It has been a while since I've read anything about Brad Duke.  After winning the lottery as I remembered, his plans were to invest his winnings and become a billionaire, I wonder how closed he's getting toward that goal.

More reason to believe that those that 'believe in themselves" have the power to realize their dreams.

Negative, doom & gloom naysayers who believe in nothing but bad luck/no luck, have no respect for spiritual insight, or nothing except what they can only see with their limited physical eyesight, will seldom experience a miracle in their life.

I saw an update a few weeks back on "How The Lottery Changed My life", and apparently Brad is doing well, but revealed he is still a long distance away from achieving his goal of becoming a "Billionaire". He also indicated he still has several million more than he won in "05".

I have the same plan ............. go figure 

We play the lottery because we see ourselves winning some day. This is old news, has he won any other jackpot since then? Next in line!

No, he may not have won any other jackpot since then, but he did win that one, and he is richer than we are!

I remember this story so well, I cant believe 7 years have gone by. It was right around the time I unofficialy joined lottery post. 

Anyways, I am glad to see he is not among those who fritter away their winnings or end up in jail or dead. So inspiring!

Oh, Brad Duke. I remember reading about his win a few years back and gasping about in financial plans and investments. He had a very good team which is helping him realize his goal. Truly, I really do commend him.  He is young and with a lot of ambitions and plans for the win at hand, looks like he got a gift that keeps on giving and winning.

  However,  I would argue against him doing the work to win the lottery , the numbers just aligned. But hey, whom am I to say, the man is a powerball winner and I am not!

  Lol, way to go Brad Duke, glad that the win brought him fulfilment.

Yet another motivational story! 

 It's difficult for me to say that. To me, law of attraction doesn't apply. Things ALWAYS happen when I least expect.

In my opinion, that's what it all boils down too: believing in yourself. Honestly, that's what I believe in and for the most part it's working. I guess everyone is different.

Isn't this the guy that was working at Gold's Gym making around 30K a year training people? Then he won a boatload of money and all of a sudden was going to be some financial wiz kid. lol.  The fact that he was on one of those lottery shows just recently tells me that  he really isn't making the best of decisions.

And just how many Powerball & Mega Millions jackpots have you won,Mr. positive thinker?

Yeah,that's what I thought.

Positive thinking has NOTHING to do with winning, N-O-T-H-I-N-G!

You just have to be lucky enough to have the right numbers at the right time.

So he reunited this past week with his winning ticket? Does anyone know why? Once the ticket is verified does the winner get to keep the ticket or does the state lottery commission keep it?

Well I haven't hit the big one yet Cletu$, but I absolutely believe it is going to happen and soon!   

I had a dress rehearsal when I scored $200K in August  "07" when my Powerball numbers came up 5+0.

Since then I have accumulated another $25K after expenses through scratches, and online games. Wouldn't exactly call those winnings "chump change"

What are you so negative about Cletu$?, Soon as you hear someone talking positive on a thread you go ballistic. 

We "get it", you don't believe in positive thinking. We have had this discussion before. I also believe "luck" is a combination of forces that is 

created not just by being in the right place at the right time. I'm a huge believer in "Karma" as well. I can already see you puking as I'm mentioning all

this. 

Thanks for sharing Cletu$, and have a P-O-S-I-T-I-V-E night!

He wrote earned/won on a million dollar chevk he wrote himself.

Seems to me he sure got convinced he would win, after he figured out hearn wasn't gonna earn.

I agree with Cletu$2.

Do the same things you did to win what you won and have anything but "positive beliefs" and you would have still won.

...but believe what you want, it's a free world.  Glad you won what you won.

I think you're confused about what Cletus believes. My guess is that he believes in positive thinking, but has a more realistic understanding of what it can do than some people.

I don't doubt that Duke believed he would win, or that you believe you will win. I also know that there are millions of other people who believe they will win. The reality is that life is far too short for more than a very, very small percentage of those people to be right, no matter how much positive thinking they can muster.

Thanks kyok!

In this humble forum, there is a vast exchange of personal beliefs and philosophies. Many concepts such as "Karma" , "Luck", "Destiny", "God",

"Spiritualism" and "Fate" are thrown around and talked about as if they were yesterdays favorite flavor, or as a real relevance in determining one's 

success in this game of life or the lottery.

As but very brief travelers in this miracle called life, we should at least allow ourselves to "agree" to disagee with each others point of view. 

I agree and respect your "take" on "realistic" understanding.

Having said that, I truly believe "positive thinking" plays an intricate role in determining ones success in life. Whether that be in starting a new 

business of your own, coming up with a new invention, running for political office and yes even the decision to venture into the lottery.

Having "just" positive thinking isn't enough for any of the above. They all require commitment, learning your trade and from your mistakes,

never giving up and passion.

Like with any craft, we must always be open and willing to learn and adapt from our mistakes. To continue on in the lottery and to be successful,

requires no less dedication, and certainly requires a healthy dose of "positive thinking".

"I had a dress rehearsal when I scored $200K in August  "07" when my Powerball numbers came up 5+0."

There was a Ohio Lottery Buckeye 5 player that must have "absolutely believed" that he was going to win the jackpot because he had 54 winning tickets. He didn't know the lottery had a $1 million aggregate payout limit and thought he won $5.4 million. In PB the jackpot amount is the limit and the jackpot is split by the number of winning tickets if there are multiple winners. It is logical to conclude anyone who "absolutely believes" their numbers are going to be drawn, would at the very least have two winning tickets especially when the jackpots are smaller.

As others said, millions of players (like Brad Duke) probably "absolutely believe" they will win the jackpot too. I don't know if PB had the powerplay option in 2007 but today the true believers are those spending an extra buck.

Brad Duke picked his jackpot winning numbers having more faith than the millions of average "give me one PB QP" players.

Yeah Brad Duke had some serious belief in his destiny. The results speak for themselves.

They actually had the Powerplay option in "07". I was on a strict budget at the time, and decided to pass on it.

The Powerplay number was "2" for that drawing, which would have doubled my second tier prize to $400,000.

I have no regrets, I still won big. I'm in this for the long term, and the best is yet to come. 

The fact that Brad Duke has earned money on his lottery winnings during this financial economy downturn, speaks well of his investment strategies.

