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Louisiana Lottery making changes to Lotto game in AugustReply
Chill out, dude and quit creating conflicts out of nothing. You don't need to be a Louisiana player to follow the money of a pretty simple business decision. They listened to players who wanted better jackpots and delivered that, but at the expense of the small wins, which are enjoyed most often by players who buy in consistently. You don't need to be a math whiz to understand that when a lottery increases prizes in one area, they have to decrease them somewhere else. Frankly even a Cheez
May 23, 2020, 2:32 pm - db101 - Lottery News

British pro gambler took aim at $25.8M CT Lotto jackpot, buying hundreds of thousands of ticketsReply
it remains unclear absent any comment from him what calculations he made in deciding it was worth the risk to buy so many random Quick Picks. Despite the huge number of tickets purchased, he couldn't come close to covering all 7,059,052 possible combinations of six numbers out of a field of 44 Um what went wrong here with this guys mathmatical prowess and probability math? Numbers don't lie but he thunk he had an icicles chance in hell to survive, to win. The dumb lottery officials were scrat
Nov 22, 2019, 5:20 am - GuesssWork - Lottery News

Texas Lottery generated more than $100 million in one week from scratch-off ticket salesReply
And some idiot politicians want to get rid of the Texas Lottery? Guess they use fuzzy math for their thinking. On the plus side (LOL), Texas will never see a casino, plenty of them outside their states. Big problem is a long drive for many in the middle of the state.
Jan 7, 2019, 10:47 am - Bleudog101 - Lottery News

How lottery tickets are helping states' budgetsReply
Unfortunately the money is going towards the teachers salaries, pensions and unions. These corrupt officials couldn't care less about our children but they put on a convincing face when claiming the money is to benefit the schools. Many states allocate lottery money towards these Educational funds and less than 10% even make it into the school system, the rest of the money gets thrown at various pet projects and departments throughout the state. Overall the Federal/state Government throws mo
Feb 27, 2014, 4:11 pm - Jill34786 - Lottery News

Ultimate Poker to become first legal, real-money online poker site in USReply
WTF is your problem? None of us had even posted here. Seriously dude what is wrong with you? Seriously dude, get some help. If you seriously can't stop thinking about a couple people disagreeing with your non-math based assumptions about lottery play that badly.... you really need to talk to someone about your life or something.
May 1, 2013, 7:08 pm - Boney526 - Lottery News

Woman opts out of lottery pool, but co-workers give her cut anywayReply
they won a 1,000,000.00 12 ways which is 83,333.33 before taxes isn't it . or am i wrong again. someone please figure the tax takeout. closer to about 60k apiece. not chump change. finkelstein reader not good at math. no way they gave the unfortunate new employee more than 500.00 a piece if that much. not that they had to even do that. kind of goes against the logic of lottery pools. if they won the 338 million different story but this amount would make some of these lucky winners think twice ab
Mar 28, 2013, 10:10 pm - faber98 - Lottery News

New England states start new lottery game ThursdayReply
Hired financial experts do indeed usually recommend taking the cash. Then they get to charge a fee to play with the money left over after taxes. But if you ask about facts, they can start to sputter. I've read columns by financial experts who forget about taxes and think they can invest the entire cash amount (like the lottery can) or who do the math without knowing that there are annual payments involved (they run spreadsheets inveseting the whole amount for 25 years). This is one area where it
Mar 14, 2012, 12:42 am - chuck32 - Lottery News

Calif. man claims half of $333M Mega Millions lottery jackpotReply
He has probably been playing a guitar for 35 years cause California Lottery started on November 6, 1984 so even if he played from the very first day it would be 25 years in November. If he is so good at math no wonder he thinks he spent $392.
Sep 5, 2009, 8:39 am - barbos - Lottery News

Bill limiting lottery prizes of people on public aid failsReply
I am glad it failed also. I am tired of those Congressmen sitting on their behinds coming up with stupid legislation such as this. If they want to do something..let them work on the sorry a$$ed education system so that when one of the kids win a scholarship, they won't flunk out in the first year of college. They graduate and can't read, write or add. Fix That! Get them some comprehensive reading programs, writing programs and math programs and most of all, MAKE THEM WORK FOR THEIR GRADES!! If t
Apr 29, 2009, 6:00 pm - Littleoldlady - Lottery News

Mega lottery winner to stick with Ford, ex-wifeReply
The math is exactly the same for casinos using dice and cards and the lottery using millions of combinations. I try to use simple analogies because you've demonstrated that you're incapable of understanding it when there are big numbers involved. FTM, it appears that you have problems even with smaller numbers and simple examples, because you always sidestep the questions. As above, your favorite trick is to say that casinos don't play that game. The only realistic explanations I can come up wit
Apr 12, 2008, 2:30 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News