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Powerball
PostedCOLON Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:41 pm
by lightupdadarkness
Any of you guys buying tickets? Record 1.3 BILLION USD on the line
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:40 am
by Tony
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:01 am
by Shoalzie
The Mrs. is the lottery player so yes we're in. $1.3 million would be awesome...let alone billion.
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:05 am
by The BBKL Insider
Holy. Rich enough to buy a sports franchise
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:23 am
by thom54
The BBKL Insider wroteCOLONHoly. Rich enough to buy a sports franchise
C'mon Arizona!
if I was in the states I'd buy a ticket
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:43 am
by lightupdadarkness
thom54 wroteCOLONThe BBKL Insider wroteCOLONHoly. Rich enough to buy a sports franchise
C'mon Arizona!
if I was in the states I'd buy a ticket
Where you at?
I read a lot of Canadians were crossing over to the states to buy tickets. Also read online that some parts of Canada can buy them online....don't know how true that is tho
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:47 am
by thom54
Kingston/Toronto , no way I'd make an hour long trip to throw money away!
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:58 am
by Shoalzie
If I win, cash prizes will be a thing in this league.
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:59 am
by thom54
Shoalzie wroteCOLONIf I win,I will litterally BUY players in this league.
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:05 am
by lightupdadarkness
If I win we are all meeting up and there will be coke and strippers for everyone!.........It's okay it will be in Vegas and what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:11 am
by dave1959
I don't understand why they don't split that up.
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:14 am
by The BBKL Insider
thom54 wroteCOLONShoalzie wroteCOLONIf I win,I will litterally BUY players in this league.
I will flip Rosters with scott for a small fee of 1 million dollars.
that's pennies on the dollar if you're worth 1.3billion
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:18 am
by Shoalzie
I'd definitely pay for Fantrax until the league seizes to be and we can have prizes for division winners and conference champions...and of course the big winner at the end. Maybe even have payouts for winning a category. With all the bread, you gotta piss some of it away.
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:28 am
by Mike
Paying for Fantrax? Don't spend it all in one place there Scott.
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:39 am
by Shoalzie
Yeah...really generous, I know. A lot of people says they'd be generous with their jackpot but I wonder how many people actually follow through and don't just waste it on themselves.
I had this debate over the weekend with Mrs. S about how much money is too much money. I frankly wouldn't be comfortable with that much money...especially when it's not earned. I wish the lottery would give away $1 million at a time and do multiple draws each time...increase everyone's odds of winning and I kinda wonder if more people would play if the odds were better to win a million dollars. What happened to $1 million being a lot of money?
And I argued that buying 10 tickets for the big money drawings is silly compared to buying 1 ticket for 10 separate drawings. Depends on how you want to look it at though.
Another thing to think about was what if you played the lottery every draw for most of your adult life. If you bought a $2 ticket for each draw of the week (Wednesday and Saturday) every week for say 40 years...it would cost you $8,320. Would you rather keep that money or risk it for the shot at winning a jackpot?
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:46 am
by Mike
Were I in a state/province that allowed it I wouldn't publicly accept the prize. No oversize cheque, no media appearances. Send your lawyer, representing your LLC to pick up the $$$.
And yeah I'd take the $8,320 (or $26,522 at 5% compound interest over 40 years).
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:55 am
by thom54
yea no WAY would i publicly accept that prize.
They let the pot grow up that large because more people buy in then. You divide it up, and it's actually less tickets that will be bought. People aren't good at judging low chances, and with a large pay off for ridiculous odds people overweigh their chances and assign a higher value to that ticket. aka people overestimate the probabilities of unlikely events
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:02 am
by kimmer
Who cares
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:05 am
by Shoalzie
I really wonder how many tickets are being bought because the jackpot has sky rocketed in the last couple weeks. It's basically doubled since last week. That's a lot of $2 tickets but there's a lot of 99-percenters that would love to win a massive amount of cash.
Re: Powerball
PostedCOLON Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:24 am
by lightupdadarkness
I don't ever play but I'm def going to throw down a few dollars