Restaurant workers split $4 million lottery jackpot

God Bless America? He's in Canada!

Duh! 

Thanks for catching that!  I read the story but the links to the Canadian Lotto didn't sink in.  It's still a nice story.  Okay, so maybe he's singing "O, Canada"

(isn't there a Yorkville, IL?  Just googled it and there are a lot of Yorkvilles.)

Part of something is better than all of nothing ..... any day!  

Congrats to every one of them!  Hope they do it again! 

.......and at minimum wage, I'm sure even that small amount is well appreciated.

I'm going to share this story with some resturant workers that I know.

litebets.

justxploring, I read something a long while back on just that subject! From what I remember, it said, "as long as you bought the pool tickets at one store" and then made your personal purchase/numbers at another store, then there shouldn't be any conflict! But if you were to purchase all tickets at the same store and the others in the pool knew that, then you are bound to have a court battle on your hands if your numbers won! Best thing to do is to buy the pool tickets at one store and then a few hours later buy your personal tickets at the store you always buy your tickets from! Never buy pool tickets from the same store you buy your personal tickets from, "that's a no, no".

I'm not in a pool, but that's a good suggestion.  In fact, just to keep them totally separate, I would probably buy them in the next town.  It would be nice to join a local pool, although I'm already spending too much right now on my own tickets.

I think if people are litigious they are going to try to sue you anyway. 

If there is someone here who is a member of a pool and also plays his own numbers or buys extra quick picks, let me know if he feels this would be a conflict.

i run 3 syndicates, 

one my family is in  one my buddies are in and one my girlfreind and I ARE IN.

i spose there may be a conflict if someone decides to sue me for a share if I win. as somehow being in a syndicate with me entitles them to shar ein any wins i personally get.

but you cant plan for a*****es, well i kinda did, by booting oout people who made noises or off hand comments i didnt like. or where slow on the payup, one even said " i cant join this 10 weeks can you cover me?"

unfortunalty none have won a  jaclkpot.  the family ones been running 15 years, the buddies one about 9, asnd started with 7 members but got cut down to 5.  and the GF one well a few months.

 one guy i booted said " wel if you will ill just sue you"

and he  wondered why i booted him ?

"They have an agreement that if someone hits with their own numbers, the others can't make a claim on it.(We'll see if they feel the same way if one of them hits.)"

You don't need an agreement for that, because nobody is entitled to something that isn't theirs. What you need is a good agreement that covers who is in the pool, how many tickets the pool will buy, and how the tickets will be chosen and purchased. In the event that there is ever a dispute (and if any member of the pool wins you can be pretty sure there will be a dispute) it needs to be completely clear which tickets belong to the pool. An agreement about tickets you bought for yourself will be completely meaningless if members of the pool can convince a jury that the winning ticket belongs to the pool.

As Barista says, personal tickets and pool tickets should be bought at different locations, at the very least.  Pool tickets should also be bought all at once, because there will be a record of the sale. If it's a small pool and an individual member chose to buy the same number of tickets for themselves it would be a good idea to break it up into two smaller purchases at different locations. I know a lot of pools prefer quickpicks, but my personal feeling is that a pool should play numbers that they can document ahead of time in the agreement. There is no way to guarantee that there won't be a dispute if a member wins with their own ticket, but the best defense you could hope for would be a plaintiff that can only prove you agreed to share a prize froma set of numbers that aren't on your ticket. 

"What you need is a good agreement ..."   True. 

What that written agreement does not include, it EXCLUDES.

 with what is said above. But as anyone knows, if you buy tickets for a lottery pool, you better be buying those tickets at a different store at a different time, than your own  personal purchase! That way the others in the pool have to answer the question to the lottery office as to where the "winning ticket" was purchased! We have all read here on the LP about the lottery office asking the person who presents the winning ticket to them as to where it was purchased and what date it was purchased! Can we say "Security questioning" to make sure the rightful owner is presenting the winning ticket!