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Running an office Powerball pool is discouragingReply
You should be doing 50 times better than when you were only buying 1 ticket. Winning a $100 or less may be discouraging and matching 5/5 or better may be a dream. but if you ever match 4/4+1 for $10,000 it could be a nightmare. One person has to claim it and pay the taxes while the pool members may want to split the prize before taxes or after a minimum allowance for taxes. If the person claiming the win is in a higher tax bracket then he has to depend on the pool members kicking in some extr
Mar 10, 2008, 12:57 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Man accused of stealing $10,000 lottery ticket from co-workersReply
In this case he actually cheated the other players and got caught stealing. I wonder what would happen if one person out of group of 20 or 30 won the jackpot on tickets they bought for themselves. I don't think most people would expect a huge gift unless it was known they gave 2 or 3 other players a half million. In large pools, the only one that actually knows all the players is the person running it so many of them might expect him to hand them some money. So the problem might not be sharin
Mar 7, 2008, 2:15 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Michigan lawmaker wins $2M lottery jackpotNews Story
A Michigan lawmaker has won a $2 million lottery jackpot. Southgate Democrat Barb Farrah won the prize during Friday's game between the Detroit Pistons and the Milwaukee Bucks at The Palace of Auburn Hills. She randomly was selected from a pool of five finalists. It's a nice financial cushion for Farrah. She is serving her last year in the state House of Representatives and can't run again because of term limits. All the finalists were picked from a pool of 875 people who had bought $2
Feb 25, 2008, 2:54 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Close Call Ouch!Reply
Heck, I've been closer - twice - and the kicker is: the number I missed on ? The one that actually did hit was in the pool of four numbers I had to choose from, I chose wrong. And before everyone says 'why didn't you wheel those 4 numbers ?', the answer is because I DID wheel some of the other numbers in my selection, but you just can't wheel everything - I follow a discipline of no more than 10 games per draw. I've done 15-20-40 games years ago, and I have done NO better than when I just do
Feb 14, 2008, 1:15 pm - guesser - Jackpot Games Forum

POLL: Breaking the codeReply
Breaking the code! ... I always thought this would make a great movie .. A Howard Hughes type millionaire goes thru something like a bad love life and a failure of a new invention project and looses (his/her) mind and ends up delusional on the streets and lives in a cardboard box not even knowing who he is anymore. Eventually meeting up with other down on their luck types in a mission house who are all doing a pool for the lottery from street donations they collect. (He/she) befriends several di
Dec 30, 2007, 10:07 pm - Skoaler - Lottery Discussion Forum

Year-old Indiana Lottery jackpot finally wonReply
With over one year before it has been won there could be a couple reasons. The jackpot pool money could have been put into an interest bearing account after each draw until the jackpot is won. Could be there was not much lower tier prize money paid out and that money was added to the next jackpot pool.
Nov 15, 2007, 2:09 pm - JAP69 - Lottery News

Pot Size Prediction?Reply
The court's decison couldn't possibly have been a surprise to either lawyer, unless perhaps there had been an agreement that the new member wouldn't get a full share. Even then I don't think it would be surprising when the court ruled that the previous drawings were all distincts events that were done with, and each member deserved a share in proportion to their contribution for the winning drawing. My money says their lawyer was charging by the hour. Splitting the winnings based on each person
Oct 24, 2007, 2:02 pm - KY Floyd - Jackpot Games Forum

Who Is Really Going To Teach You How To Win??Reply
There are 3003 possible combinations using 15 numbers and only one can have all 5 numbers so any reduction no matter how sophisticated it looks can eliminate that one combo. Wheels are a good way to play a large group of numbers in Pick-5 or Pick-6 games as long as you understand most of your combos can't win anything because only 5 or 6 numbers are drawn. That's one of the false security of wheeling. Your chances of having all five winning numbers from a pool of 39 in a group of 15 is sli
Jul 9, 2007, 9:55 pm - RJOh - Lottery Systems Forum

why is 3 of 5 and 3 of 6 averageReply
Well, first thing to consider is that MOST games don't have 2/5 or 2/6 prizes, so the 3/5 and 3/6 hits that you're seeing are mostly the minimum you must match in order to actually receive a prize. Since it's the easiest to match(in order to win A prize), you can expect it to be the most common. Now as far as the difference between 3/5 and 4/5 or 3/6 and 4/6 depends on the matrix of the game being played. 4/5 actually is a bit harder than 3/5 because of the size of the pool that remains even aft
Jul 5, 2007, 10:32 pm - Guru101 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Just curious, but does anybody know...Reply
It's hard to believe how many people have misunderstood and/or misinterpreted my posts. First of all, this system guarantees AT LEAST a $3.00 win, not just a $3.00 win. And I have won more than just $3.00 per draw using this system. And I don't play the same number each time with a different powerball. I play a Quick Pick of the white balls with each Powerball. And the lottery pool that I manage has 8 to 10 people in it with each throwing in $5.00 each. Any extra tickets over the first 42 are pu
Jun 19, 2007, 10:50 am - ArtVandalay - Lottery Systems Forum