Brad Duke stands as a good example of what to do right with your jackpot winnings. Although I wonder how much intrusion results from his public appearances. I did notice when he was last on How the Lottery Changed My Life, there is little to no mention of family. My guess is he has his personal security down to a fine art if he is confident enough to be as public as he is.

Perhaps he made an upfront agreement with the producers of "How the Lottery Changed  My Life", to avoid any spotlight on his personal family members. A wise choice, I'm sure that he probably made. 

I always knew I would win as well.
Our national lottery just have not drawn my numbers yet.

Does anybody else notice anything strange about Brad Duke's winning ticket from May 2005?

I did a search for Brad Duke 2012 and Brad Duke 2005 and found two different videos showing close ups of his winning ticket.

The video from 2005 as well as the recent one this month both show a four-line ticket purchased for $4.

The lines appear to be labeled   A . . . B . . . D . . . and . . . E.

What happened to Line C?

The winning numbers are on the second line, Line B.

How might something like that happen?

Was this ticket a misprint?

Has any explanation ever been given?

He was paid the money, so it must have passed all the stringent security protocals by the Idaho Lottery.

Maybe someone with higher status will post  links to the videos and screen captures, as I don't believe I am currently allowed to post links or attachments under LP rules due to New Member status.

welcome to LP maxamillion.

maybe line c was blank on his bet slip.

so the mach. skipped over it.

I've starting asking that my verified winning tickets be returned to me but they've been cashed at the local retailer and the most they've matched so far is four.

from the above article "But if you ask Brad, those lucky numbers didn't do the work. He did. And luck had nothing to do with it."

Maybe he's believing if he did it once, he can do it again.  With new matrix and price, PB jackpots will be larger and maybe he's thinking it's an easier way to reach his billion dollars goal.

That has happened to me when I make a mistake on a play slip and rather than make out a new slip I void that block and continue to fill out the other blocks.

Thanks for the explanation, RJOh. I had never seen that before.

 Hold on, I just caught the bit about him being re-united with his ticket. So, the Lottery Commission keeps those "valuable" prints for their records for a few years? After they have been validated, certainly they are valueless, I think. It must have been surreal to be re-united with a piece of paper that changed his life, dramatically.

  RJOH,

    That was a great explanation, voiding a line on your slip thus, the printed ticket, skips that line. To a few individuals who believe that he must have been crass with his fortune to be a guest on "The Lottery Changed My Life." He isn't broke, is he? He seems to be well off financially as there is no news of him being displaced financially. Duke's investors and financial officers must be very experienced and well versed and mostly, I believe the man has majority say in what and where his investments are placed. I read somewhere that the man got himself a proper "education" on understanding his wealth and financing. At least, to the point of understaning how his team of professionals, worked for him.

   A very intelligent lottery winner he is, winning is one thing, understanding how to handle and multiply the wealth is the crucial element.

I must agree with the perspective displayed by K Flyd.  The translation is much more reasonable.

I can be positive to the point of delusional...it doesnt change the draw....When the stars align or things are working with you...then so be it. I sincerely believe some folks despite their best foot forward are given hard knocks thru life....SO to each goes Lifes challenges.

For what its worth when Brad won he truly maintained a Low lifestyle..it wasnt til recently he "allowed" himself the ability to purchase a homestead (estate)and a new Aston Martin. Sometimes we simply must acknowledge that we are here but once thru life ..and enjoy a few of its luxuries. As he said ..We cant keep bailing everyone out of bankruptcy...they'll just go back to doing it again...but what we can do is educate them how not to go there the first time...He currently funds a Childrens program that teaches simple economic values....

A man who invests in the mind invest in much. Kudos to him for that.

congrat's to Brad Duke . Beliving , nice thinking , visualized the outcome and nice manfestion. Enjoy!!! 

 " I don't know if PB had the powerplay option in 2007 but today the true believers are those spending an extra buck."

Excellent point.

But even being a true believer won't come between a true cheapskate and an extra dollar.

They wouldn't sleep at night because of the spasmodic twitching of their wallets under their pillows.

Spending that extra buck or two can change your life forever. Having a budget is all good and fine. Bottom line is, are you ready to step up and do what it takes to make it happen?

No large  lottery winner ever regrets the number of drawings and cash it took to get there. Because millions cannot realize that dream....that's their problem.....get over it and "GO FOR IT"!!!     

OK, there's nothing wrong with visualization, writing yourself a check, etc...as long as you don't let an anticipated win or event turn into a prison of expectation.

Using the Law of Attraction alone withouyt the Law of Detachment is like having a brand new Maserati with no fuel in it and not a gas station in sight. 

If you make yourslef believe that you are going to win to the pont of betting paychecks on lottery tickets then that wishful thinking becomes economic suicide.

Also, does anyone else here find the timing of this story a little odd? Just perhaps PB play is down, after a ticket price hike and then a big payout, and this was leaked to the news to stir up some sales. Just a thought.

(Personally I don't think an extra $1 spent trying to win multi millions is all that traumatic, as has been said here, but obviously ome people do.)

(Personally I don't think an extra $1 spent trying to win multi millions is all that traumatic, as has been said here, but obviously ome people do.)

That's fine if you're just buying one $2 tickets, but if you're buying ten then spending an extra $1 on one of them is mostly likely a waste of money.

If spending the extra dollar for power play is a sign of a true believer then there has only been a couple of true believers to match 5+0 since the matrix changed.

Coin Toss, I think you maybe right about the timing of this story being odd.

I was wondering why have some dig for 3 hours to find this ticket for a photo op.
It's been years since he won, and nothing new really to report.

Yep.

But I bet there's a few Powerplay skippers who regret heeding the advice of others who told them not to spend the extra buck because it was a waste of money.

Just letting you know for future reference, the multiplier is irrelevant when it comes to the second-tier, 5-0 prize. If you played Powerplay back then, it would have made it $1,000,000 automatically. Same goes for the Megaplier. Today, the $3 total powerplay single ticket jumps up to $2M regardless of the drawn multiplier. Still, I wouldn't complain about $200,000 whatsoever. Hope you're enjoying that money.

Actually, there is no multiplier in PB anymore.

All the Powerplay prizes are fixed now.

Oops, yeah I remember reading that now. I never do Powerplay, so I don't know the rules too well. I'm glad they kept the Powerplay at $1 though, because they could have easily made it a total $4 for a single Powerplay line. By the way, anyone know the sales estimations? I'm curious if the $2 Powerball has affected the sales or not.I stopped playing $5 and $10 QPs since the price hike, just one line until it gets higher. Then I get a little adventurous and do my usual numbers alongside a quick pick for a whopping $4!

