if they join Powerball would probably make sense if Powerball was willing to bend the rules.

Reply #1

CASH Only — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:10:19 GMT

The extra 10pp allocated to Florida Lotto should go into the jackpot (start at $4 million

Florida In The 60's (As In 60%)

JimmySand9 — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:03:10 GMT

As we all know, Jeb Bush, apparently redeeming himself from rejecting Powerball, passed a LAW requiring the Florida Lottery to pay 60% on all games. Now for Instant Tickets that may not be a huge deal (as most games pay around 60% anyway), but it's huge for on-line games. It's hard to find a single game that pays more than 50%, now we get an entire state that pay at least 60%! But the big question remains, how will the new payouts affect the games? Will we see no distribution changes at all? Wil... [ More ]