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Wisconsin man wins $1.4 million playing 4 identical tickets
Wisconsin man wins $1.4 million playing 4 identical ticketsPosted: 1/19/2007 10:09:03 AM  A man holding four winning lottery tickets each worth $350,000 has claimed his prize, a Wisconsin lottery official said Thursday. Tobin Thomas of Slinger won a total of $1.4 million in the state's SuperCash drawing Tuesday. SuperCash winnings are paid in a lump sum, which will work out to about $950,000 after taxes, lottery spokeswoman Jessica Iverson said. A telephone number for Thomas in Slinger was disconnected. No other contact information was available. Unlike other lotteries that have fluctuating jackpots, one SuperCash ticket matching all six numbers is always worth $350,000. Thomas apparently played the same six numbers on all four tickets, Iverson said. The winning numbers in Tuesday's SuperCash drawing were 5, 34, 35, 36, 38 and 39. The odds of matching all six numbers are one in 1,631,312, lottery officials said. Slinger is in Washington County, about 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee. Source: AP
California United States Member #47277 October 1, 2006 270 Posts Offline |
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Maybe this guy read the recent thread about betting on numbers multiple times!!
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IL United States Member #34977 March 4, 2006 188 Posts Offline |
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I think people do that often. They do not win that often though so we just don't hear about it every day...
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Atlanta United States Member #29025 December 20, 2005 5561 Posts Offline |
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WTG !!! Smart bets...... Equal Phat Pocket$!
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Sunny SW Florida United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4193 Posts Offline |
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I've never admitted this before, but 2 of my 4 lottery tickets have 5 of the same numbers. I once played my numbers and the clerk must have made a mistake (or the machine read the slip incorrectly..can't honestly remember) and then I kept it. So I added it to my other 3. That was about 4 or 5 years ago. It's not the same as betting the same number twice, but when people criticize me for having 2 slips that are almost identical, I point out that every set of numbers is entirely different when it comes to the jackpot! Congrats to the winner. Great move. This is not uncommon. There was a thread about a woman who had much more than 4 tickets. I think she played pick-4 and played her number about 30 or 40 times on 1 day and won over $200,000. Maybe someone can find the thread. I think she lived in New Jersey, but I'm not sure.
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chicago United States Member #3746 February 10, 2004 382 Posts Offline |
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SuperCash is a decent game. I just hated it when they jacked up the grand prize to 350k from 250k while almost doubling the odds. Little lottos that have grand prizes of 100k-250k are good, not everything needs to be a super jackpot game.
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detroit/michigan/usa United States Member #12557 March 11, 2005 34 Posts Offline |
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I've been doing this for years. I just figured that if my numbers came in, I gould immediately collect some pizza and beer money, disappear and wait for the big one to be deposited. Looks good on paper, however.........time will tell
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Coastal Georgia United States Member #2703 October 30, 2003 1868 Posts Offline |
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Maybe this guy read the recent thread about betting on numbers multiple times!! My thoughts exactly...
THIS is why some people play the same numbers multiple times !!!
As Bill Engvall says :
HERE'S YOUR SIGN !!!!!
DD
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Wisconsin United States Member #1327 March 27, 2003 1493 Posts Offline |
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Really...I started playing it again when they went to the new 1/39 format. The old 1/36 format paid nothing at all for 3 of 6 and that was always pretty easy to get. Now at least you get a buck for 3 of 6, and that's twice what the line costs you. As to the jackpot odds, that is still a lot better than Powerball. If I worried about jackpot odds a lot, I wouldn't play. The thing you can be sure of is that the odds will be beaten on a regular basis. The old 1/36 format for SC used to produce just over one jackpot winner each month, average. Even 350K isn't enough for anyone to retire on, especially after taxes. But its a small enough matrix to be worth chasing.... Life is short. So PAY ATTENTION !
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The Mathematical Alpha Geek Minnesota United States Member #21 December 7, 2001 1681 Posts Offline |
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Also, not mentioned in this article, he purchased the tickets at two different locations. He played the same two lines at Piggly Wiggly, 1100 E. Commerce Blvd., Slinger and the same two lines at Tri-Par Oil, 651 E. Washington Ave., Slinger. This is from the Wisconsin Lottery's News Release dated 2006-12-07. Great job guy, I hope you win again. My Self Picks are optimized to produce
the most number of wins with
the least amount of effort.
Order is a subset of Chaos.
Thank You,
Doug
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