The scuttlebutt is that the sales are a little slow after that big pot went down.

It'll pick up again once the pot gets bigger though.

Unless I win it before then. 

There were 602907 prize winning tickets in the last drawing. The odds of winning something are 3.14%. So you can estimate that the total sales were somewhere around 19.2 million tickets. Of the winning tickets 18.8% were power play tickets. Applying that ratio to the estimated total tickets sold puts the sales at $42 million. Don't know how this matches up with reality but the law of large numbers says it should be close.

for such a smart lottery winner he sure like to make his story known. Hope theres some major financial or PR gain for him doing this.

According to LottoReport:

18,588,952 PB tickets sold
602,907 tickets won a prize
17,986,045 tickets lost
$37,177,904 in PB sales
$3,442,221 in PP sales

The The fixed Powerplay option that would automatically give you $1,000,000 didn't go into to effect until 1/15 of this year.

In "07" when you played the Powerplay a number between 2-5 was drawn known as the "multiplier" which determined if any lower tier prize was multiplied 2-5 times.

Just a correction to my own reply, it is also not an option when you get 5+0 to win $1,000,000 with Powerball. Just the standard $2/ticket.

Cool, are those actual numbers they get from MUSL? If so the mathematic estimate is pretty close.

Wow, thanks for posting that.

I've only visited her site once before.   Glad this prompted me to again.

She has a link by the Powerball results,  called the truth behind the Powerball changes,  great read if anyone is interested.

Thanks again

tks for the heads up on the lottoreport website. quite a read and some excellent analysis. sure sounds like the main winner from the changes are the lotto agency in the various states, especially with the new "lower" payouts for power play.

always good to get new perspectives.

i liked this line

Since TX joined Powerball, there have been 5.6 BILLION tickets sold in the 44 states/jurisdictions and only 29 tickets have matched 5 numbers plus the bonus number to win the jackpot.

And interesting to me if you divide the 5.6 billion tickets sold by the 29 jackpot winners over that period you get 193.1 million tickets sold per winner, right where the odds say it should be.

The numbers do not lie, unlike some of our two legged species. 

Congrats to the lucky winner,

Thanks for the welcome, haymaker.

Your explanation makes sense.

It's always interesting to see an actual winning ticket (or an enlarged copy of one) and since this article about Brad Duke was focused on his winning ticket I wanted to see it.

And then to see the unusual labeling of the lines, especially on a really big jackpot winning ticket was reallly wierd.

Thanks again for the welcome and response.

Thanks RJOH for the  great post and also according to the Powerball mainpage:

Non jackpot Prizes won:  $9,180,590.00
Million Dollar Winners   :  5  (Ga  FL  IA  IL  OH )


So lets seeeeeee roughly 602,902 people won $4,180,590 on 2/18/2012....$6.93 average for each..guess thats not bad if you only played 1 - 3 tickets................. but if you played more ?? 

If you played 100,00 tickets.....could'a walked away with a cool $693,000!   

We have members buying the minimum one ticket who believe they will win and some even expect to win. When they don't win, the reason is "their time will come". IMHO I'd give more credibility to those who chose to get the maximum out of playing the same set of numbers.

I have no problem with positive thinking; just wondering if some players can't make the distinction between that and wishful thinking.

Sure, if all your tickets were winners but don't forget about the 17,986,045 tickets that won nothing.  If there was a scheme to buy that many tickets and win $693,000 for sure, someone would have done it.

Excluding pools, which would skew the data, it would be very interesting to find out how many lines of numbers individual jackpot winners played.

I'm thinking the average 5 + 1 jackpot game sale is one line of numbers, and obviously, a QP, which the websites tell us are 70% of sales and jp winners.

Just a little friendly ribbin' RJOh, to CDanaT's coming up with the $6.93 average winning per ticket.

Obviously to buy even more than a half dozen tickets doesn't guarantee anything; except $12 less in your pocket.     

Another white person wins a huge 200mm+ jackpot.
And from Idaho, one of the most racist/whitest places in the country.
Shocking...

Tell me again how all the big winners aren't white...

And we are still waiting to see the latest winner from Newport RI
who is probably white also.

 Holy Mother of all good and pure, NOT AGAIN!

  ****facepalm*****

Really Hawkeye90 ?    REALLY ???????......that's the absolute best you can come up with ??...Here my good lad, let me assist you in the conspiracy theory....The powerball is a completely racist outfit cause they only have WHITE balls and one RED one.....I know they have spies tapping into the cameras too to show who's buying what for tickets and where so they can purposely put the screws to minorities.....Gotta be a conspiracy theory all the way.  Well, cept for that last winner from Georgia that won the megamillions jackpot ( about 72 mil as I recall)

   Let the winning $$$ begin flowing to us all......Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and god bless !!

How did that one SLIP THROUGH THE CRACKS? And in Georgia no less. Heads have to roll on that one - lol!

Nothing more SOUR than a SORE loser.

 CDanaT,

  For the sake of your sanity and everybody else's. I know we are all just beating our heads against the wall here. Just let us all come to an agreement and consider that a mind not willing to accept certain things, will NOT be persuaded even if you slap them on the forehead with FACTS!

   Uhmm, CDanaT, I wish you the best in tonight's megamillions.

 rad242,

  Please, stop being SO logical, it hurts!

Amen rad242....aaaaaaamen !!!!

  Remember all fellow L.P. contributors...."YOU CAN'T FIX GORMLESS"

I don't know what color you are and I couldn't care less.

I do know one thing for sure though - you're a weirdo.

Thank ya Sandi dahhhhlin......Heres hopin its YOUR TURN tonight.....if not, then perhaps some other positive L.P representative will have the good fortune !!

I think the only "fair" thing to do to appease hawkeye's racial sensitivities would be to "ban all white people from playing any lottery".   

Of course the jackpot's would only be a fraction of what they are now, but if we could all just band together to ease the poor "perceived" prejudices of hawkeye, it would be well worth the cost and inconvenience to the millions of us racist white honkies who have no business playing the lottery, less we offend the hawkeye types.     

Just a suggestion. 

I agree dammit!

Then jackpots can start at $100 and rollover by a minimum of $15!

 Eh, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!

