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I knew this was gonna happened. Officials said it would bring more money into the states, when really it will be a trade off between who has the higher jackpot. I don't foresee a vast improvement in lottery sales, just accelerated jackpot rates as one surpasses the other.

Don't forget. Everybody still has 1 more day to make my jackpot even bigger! LOL

Bought my first TX PB tickets while at lunch today.  But I bought my MM and Lotto TX tix too.  I will be changing it up for my pools tho and buying whichever jackpost is highest at the time.

Chuck Strutt is wrong. Averaging a net-of-tax rate of return of 4.65%, which is far less than a 30y, even 20y AAA Muni bonds after taxes, I would break even with the 30 year payment schedule that the Powerball lays out. At 5%, I would be $7 million better in the end.

I always urge people to do their own research over trusting others. That's why Elisabeth Hasselbeck constantly fails.

How many people are in your pool?

Just got my MM ticket. Mega Millions should go up a lot faster with all of the other states playing too.

Ohh, yeahhhh!  Now I don't have to drive or take a casino bus to Louisiana everytime the jackpot gets ova $100 - 200 million! And just the other day, somebody in (of all places) Katy, Texas won the Mega Millions, like the 2nd time anyone from Texas ever hit the jackpot!  I'll be playing the bigger of the two each week, you betta' believe it. 

On a more somber note, too bad what happened to Shakespeare, that was a real Othello moment.  Someone (we know who) is gonna' be put under the jail.  God rest his soul.

Well I didn't hit anything on the Mega Millions, but no worries because I'm gonna win Powerball tommorrow night! Yippeeeee!!!

Holy COW! Mega Millions went up to $20M. It usually goes up to $16-18M. Looks like the jumps will be bigger in the event that the jackpot rolls. This is awesome!

Nice, I just had my first losing ticket for Mega Millions. Will be a good change of pace from all of those losing Powerball tickets.

My ticket says PA Lottery on the back.

I actually thought it would be a little higher...........

Anywho,

I think someone on here said the dollars will follow the highest jackpot.....that seems to be how this PB MM combo will flow....

If no one hits MM on Friday it will be interesting to see how much more it will jump.

The jackpot is estimated, so they're probably just trying to be conservative.

Looks like I'm gonna end up with more than $115,000,000 because it rolled to $140,000,000! An extra $25,000,000?! I'll take it! Thanks everybody!

I only spend one dollar per play also with powerball. I do not buy the powerplay.  Since I don't have to drive over to South Carolina now for Lottery I guess I'll just go shopping there or to the festivals at my liesure.  It was just over the bridge anyway.