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Successful WinnersReply
Use the search box here at Lottery Post. It is located at the top right of this page. You will read about the Arizona couple who won big and took the twenty-year annuity. They got the last check this year or last year. They are Don Shirley Pence, $102 million 17 years later. May 23,2012 You need to hunt for stories of successful winners. They can be found in the U.S. and the U.K. here at Lottery Post.
Nov 3, 2015, 4:44 pm - music* - Lottery Discussion Forum

Making the annuity option more attractive?Reply
AD: Good question, great post! ............. is there any way the lottery could offer an annuity option that would make it appealing enough for you to accept instead of cash? ............. THE assner is YES ............yes, yes, yes...........many X's YES ..............................!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT, why won't they make it appealing 2D WINNER??????
Oct 12, 2015, 12:48 pm - psykomo - Lottery Discussion Forum

Making the annuity option more attractive?Reply
There is no way on God's green earth that I would ever, ever, ever take the annuity. Everrrrrrrr. See what's happening in Illinois? Does anybody think the state or federal government isn't able to step in and say, Sorry, this is a financial crisis. No payments until further notice . Then it's SOL. You have more options with cash.
Oct 11, 2015, 7:48 pm - rcbbuckeye - Lottery Discussion Forum

whats the first thing u would do? or purchase? if u won a 100 million dollars or moreReply
Same here. I also don't have children and I have noticed it makes a difference in what people say they'll do with (or invest in) their winnings or sometimes if they'll take the annuity or C/V. I've said before that if I did have kids, I'd try to make their life easier, and depending upon the amount I won, would try to give them a yearly bequest of the $14k tax exempt amt. ($28k if I were married), but would tell them that would stop when I died, that the remainder of my estate was going to
Sep 1, 2015, 7:42 pm - mikeintexas - Lottery Discussion Forum

Virginia truck driver claims Mega Millions jackpot in Pa.News Story
A professional truck driver for nearly 30 years will be retiring early thanks to a lottery ticket he purchased at a Pennsylvania travel plaza. On Wednesday, Steven Peloquin claimed a $91.8 million Mega Millions jackpot from the July 21 drawing. It is the second jackpot-winning Mega Millions ticket sold by the Pennsylvania Lottery and the fourth-largest prize awarded in the Lottery's history. Lottery Executive Director Drew Svitko presented a ceremonial check for $91,781,644.00 to Peloqu
Jul 29, 2015, 9:58 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball changing in October to generate bigger jackpotsReply
Well you have to hand it to the Powerball people, and their sense of unconventional marketing. First they double the price of a commodity, their ticket, while reducing its value. Then they act surprised when sales fall. In order to address the falling sales, they announce that they are going to reduce the value of the product even more. They're definitely geniuses over there. Overall, the general trend here, it it's representative, is that people are going to play less often. After five ye
Jul 9, 2015, 9:37 pm - Prob988 - Lottery News

winning the lottery and retirementReply
Patience is a virtue that not very many lottery winners have. If they did then they would still be rich. One of the debates here is Lump Sum v. 30 year annuity . Deeyar948 , where do you stand ? Factors such as age, health, size of lottery won, and more need to be seriously thought out.
Jul 8, 2015, 9:12 pm - music* - Lottery Discussion Forum

Not checking tickets to keep on dreaming?Reply
maringoman, I like your avatar. More lottery balls bouncing. I used the LP's Quick Pick rng and won $7.00 . It was Mega Millions. Good Luck to all LP members for tonight's Power Ball $70,000,000.00 annuity jackpot.
Jun 17, 2015, 3:27 pm - music* - Lottery Discussion Forum

Extradition trial begins this week in $16.5M Hot Lotto fraud caseReply
The Hot Lotto people have a huge huge problem proving it's possible that Tipton rigged the drawing five or six weeks before and then actually rigged a lottery terminal to print the same numbers. Any terminal can be made to print out any combination on a ticket by simple filling out a play slip, I do it all the time since I'm a system player. What I don't understand is this being called a $16.5M Hot Lotto fraud case if $16.5M was the projected annuity pay out amount over thirty years. If
Jun 14, 2015, 8:26 am - RJOh - Lottery News

How the Lottery Changed my LifeReply
Hope you get to feeling better; it's probably from all that splintering...or maybe lack OF - y'know, withdrawals. My fav. TLCML segment was the Motel Millionaire , Jim Gatzke - he's the one who had lost his folks a few yrs. before, was unemployed, picked up cans to cash in and as I recall, spent some of his very last money on a lottery ticket. He was living in his folk's old run-down house w/ no utilities when he won 5.5 million. The state didn't want to pay him at first, claiming he might
Jun 12, 2015, 8:35 am - mikeintexas - Lottery Discussion Forum