    OMG! LOL...........ha ha ha ha ha ****spits out her orange soda*****

        Oooooookay!

  Lol, mcginnin56. Now that is a wonderful suggestion!

****CANNOT STOP LAUGHING*****

Nooooooooooooo   Ridge, hes just just a deciple of Saul Alinsky

 CDanaT, you flatterer you.......lol.

$100 sounds good to me! Not as good as $100 Million, but as long as hawkeye is happy....who really cares?     

Ridge, that has been established in so many words yet, it did not sink in. Such a shame, the good that such a suspicious mind can do to save humanity.

 Lol, just make sure you agree at a far away distance. So many would be lotto millionaires would NOT take kindly to such a suggestion........he he he

   .

 Just stop! I am scaring my dogs here from laughing too hard!

Well Mac,  after all it IS  about Crockeyed90...oops sorry, meant Hawkeye90

I am but a humble servant of the LP forum. I appreciate that my "suggestion" may have practical merits.

I for one, will stop playing the lottery this instant. In fact the tickets that I already picked up for tonight's drawing, are going back to the convenience store clerk, where I will instruct him to give to any non-white person who appears to need a little "assistance" in life.   

Let the boycott of white lottery players begin!!!     

 Hey, I am non-white. Pass the ticket my way!

   OMG!........Ha ha ha ha. You are too funny!

LOL, one sarcarstic comedian at a time here, s'il vous plait!

   I am still trying to catch my <snip>ing breath!.....LOL

Mac, lets face it, you are just one of them thar yankee racists caucasians that spies for those Powerball Hitler Youth Movement Group....I don't care if you own a color TV or not   ...I am boycottin ya startin now !!!

 CDanaT,

   Oh sweet Lord! Oh my word! STOP! This is too funny!

The MM tickets are on the way my dear, non-white LP sister. 

 The very best of luck to you! If you should hit the "BIG" one sandia, could you possibly think of us poor white folk from time to time? As we can no longer play..........we can now only imagine what it could be like to be rollin' in the Millions.   

Sincerely,

Your Irish Very White Friend,  mcginnin56   

The Idaho Lottery Commission had a promo event at the store he purchased his ticket at during this last Powerball run.  They had  a meet and greet with Brad, and a special like buy 5 get 1 free or something.

I didn't go, I'm sure it was crowded, and far away enough that I'd have had to drive, so not worth it to me to save a buck or whatever the promo was.

I do know lots of people still go to that store for their tickets, thinking it's lucky.  IIRC, there was a $20 or $30 million winner sold at that store several years earlier.

 Oh, but you are too kind. My household thanks you for your  lovely contribution.

  I need to be rolling in the millions, how else would I make it in this cruel world?..........HA HA HA HA

     To all of my white LPers, I shall share the loot.

 LOL, oh my...... I haven't laughed so hard in ages! Thank you mcginnin, you are a treasure.

   Sincerely,

   Your African-American Friend, Sandia.........

 ****You cannot make this stuff up, hawkeye, we thank you so much for providing us this once in a lifetime, "conspiracy" lotto theory entertainment******

 Hello HoLeeKau,

  I'm sorry, I was having a laugh fest here. Anywho, you say, Brad was in attendance hence, the media glitz? Ah, so business was being drummed up, advertising, the biggest winner in Idaho history as well as other lucky winners.

  "It's a lucky store, doncha know?"

 The man not only had a well assembled team but, he decided to educate himself on how to revolve his money around several profitable investments.

How did this guy, brad duke just know he was going to win?
He says " I absolutely knew I was going to win"
How did he know this?
Something is not right about that statement.

Whether the lottery IS or isn't rigged, it looks as though
most big winners are white and from certain parts of the country.
I have nothing against white folks winning...I just wish
the lottery commission would let some other people win also.

Imagine how much money we would probably be able to save if we practiced on a small scale what he (Brad) does on a large scale.

Oh the glorious vision of not having to live check 2 check 2 check..........

Wait....just wait a second ...not only is Mac a powerball winnin',racist,caucasian - yankee....HES IRISH  as well ????

THATS IT, you are REALLY bein boycotted now !!!
<whispering> prolly a card carryin' communist ta boot

Where would we be today without the "hawkeye types"? It would truly be a boring, uneventful world. Thank you also hawkeye, didn't realize you were such a comedic talent. What's next for you  "America's Got Talent"?

It was a real pleasure conversing with you online sandia. You are a real gem!!!     

No need to share your loot sandia, we white folk always find a way to scrape by. Somehow             

Have a lovely evening!     

LOL typical white person.
Winning $220 million dollars isn't enough, "I want a billion" LOL
Wow.

Obama was right. "White people's greed runs a world in need"

A billion dollars? seriously? Brad duke needs a BILLION DOLLARS?
Disgusting.

Likewise, my new friend.Likewise.

   Do have a splending evening, as well

I'll never set foot into a store again that has sells lottery tickets, I am banished FOREVER. You got me CDanaT........you got me.   

 Et tu, CDanaT? C'est n'est possible!

   OMG....Between you and mcginnin, you are funny to boot! Your sattirical sarcasm is the best I have read, ever since I joined LP. Don't stop....You two are a blast!

 Queen - "Another one bites the dust, and another one and another one....."

If your absolutely convinced that "everything" is "rigged" hawkeye, you have a simple option......... just don't play.

Either that or just dye your skin white,  and you'll probably win the MM tonight!$$$

Oh, I'll play.

When someone in Dearborn, Michigan wins will you inform us tht it is the largest Arab community in America? Probably not. Try Dearborn for one of the most racist places in the country, remember the 911 'victory' parties?

Saying Idaho is one of the most racist places in the country is about like saying most black people belong to Nation of Islam.

And oh, the "lack" of non-white jackpot winners?* From what I've see everyday they are playing Pick 3 for themselves and half the 'hood and not bothering to fill out playslips because it gives them a chance to tell a white clerk what to do.

Prove me wrong.

*Acutally the number of non-white jackpot winners is disproportionate to the population dempgraphics and tickets played. The florida lottery payouts in Miami come to mind, among others.

Oh Sandi..Bien sur..Mac il bon marche et "facile"...AND HES IRISH (eyroll)

 Je suis un grand gars et mignon !!!!

I truly believe I will win...one of these days.
I'm a big believer in the "law of attraction" and positive thinking.
My fear though is that the lottery MAY be rigged in some way. I hope not.

