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    <title>Calif. Lottery hops on raffle bandwagon</title>
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      <title>Comment #4</title>
      <link>http://www.lotterypost.com/news/149130/753840</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:05:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>qutgnt</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[California is under the false impression that people are turned off by the 20 dollar price tag, but they almost are forcing you to buy 4 so you get 1 free. Another case of the old bait and switch. Until an El Gordo like 70% payback raffle hits the US forget it. Sure your odds in most of these raffles is 125k to 1 to win the grand prize but at 20 dollars a ticket its 2.5 million to every dollar. Almost lotto like.]]></description>
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      <link>http://www.lotterypost.com/news/149130/753735</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:56:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[I agree, which is why I made a point of mentioing that fact in the news story.  I haven't seen any other news story mention that fact, let's see if they pick up on it now.]]></description>
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      <link>http://www.lotterypost.com/news/149130/753713</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:35:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>DoubleDown</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[I wouldn't play it- not enough lower tier prizes.<br /><br />One of the reasons I played GA, SC and FL raffle was the large number of $1000 prizes.]]></description>
      <category>DoubleDown</category>
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      <title>Comment #1</title>
      <link>http://www.lotterypost.com/news/149130/753707</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:24:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>wizeguy</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[May the game sellout fast so that all 10 million dollar prizes are drawn. Good luck to all Lottery Post members who play]]></description>
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      <title>Calif. Lottery hops on raffle bandwagon</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:52:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[With Million Dollar Raffle, California becomes the latest state lottery to introduce a raffle-style game.<br /><br />The new game, which goes on sale February 5th, gives players the best odds of winning a million dollars of any game ever offered by the California Lottery.<br /><br />Million Dollar Raffle is played like a typical raffle type draw game that many people have already experienced.<br /><br />The game will have a maximum of 5 million unique (7 digit) raffle numbers available for sale to players for $5 per n... [&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lotterypost.com/news/149130">More</a>&nbsp;]]]></description>
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