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*spin-off* Lottery Pool and buying your own tickets/same numbersReply
So... Isn't the point of buying tickets outside of your pool to increase your chances of winning? ....ever so slightly? Nonetheless... Let's go with round numbers. You have a pool of 20 people and a $20M payout. Two tickets win. They win half and are ecstatic to walk away with $500k each. The. They find out that one person in the pool is walking away with $10.5M. They find an attorney who will take the case. A jury will deliberate and find that the winner, while not honoring the spirit of
Feb 11, 2015, 12:40 pm - WesternRedDoug - Lottery Discussion Forum

You in a Pool that forbids anyone buying tickets " on the side"-However..Reply
The pool I run is the same way. We have 11 members total and everyone gets a copy of the pool tickets. In addition, I buy multidraw tickets every 2 weeks on payday which cover all 4 drawings. I do know some members, myself included, do buy our own tickets and when the jackpots get big, some of us participate in other pools if someone starts one up. Since we know which tickets are for the pool, there's no question which tickets are individual and which are for the pool. If an individual win
Feb 10, 2015, 1:31 pm - PrisonerSix - Lottery Discussion Forum

You in a Pool that forbids anyone buying tickets " on the side"-However..Reply
Dang, you know that probably happens more often than not. But no way any lawsuit would stand any ground. Unless the pool had everyone sign a notarized contractual agreement (even then you can probably hire a team of lawyers to defend yourself) there's no ground the rest of the pool to stand on. I'm guessing the pool probably already has people playing on the side. It's your own money and you are not sharing with the pool so you don't have to share the winnings.
Feb 9, 2015, 11:18 pm - nist7seven - Lottery Discussion Forum

(Just For fun)- You part of a pool where one of the members decides...Reply
One individual cannot change the terms of an agreement unless there's a meeting of the minds with all parties involved. The reason lottery pools are such a problem is that most don't spell out the terms of the agreement. If the pool administrator or his designated ticket buyer buys extra tickets using the extra contribution they've implicitly agreed to the new terms. There's a chance they could win a lawsuit, but there's a chance it would cost them as much to win it as it would to just pay
Jun 27, 2014, 8:32 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

How do I properly run an online lottery pool?
I have an idea to create a free forum online for my my very own (and probably first ever) lottery pool for mega millions. The idea is that instead of discussing a topic(s) with other members like on a typical forum, members register on my forum and basically just state weather they want to join the pool or not and post pictures of the tickets they bought before each drawing (as proof, if someone's ticket wins, that that person owns the ticket so that nobody can claim THEY bought the winning tick
Dec 14, 2013, 7:31 am - iwantthejackpot - Lottery Discussion Forum

if invited to join a lottery pool at work: would you or not?Reply
Or at the very least not letting cheapskates join in the first place. Lottery pools attract cheapskates like thoses who want to cover a lot of chances for winning for only a dollar. They were in the work pools trying to convince everyone in the pool if they won a jackpot on their own then they were obligated to share with everyone in the pool since they had shared the cost of the pool with them. I made it clear to everyone that I always spent a few dollar playing the lotteries before I join
Dec 9, 2013, 7:07 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

With new MM will some people buy 15 tickets hoping to get Powerball number?Reply
You're correct, it only pays 1 dollar, but then if you happen to match three numbers in the other set drawn, then you'd win a nice prize. In my office pool, when we play PB, I cover as many of the 35 PB's as I can. (Sometimes we dont have enough people in the pool cover all 35 PB's.) Last time we played, we won 4 bucks because we had the PB, but if we happened to have 3 white balls along with the red PB, then we'd have won $100. As for the four bucks we won, it's going to buy two additio
Oct 29, 2013, 2:41 am - GiveFive - Lottery Discussion Forum

if you joined a pool, did you vet the other players for honesty before jumping in feet first?Reply
The past honesty of the people in the pool is meaningless. Everybody who ever did something dishonest was honest until the first time they did something dishonest. If I was making a list of reasons for being dishonest, keeping millions of dollars would certainly have to be somewhere close to the top. Besides, how do you know that somebody doesn't just seem honest because they're clever about their dishonesty? What does matter is having a good set of written rules that anticipate potential pro
Apr 7, 2013, 6:50 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
even for a free 5000 MM ticket pool entry......... You've never mentioned that before. I never strategize about a 5000 lines pool for any lottery because of the potential loss. $20-$30 is my acceptable range of loss. I've not only worked on reducing the number pool to 40 or less but the positions of the numbers in the following drawing which seems to be making my picks even more effective. Good luck on your 5000 MM ticket pool.
Nov 8, 2012, 11:19 am - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Do some number combinations have better odds?Reply
All roads lead to a JP RJOh, Im all for any ideas you want to try.......... My whole idea from the beginning was to start with a pool that holds the winning numbers. Example: if it takes 10 draws to hit with a pool of 28 numbers, the odd of winning with ANY of the lines are 4 times BETTER ODDS because a pool of 28 has 40 times less combinations than a 56 number pool
Oct 20, 2012, 3:13 pm - Ronnie316 - Lottery Discussion Forum