I made a dream board with a note telling myself I would win the lottery.
I also have a picture of cars and my dream house I would buy.
God is good and If I only believe strong enough, I know that I can
win the powerball or MM soon.

Who knows, maybe I will be able to post on here soon that
I have hit the jackpot and won millions.
"All things are possible to he that believe in god"

I sincerely wish the best of luck to you hawkeye, all kidding aside.

I'm also am a big believer in the "laws of attraction", and the dream board is a fantastic tool to start visualizing what you want to get out of life!

"Never stop believing" my friend.   

Oh, vous êtes? Trop mauvais, que je suis marié, alors.....

  ....

I'd be happy to...the problem is almost every single large jackpot is hit
by a WHITE person in a mostly WHITE area of the country. Understand?

You're calling Arab's racists now?
Why? because they don't have white skin like yours?
This is America. Whites are (for now) the majority, therefore
ONLY white people can be racist. Non-whites don't have the power
to exercise power over whites. Hence non-whites can't be racist.
In a few decades by 2040 however, whites will become a minority
and you WILL feel what it is to be a minority. Believe that.
Karma will suck.

Half the hood? So now all black people are from the hood?
You're racist attitude is showing through.
Step outside the trailer park sometime and you will see blacks
live everywhere these days, even in your own white neighborhoods, which
you secretly don't want us in.

Get used to it. And Obama for another 4 years.
Don't like it? Go back to Europe.

How true Mac,

 Gotta be positive, after all, we are from the greatest country on the planet. We didn't get that way by concentrating on the negative. We got here by correcting it and believing in positive results for everyone....NOW, lets win that darn MM tonight !!!!

Thanks mcginnin.

Yes, a while back a friend introduced me to the laws of attraction and I have been
a big believer ever since..

Through faith and our belief in God may we both hit the jackpot soon!

Your darn "Tootin" Partner!!! To bad it takes almost two weeks to receive all the bank wires from the MM states once you or I win tonight!

Oh well, what's two weeks.....gives us time to pick out our investment bankers and work on our tans.   

If you truly think only white people can be racist any discussion about racism would only prove you a brainwashed fool.

You don't think Obama's Reverend was racist?

You don't thihk "Let's kill all the white people" Farrakhan is racist?

I would tell you to stick to lotto, something you know a little about, but your who wins a jackpot theory proves you wrong there, too.

You are proof of the Obama 'just because' vote. voting for someone just because they are black is just as racist as not voting for them because they are black. Or did you vote for him because of his vast political experience?

By the way, I don't live in a trailer, but please tell me of a neighborhood that deteriorated when whites moved in.

Have a lucky day.

Gulf Foxtrot Yankee.

Amen to that!   

2 weeks yes, but you do realize they give you $1 million upfront right?
That's what was mentioned before anyway.

"investment bankers" ?? LOL
You mean the same rich white guys who received bailouts and then
got big bonuses?
You would trust THEM with your new wealth?
Stick the money in tax-free bonds live on the interest.

Oh sure, I knew the $1 million was given to you immediately, ....we were just trying to be "positive" that we would be hittin' the Jackpot.   

No..no...no hawkeye. Those guy's make me puke just thinking about them!   

I'll give the tax-free bonds some thought.....or maybe sandia might be interested, she's a sharp cookie......and non-white to boot!!!   

How can I lose?

Take care my friend.   

Yes, in America where WHITES are the majority only WHITES can be racist.
There is something called White Privilege. Look it up.

Obama's Reverend a racist? Read my first sentence again.
You will eventually get it.

You have sunken to quoting Farrakhan now?
Should I mention slavery, discrimination, Segregation.
Ah, so much teaching to do....

Obama is a great person. He is doing exactly what he said.
"bringing fundamental change to America"

And your last statement shows you to be a closet racist again.
Insinuating that when blacks move in, neighborhoods deteriorate..

Aren't you late to a cross burning ceremony tonight CT?
nazi.

Any ideas on where you would put the money?
A bank? A private wealth management firm?
I've read about these private wealth firms that manage
your money if you have a minimum of $10 million or so.
Might be worth looking into.

I would donate to the NAACP, etc...
Don't forget you can make campaign contributions of $2,500 per person
to help get Obama re-elected.

"Yes, in America where WHITES are the majority only WHITES can be racist."

You are delusional. 

Bye.

Do you ever get tired of whining? Have you spent your whole GD life whining? How's it working out for ya so far?

Whiners like you who blame their whole GD life of failure on racism, spoil it for people who truly do suffer racism at some point in their life. You've played the race card so much and screamed racism so often that the word racism itself has lost it's meaning and power. It's old and overused and meaningless now because idiots like you use it to explain why you didn't win the GD Powerball Jackpot of all GD things.

It's now become like the boy who cried wolf, nobody listens anymore.

You are singularly the biggest GD idiot I have ever seen here.

I see you're late to the cross burning ceremony.
Better hurry up, the rest of the white robed guys are wondering
where you are.

Racist.

I've given it some thought actually. With all the horror stories you hear about some of these wealth mgt. firms (Bernie Madoff ), I would really have to do my homework on deciding which firms had the integrity and experience, before just handing over all that dough.

Is that what you would do when you win tonight's Mega millions?

At the very minimum I would put the funds into a high interest CD account, while considering other options.

Racism is real. You're proof.
Look at the ESPN reporters who got fired for using an ethnic racial slur against
Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks Basketball team.
How's that for overused and meaningless?
"Nobody listens anymore" ask the 2 ESPN reporters who don't have jobs
anymore.

I'm sure you would like to call me something along the same lines
that begins with N.

Racist.

Yes, there are many horror stories.
The bernard madoff thief who orchestrated the largest ponzi scheme in
history being one of the biggest stories. (Why is it always white guys?) anyway...

Well, when I win the jackpot whether tonight or very soon...I would
put the money in a small, boutique wealth management firm.
I would put about 1 million in my savings and go crazy to get it out
of my system. Probably party it up in Vegas for a few weeks.
I would then take 10% of the interest I earn annually and tithe to
charity and the church to honor my lord and savior Jesus Christ

It will happen one of these days, gotta keep the faith and praying.

More whining, blow it out your ass, you bore me.

I used to take morons like you apart but it's just gotten too GD boring cuz you're all the GD same with the same GD whining and talking points.

