When I win that Powerball

[hollywood9826]

Originally Posted by Angle Queen

When I worked (for money), I always joked with my boss that he'd get a phone call from me in the Caymans, that there'd be two 1st-class airline tix waiting for him and his wife at the local airport...and that he'd have to fly down to accept my resignation in person. Never had a problem with getting him to agree to that.

Thats a pretty good idea.

The contract Im currently working on is over at the end of Feb. There is a good chance I would have just not told anyone said i got a job somehwere else and been gone. That way poeple would hit me up for money or treat me differently.

Im sure I would have tons of epolpe wanting to get in touch with me that i brely knew in high school opr while I was in military.

I would prety much turn into a crotchety old man overnight to anyone not in my immeiate crircle that came asking for handouts.

[fundrazer]

Only had one of the 5 numbers and the powerball right. Good for 4 bucks at least.

[stringertom]

Originally Posted by fundrazer

Only had one of the 5 numbers and the powerball right. Good for 4 bucks at least.

Correct PB (6) by itself paid the $4.

[Andreas1965]

Biggest lottery jackpot in Germany in recent years was about 40 million €.

I tried sooooo hard to win, but of course didn't make it.

I would have done:
- quit the job
- move to a place where the word "winter" is unknown
- buy a house there
- buy a nice car
- give about 10 million € to my best friend, so he can quit his job too and come with me. Having all the money in the world is worthless, if you're alone and all your friends have to work while you're living the life of a king.

My friend would have done the same, so we doubled our chances...

[stringertom]

^^^Not referring to your BFF but winners need be wary of their entourage...a woman in Central Florida is currently on trial for the murder of a $30mil Lotto winner...his body was found a couple of years after disappearing mysteriously. She is accused of burying him under the concrete slab of a new home under construction. The phrase, "all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely", is similar to my thoughts about big money...it can be s big headache.

[hollywood9826]

Originally Posted by stringertom

Correct PB (6) by itself paid the $4.

The PB and single number with PB both pay 4 which I dont get. unless you opt for the power play then they pay 12.

Originally Posted by stringertom

^^^Not referring to your BFF but winners need be wary of their entourage...a woman in Central Florida is currently on trial for the murder of a $30mil Lotto winner...his body was found a couple of years after disappearing mysteriously. She is accused of burying him under the concrete slab of a new home under construction. The phrase, "all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely", is similar to my thoughts about big money...it can be s big headache.

Thats why I owuld be an A-Hole. But i would buy the bowling alley and greatly reduce the costs of league fees. Id try to open a tennis center and a bowling alley and just have them operate at cost to give poeple somethign to do.

[Andreas1965]

Originally Posted by stringertom

^^^Not referring to your BFF but winners need be wary of their entourage...a woman in Central Florida is currently on trial for the murder of a $30mil Lotto winner...his body was found a couple of years after disappearing mysteriously. She is accused of burying him under the concrete slab of a new home under construction. The phrase, "all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely", is similar to my thoughts about big money...it can be s big headache.

I know what you mean... but we're not speaking about women here, we're talking about a 40-year-old friendship between two guys. We know each other since we sat next to each other in school from day 1 on. He was my best man, I was his. We shared everything, went through good and bad times...

Without any doubt ore hesitating I would share a big lottery win with this man.

[VaththalKuzhambu]

2 white balls and the red ball got me $7.

Was mildly surprised by the patterns observed in historical winning numbers.

[stringertom]

Originally Posted by Andreas1965

I know what you mean... but we're not speaking about women here, we're talking about a 40-year-old friendship between two guys. We know each other since we sat next to each other in school from day 1 on. He was my best man, I was his. We shared everything, went through good and bad times...

Without any doubt ore hesitating I would share a big lottery win with this man.

Great you have that bond! That's why I wrote I wasn't referring to your situation. These other "fortunate" winners become magnets for skullduggery that, in the case I referred to, can sometimes even be fatal.

[hollywood9826]

Anything over 50 sucks and 43 and over for the PB.

[hollywood9826]

My friend was telling me this guy at this bowling alley where I bowl came in for like 6 months straight with a compositon book and wrote down numbers from everygame of keno but not playing any. He swore he would find a pattern Then he started A week later he won 50grand.

[stringertom]

Originally Posted by hollywood9826

Anything over 50 sucks and 43 and over for the PB.

PB now only goes to 35, thus the fall-off between 36-43.

[hollywood9826]

Originally Posted by stringertom

PB now only goes to 35, thus the fall-off between 36-43.

You can see how much I know.

I just one random ticket when its over 200 mil.

[stringertom]

Originally Posted by hollywood9826

You can see how much I know.

I just one random ticket when its over 200 mil.

In the same boat with you...except upon hearing counsel from a lottery "expert" that has won several jackpots, I now pick my own numbers and stick with them.

[VaththalKuzhambu]

Yeah, the low frequencies in 50+ numbers for white ball are puzzling.
I downloaded the raw data directly from the Powerball website and it involved about 1500 draws.
The powerball was capped at 35 in January 2012.

Originally Posted by hollywood9826

Anything over 50 sucks and 43 and over for the PB.

[acura9927]

Originally Posted by stringertom

In the same boat with you...except upon hearing counsel from a lottery "expert" that has won several jackpots, I now pick my own numbers and stick with them.

Isnt that just pure luck that an expert claims picking your own numbers is better. The odds are alwasy 1 in 175 million no matter who does the picking? And how in God's green earth does anyone win the lottery several times?

[hollywood9826]

Originally Posted by VaththalKuzhambu

Yeah, the low frequencies in 50+ numbers for white ball are puzzling.
I downloaded the raw data directly from the Powerball website and it involved about 1500 draws.
The powerball was capped at 35 in January 2012.

Maybe the extra ink wighs the numbers down enough so they dont come out


So why did they cap the PB. 1 in 250trillion or whatever was too much so they had to drop it 1 in 175trill

[stringertom]

Originally Posted by acura9927

Isnt that just pure luck that an expert claims picking your own numbers is better. The odds are alwasy 1 in 175 million no matter who does the picking? And how in God's green earth does anyone win the lottery several times?

In his 30-sec blurb on one of the news show, he suggested staying away from the quick-pick and stick with any combo you decide on. If you play often then there's more chance your sequence catches the "lightning in a bottle"...still 1 in 175mil but the second time it's 1 in 88.5 mil and so on.

As to his winning ways, he's never cashed a PB draw but has won several of the more frequent, lower-odds games...in FL we have a six-number Lotto (no PB) twice weekly, a four-number/mega ball twice weekly and the nightly five-number Fantasy 5. There are many multiple winners of the Fantasy 5 and it's jackpot can go into the low 1mil range if it rolls over.

[Big_Dangerous]

Originally Posted by acura9927

5th is find a wife from Eastern Europe. Russia is 1st choice
2nd choice, dont have one.

Why would you do that if you have several hundred million dollars? You could have almost any woman you want.