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$334 MILLION: Powerball jackpot rolls into the new yearReply
In spite of all the enthusiasm for it, the real record set by this lottery sequence is the lowest ever observed expectation values for jackpots exceeding 300 million annuity. For this drawing it is a very, very, very, very modest 0.51, meaning it's not even close to a good bet. Before the massive worsening of odds in both MM and Powerball, expectation values were often in the range of 0.9 (close to Casino odds) and even from time to time exceeded 1.00. Calculating sales expectations from
Jan 1, 2016, 10:26 am - Prob988 - Lottery News

Lottery Wins From Out of StateReply
G5 ... This is one very strange game ... tonight (Sat) will be the third drawing since the jackpot was hit and the the jackpot is still $500,000 ... they have not added $1 to the pot. I would think they could of added at least $5,000 after each drawing. I know that sales are probably slow with the new low jackpot but they should be able to add $5,000 or something to the jackpot after every draw. As I said earlier, PA is all cash and they add $50,000 after every draw and then $100,000 or more
Mar 14, 2015, 8:51 am - Crazy Wombat - Lottery Discussion Forum

Poisson Rollover/Winner Probabilities on the $635M JackpotReply
The actual sales were 342.2M, and the actual outcome, two winners was slightly less probable than another rollover. Note that these sales figres were a little more than half of what they were in the last $600+ (annuity) drawing, albeit with a reduced cash fraction on the new matrix. It also took 22 draws to get there, as opposed to 19 the last time this happened. It will be interesting to watch the behavior of the lottery under the new matrix for a full run starting from $15M annuity. Compare
Dec 18, 2013, 10:12 am - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

Rollover/No. of Winner Probabilities at 550M annuity.
The Powerball Jackpot has already risen significantly since this morning and is now reported as $350.1M Cash. This suggests that the lottery expects to sell 392.7M for this drawing. The Poisson distribution for numbers of winners at this sale level for randomized tickets is as follows: k, number of winners p(m,k) 0 34.50% 1 36.72% 2 19.53% 3 6.93% 4 1.84% 5 0.39% 6 0.07% 7 0.01%
May 16, 2013, 5:24 pm - Prob988 - Jackpot Games Forum

lf you won the Big One:Would you have the stones to tell the rest of us so- Y/N?Reply
I'd honestly think about it. It almost feels like I have the responsibility to share the hope if I were to win say 15million+ hard cash (no annuity/tax BS). BUT I'd have to make absolute certain of my anonymity first. Maybe change my name before claiming then change it back afterwards, move, then wait a few months after the excitement dies down, then I might try to reveal myself here. The hard part is proving that I did win some lottery without giving too much evidence into which
May 15, 2013, 4:40 pm - yoho - Lottery Discussion Forum

Multi State Jackpot FeverReply
350m pb sweet lordly, we got a monster! atfer 39.6% full fed tax. that u pay later in year, that's a total of 134,571,200 atfer taxes any states taxes not in math Powerball: $224.7 million cash, Aug. 15, 2012 ($337 million annuity) - Michigan was 5th largest cash jackpot its now 6th largest rofl. our 228m cash pb jackpot, the new 5th highest cash payout in history, like i said, a true monster! other fact if only 1 ticket wins it, it be largest cash jackpot in history
May 12, 2013, 12:34 am - joshuacloak - Lottery Discussion Forum

$214 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot rolls againNews Story
By Todd Northrop There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $214 million for Saturday's drawing. Wednesday was the 12th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner. The jackpot run started October 6 as a $40 million jackpot. The estimated cash value for the new jackpot is $143 million. After-tax cash and annuity prize amounts are reported state-by-state on the Jackpot Analysis
Nov 15, 2012, 7:50 am - Todd - Lottery News

$200 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot surgesNews Story
By Todd Northrop There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $200 million for Wednesday's drawing. Saturday was the 11th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner. The jackpot run started August 18 as a $40 million jackpot. The estimated cash value for the new jackpot is $128.5 million. After-tax cash and annuity prize amounts are reported state-by-state on the Jackpot Analysi
Sep 24, 2012, 8:29 am - Todd - Lottery News

$212 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot surgesNews Story
By Todd Northrop There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $212 million for Wednesday's drawing. Saturday was the 12th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner. The jackpot run started June 27 as a $40 million jackpot. The estimated cash value for the new jackpot is $142.9 million. After-tax cash and annuity prize amounts are reported state-by-state on the Jackpot Analysis
Aug 5, 2012, 8:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

Cash Vs Annuity PaymentsReply
[N]egative outcome (tax,inflation,collapse of society etc.) is remotely possible but why to worry about it TOO much before that actually happens ? Because if you wait until it's obvious, you'll die with the rest of the everything-will-be-alright idgits. History has plenty of examples of people who got out of bad places before bad turned into worse and did much better than those who stayed behind. If you visualize bad outcome, it may manifest easier, so better think positively in
Feb 23, 2012, 11:02 pm - time*treat - Lottery Discussion Forum