You think you're slick and saying something new that nobody here hasn't heard a hundred GD times? You're BORING!

So do me a frigging favor and just STFU and run along junior.

And yes, I will call you the N word.

Numbskull.

And don't bother responding - you're blocked.

based on your statements....I think I would go  against radical views you state against white people.......        N word ???    wellllll, lets seeeeeeeee...how's  nitwit work for ya ????...Nimrod, nauseating, negative Nelly (get 2 points for that one ) nincompoop and saving the best for last (drum-roll please)...Numb-nutted Numb-skull

Brad sure obtained a huge, multi million dollar, lump-sum, lottery jackpot haul!  That fortunate man!

I wonder if Brad regularly "envisioned" himself living the multi-million dollar win/earn lifestyle first; as he has never indicated to the press?

I would not donate a penny to help obama get re-elected... our country is further in debt and has higher unemployment rates since hes been in office... i honestly believe a majority of people voted for him solely because he is black... or mixed... maybe if he had a better political background... and "changed" things for the better... then maybe.. just maybe i would think about it..

Nice post CT  !!!!!!....I will be passing that one on to a few folks

Thanks, CDanaT, then it has served it's purpose.

I can't se any viable reason why anyone would vot to re-elect him, other than the 'just because' vote already mentioned in this thread.

What we haven't discussed was how nice it would be to win a jackpot and know that no one would try and seize it.

I remember seeing Brad Duke on Lottery Changed My Life. Love the show, but I don't think I'll go on it after I win. I do believe in positive thinking. I think everyone that plays the lottery does too, some more than others or they wouldn't play in the first place. I've been keeping a lottery journal since 2008 with the jackpot analysis after taxes, dates and positive sayings. I have been reading the stories and posts here for the last few years and finally joined today. Here's my first post, wish me luck!

Welcome to  LP MoneyMama!

Best of luck to you and your littl' one.   

Homina, homina, homina, homina, homina...

Welcome to Lottery Post MoneyMama and Best of Luck to you! 

@Coin toss,   great post, learned a few things and was reminded of others,like bowing to the saudi king.

and the list continues to grow, i know some people who voted for him and regret it, glad i was'nt one of em.

Very well articulated.

WTG Cointoss !!!!! you rock!!!!!

Thanks buddy, I appreciate it.

Hawkeye....You really need to get a grip and realize that the lottery is truly random and it does not care what the ethnicity of the person who wins. White, Black, Puerto Rican, Asian, Mexican American, even gay or straight for that matter. The purpose of the lottery is to raise funds to support certain programs in a given state and the more tickets that are sold then the more monies is raised to support these programs. That being said....They have been several African Americans that have won major jackpot amounts, for example the 2 gentleman from South Carolina that won the powerball...one was for I believe around 200 million and the other was for 35 million and the kid was only 19 years old. Then there was the lady in California who won the Super lotto plus for 112 million back in 2007. I suggest you do a google search and type in Black lottery winners and it will show you plenty of examples. I also noticed there was no public outcry because the winners happened to be black. So I suggest that you be careful with your words when you make statements as outrageous as what you posted. By the way I am African American born in raised in this country. Remember....the person that wins a jackpot haves the same chance of winning as anyone else that buys a ticket. They just beat the odds, so get over yourself or stop buying tickets if feel some sort of injustice was done.

 CoinToss,

   In all honesty, we are one freakingly confused society. While the current incumbent is giving us more headaches than necessary, his opposition makes me scratch my head in tandem. It makes me ask, what in the world of HUMANITY is going on?!

  Tax the rich, don't tax the rich - The first is either being said by those who do not see it necessary to improve their station in life or those who mismanaged other people's money, like our TAXES. The second well, let's face it, we are all playing the lottery to become wealthy so, I rather be asked about my opinion on what MY money is being used for,don't you think so? The current president is giving me a headache, I can't lie. I am African-American and I believe that experience should be brought into leading a nation not just, honeyed words. Now, let's go to the opposition.

   Let me see.

Cain - Dear heavens, he was so confusing, even the rest of the party scratched their heads in confusion.

Perry - I am from Texas and most of us, would rather forget his outing, thank you very much.

Santorum - I don't know what to say, I really don't.

Ron Paul - Where in the world is the man? We hear next to nothing from him anymore.

Bachman (I hope I spelled that right) - As a woman, I better reserve my comments there.

Gingrich - Well, I reserve my comments as well.

Romney - I don't know, darned if he did, darned if he didn't

  Now, our current president.

  Oiy gavalt! For the humanity, why didn't he surround himself with a cabinet that is well versed in the game of politics and diplomacy ? Better still, for heaven's sake man, he bit more than he can chew and now, the rest of us have to swallow HARD!  Here's an idea. If you have no clue, do NOT run for presidency.

   - Here is a lesson to us all, be careful voting based on your emotions or prejudices, you might not like the outcome.

 Hello MoneyMama,

  Welcome, and my goodness but your baby is beautiful!

 Best of luck to you, my fellow LP sister....

Hey my friend, good post.

I think whatshisname meant well.

He was just a little too high strung, is all.

The poor soul...

Thanks Ridge! I still have an open ivitation on that Jack Daniels Silver Select for you if my numbers ever hit.

But there is no way in hell that I am going on one of those d*mn lottery shows!

Well, I'd be honored to drink that whiskey, thank ya kindly.

And I agree about the lottery show but I do wanna go on national tv and say that when I won that 500 million it was the first time I ever played.

And that I bought a hundred tickets with Powerplay. 

Cheapskates all over the country will be hurling themselves off buildings.

Welcome Mom, best of luck, enjoy your stay

@ Coin toss, i'll bet my last lottery dollar that even tony rezco wants oboma to lose,

that way he can get his presidential pardon in january.

haymaker,

Good point1

sandia,

Who Obama did surround himself with....not cabinet, but his 'czars':

Richard Holbrooke - Afghanistan Czar
Ultra liberal anti-gun former Governor Of New Mexico . Pro-Abortion and pro-drug legalization. Wants to dissolve the 2nd Amendment.

 Van Jones - Green Jobs Czar
(since resigned). Black activist with strong anti-white views. Member of American Communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party. Said George Bush caused the 9-11 attacks and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes.

--

 CoinToss,

  Every time, I learn more and read more, it gives me enough heartburn to last me three lifetimes. I remember a few acquintances of mine who actually BELIEVED in the man's credibility and what he can bring to the table. My but, they are silent now. 2 of them, I remember, enjoyed a beneficial employment before O's entry to the White House, unemployment snug them and now, they are singing different praises on how, they are worse off than beggars! They have gone from a sustainable income to nothing to write home about.

  My only question to them was,

  SATISFIED?! - They let their prejudices dictate whom they chose to vote for. I remember, 4 years ago, their response was...."About time, we voted for someone who looks like us" funny, now he does not even care about their economic dilemma.....How did that work out for them?

   We are in trouble, CoinToss, I am not denying that fact.

Ok Coin Toss, I get you don't like Obama. Thats fine. You're entitled to your opinion. But quite a bit of that stuff you posted is more like tabloid/personal attack nonsense.

*First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

This one was funny, I hadn't seen it before. This claim is from a fake AP news article citeing information released by Americans for Freedom of Information, a group that didn't exist at the time.  The college aid he supposedly received isn't given to undergraduate students, which is what he was at the time. Also the date on the supposed news report is April 1, 2009...

*First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

Another new one I hadn't seen before. In 1977 Obama got his first summer job at Baskin Robins, at the same time he applied for a social security number. When he applied his zip code was 96814, while the zip code for Danbury, CT was 06814. Since 9 is next 0 and we're talking about the days of manual typewriters it's easy to see how a clerk made a common typo mistake. Or the handwriting of a 15 year old left handed kid wasn't the most legible. Take your pick.

*First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

By this logic John Boehner is the first Speaker of the House to preside over a cut to the credit rating and the Constitution gives power of the national purse to the House of Representatives, not the President. Also if you read the credit agencies reasoning their main issue was dysfunction of our political system, not our ability to pay our debts. And when you had elected congresspeople running around saying how defaulting on the debt wouldn't be such a bad thing I can't say I blame them.

*First President to violate the War Powers Act.

Sadly not the first, also sadly won't be the last.

*First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

This was actually an action put in place by the prior administration and while a sad day the Space Shuttle was a massive money pit that never met the economies of scale that were promised and the several attempts to create a replacement were also massive money pits that went wildly over budget before they were abandoned. However private industry is working to fill the void and here in the next few weeks the first cargo launch to the space station will be done by a private american company under NASA contract. This should be applauded, not sneered at.

*First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

Not hardly the first administration to file suit against a state. Also the President swears an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, not any particular state.

*First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

Uh.... other then the President (and arguably the Vice President) there are no elected officials in the executive branch. Some positions require the advice and consent of the Senate, others do not. Also one of the main proponents of this complaint is Karl Rove who was himself Domestic Policy Czar for George W. Bush.

*First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office.

You are really going to attack the guy for a few hours of golf every other weekend? Also did you seriously add up the times spent golfing of every single prior President?

*First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

I thought the whole thing was kind of silly myself, though I'm not sure how this is his fault? He didn't nominate himself and had nothing to do with the selection process. IIRC anyone can be nominated by just about anybody.

*First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.

I believe that it was Ronald Reagan that said Presidents don't get vacations, they get a change of scenery. Obama was on "vacation" 61 days during his first 31 months in office. Yes Virginia, that's 2 days out of each month. At the same point in Bush 43's presidency he had spent 180 days on vacation at his ranch and Reagan had spent 112 at his home in California. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, had only taken 28 days. In fact by the time his 2 terms were over George W. Bush had spent 977 days either at Camp David or at home in Texas, 1/3rd of his time in office.

*First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

Umm, the White House has quite a large professional staff of groundskeepers, cleaners, cooks, butlers, etc. Most of them are long term executive mansion staff and serve multiple administrations during their careers.

*First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

First she's dead and isn't on retainer for anyone. Second most of the dog's training was done at the initiation and expense of the Kennedy Family as the dog was a gift from them to the Obama children. Thirdly $102,000 was the trainers annual income from her dog training business, not what she was paid by the President. Not sure where you get taxpayer expense from except perhaps that as President he is paid a salary by the taxpayers?

*First President to repeat the Holy Qur'and tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

I actually agree with him, it is a beautiful sound. No idea what they are saying, but it sounds cool.

*First President to take a 17 day vacation.

George W. Bush spent the entire month of August 2001 "on vacation" in Texas.

Babel,

Nice try on the SSAN but even though things were done manually they checked a little closer than you allude to.

OK, who paid for his college?

So you don't think it odd that the junior Senator with the least experience gets installed by Soros elected?

I livr in Illinois, and in 2002, on the heels of 911, we startd seeing these Obama political yard signs. Not being in Chicago, we had never heard of the guy, and the general consensus was, "Fat chance, Osama (Bin Laden), Obama, this gvuy doesn't have a prayer."

Bit of course in Illinois, any one running for any office only needs the Chicago and Cook County yellow dog Democratsto get elected, the rest of us don't exist.

In the long run he is out to destroy the country and anbyone who votes for him is an accomplice.

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Lol, SSAN? That kind of prooves my point. I just find it much more likely to chalk it up to there being a Connecticut town with almost the exact same zip but off by 1 neighboring digit that its a typo or that people sometimes have sucky handwriting then I am to believing that there was some sort of secret conspiracy to get a 15 year old kid a dodgy social security card so he could work at Baskin Robins.

And I don't have a clue who paid for college for him, nor do I particularly care. I just know that the source of that claim was someones April Fools joke. I'm pretty sure he got loans like most students do but was that all of his college funding? No idea.

He got elected the same way everyone else does, people voted and he got the most. There has never been any proven evidence of any kind of large scale vote fraud in the United States. The system is simply too un-centralized for that to happen. This has been looked into extensively in many states. The evidence is just not there.

I hear ya about Chicago and Cook County, here in Oregon if you don't live in Portland or the other big towns in the Willamette Valley you may as well not send in your ballot.

I'm just so very tired of the personal attacks, and conspiracy theories, and tabloid nonsense, and the questioning of patriotism. Lets assume we all are lucky as hell to live here and that we all want to see this country succeed. Lets disagree based on facts and policy. Lets sit down and reason together. Chart a middle course that we can all live with. That's what the founders intended. This country has real problems, but as long as each side wants to destroy the other, as long as each side thinks the other hates america, we're never going to solve them, and then we'll be in real trouble.

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"This country has real problems, but as long as each side wants to destroy the other, as long as each side thinks the other hates america, we're never going to solve them, and then we'll be in real trouble."

From your thoughts I would guess that you're fairly young and idealistic, which would make some of your reasoning understandable.

But that last sentence of yours that I highlighted in yellow speaks volumes.

Because if you honestly believe that the administration currently in the White House doesn't hate this country, you're living in a parallel universe where up is down and down is up.

The truth isn't what you want it to be, it just is what it is.

And your last five words - "we'll be in real trouble" - were in the wrong tense.

We are in real trouble. 

..... Ridge don't waste your time...

 I don't remember him ever saying he NEEDED a billion dollars, he WANTED to be a billionare to have the capital to really do some good. You should do a little research nexttime, you look at an informatiobn box everytime you sit down at your pc.

No PB winner and another $10 million increase to the annual payout. LOL, this is going to be a loooooooooooooooooooooooong  series of rollovers to reach a $100 million mark, should noboy win in between.

At $70M and $10M rollovers, it should be there in 3 more draws or sooner.

Assuming it keeps rolling the next bump should be to around 85M. With the sales from the coming drawing the jackpot pool will be fully funded and they won't be doing the minimum raise anymore.

It's like watching paint dry.

It's like waiting for ol' hawkeye to dye his skin white, to win that ol' PB. 

Why would he need to dye his skin?  With almost everyone here using fictitious names and making themselves out to be whom ever they want to be, we can only think he's who or what he says.  If he said he was red then he's red, besides the name hawkeye sounds redish to me.

Now that's a long <snip> wait - lol!

Babel,

"First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.

I believe that it was Ronald Reagan that said Presidents don't get vacations, they get a change of scenery. Obama was on "vacation" 61 days during his first 31 months in office. Yes Virginia, that's 2 days out of each month. At the same point in Bush 43's presidency he had spent 180 days on vacation at his ranch and Reagan had spent 112 at his home in California. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, had only taken 28 days. In fact by the time his 2 terms were over George W. Bush had spent 977 days either at Camp David or at home in Texas, 1/3rd of his time in office."

And how about Obama, and Michelle  using Air force One, to the tune of $millions, as a flying taxi service? Want to talk about the 65 limos Obama had at the Vatican to transport his friends from Chicago who wanted to go see the place?

First lady's Aspen trip marks 16th vacation in 3 years for Obama family

When Washington became President, there were people who wanted to declare him King for life.

He declined.

There are people now who would love having Obama declared King for life.

And he would jump at it.

Thank God for the Constitution.

But at least he'll be able to go on all the vacations he wants after January.

And we won't have to pay for them anymore.

I'm still trying to figure out how a topic about Brad Duke finding the lottery ticket he won the PB jackpot with evolved into a political debate. But on the bright side, I don't have to read an entire ten page thread where all the replies are made by the same poster.

Actually, it didn't start off going political, it started going racial, when a lamebrain racist whiner named hawkeye90 got here and said this:

Another white person wins a huge 200mm+ jackpot.
And from Idaho, one of the most racist/whitest places in the country.
Shocking...

Tell me again how all the big winners aren't white...

And we are still waiting to see the latest winner from Newport RI
who is probably white also. 

Thankfully, he has since moved on to the Land Of No Avatar but that's where the thread went off track initially.

My mother says the same thing everyday and she still has not won. Every time I feel tonight is going to to be that night, nothing happens. I have had many dreams that I've won, but the next day, it was nothing. Hell, I thought 2011 was going to be our lucky year. I have even taken mistake tickets. A ticket you didn't want or a ticket someone else passed on and still didn't win. I could go on, but I won't. I'm buying one MM ticket today. Surprise me.

When things appear they can get no worse, just when you feel like giving up......that's the moment to seize the opportunity.....when in just in a mere few moments your life can change forever. That's how it happens! It will just hit you BIG TIME!

Hang in there Simba!!! 

 have Faith Simba.........

I've never wondered about the ethnicity of jackpot winners, but when it was won in Idaho that was almost a given. The same is true if the winning ticket was sold in Chinatown. Other than the fact Idaho is proportionally more white than Washington D.C., we'll probably never see Hawkeye's evidence that either is more racist.

Brad Duke enjoys the status he received by winning the jackpot and I'm sure there will be future updates about his goal to turn his jackpot winnings into a $1 billion.

Simba774,

Millions of people request a jackpot 'from the universe' or convince themselves the next winner, but when it comes to lotto there are very few winners, if any, for any given draw.

Brad Duke does it and wins, then everyone wants it to happen to them. It would be nice if it worked that way, but it just doesn't. Justt think if it did, and then some night a jackpot was split 2,323,500 ways. That would be one heck of a reaction by the winners.

Stack47,

Interesting sidenote about Idaho.....it has the highest number of millionaires per capita of any state. Must be money in growing them 'taters!

According to other articles I've read Brake Duke developed a strategy where he picked 20 or so numbers to play and once he started getting some small wins regularly he was sure he would eventually win a jackpot.  I can't imagine him abandoning that strategy after winning a jackpot if his goal was to a billionaire and yet I haven't heard of him winning another major lottery prize since.  I think even he would have to admit in spite what he did picking his numbers and the number of tickets he bought regularly, he got lucky.

" I think even he would have to admit in spite what he did picking his numbers and the number of tickets he bought regularly, he got lucky."

Bingo.

I'm sure there are tons of people who would pontificate on their special strategy to win the jackpot and there are a lot who already have.

I remember that guy from Kentucky (David Edwards?) who said he didn't pick the numbers, the numbers picked him. Ok, yeah right, whatever.

In the final analysis, it doesn't really matter.

Cuz no matter what anybody says, you're either gonna be one of the lucky few, or ya ain't.

Brad Duke said luck had nothing to do with it,and he believed absolutely he was going to win.No Brad,it was a few dollars and Lady Luck,that's all.

Very true. I'm sure millions of people buy a ticket and then says, "This is the winning ticket." "I'm going to win tonight." I remember a winner saying his grandmother told him if something sweet falls on you on your birthday, you're going to be lucky that day. Something sweet fell on him, he brought a scratch off ticket and won. Now, I'm sure millions also had sweets fall on them on their birthday and they didn't win anything.

Well, I'm sure he isn't going to say IF he lost half his fortune in the stock market if he didn't have to. Saying he wanted to turn his fortune into a Billion dollars was one of the most pretencious comments I've ever heard from a lotto winner.