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Jury rules lottery pool members entitled to share Mega Millions prizeReply
Quote: Originally posted by Maverick on January 22, 2005I wonder if they will all remain pool members. Personally I would try to vote Kyle out, or I'd find another pool.Many pool players hope to share the luck of someone else. Now that Kyle has proved to be lucky and maybe dishonest too, players may still want to be in his pool but keep an eye on him. On the other hand if Kyle actually bought the lucky ticket with less than the $100 the pool gave him, he may decide he's too greedy to share his
Jan 22, 2005, 6:37 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Lottery defendant: I'm angryReply
Sounds like Jamal should be angry at himself for not making sure his co-workers unstood when he was buying tickets for the pool and when he might be buying them for himself. There were no mention of whether anyone in the pool gave him money to buy tickets for that drawing, only that if he bought a winning ticket the pool expected to share. Too often, people who are too cheap to buy tickets on their own, put a dollar in a pool and want to believe that there after they own a portion of any winn
Aug 5, 2003, 12:01 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Salon lottery winners settle disputeReply
Exactly! Just because you buy tickets in a pool does not mean you can't buy your own tickets or tickets in another pool or even 25 other pools. But the onus of proof is on the pool players to make sure their tickets are clearly specified so there's no confusion. I wouldn't be surprised if most, if not all, of the losers in that pool bought their own tickets too. There almost should be rules in lotteries that say unless there's hard proof that a ticket is in a pool, it's not recognized as a po
Aug 23, 2013, 11:43 am - Pita Maha - Lottery News

Man quits lottery pool, then wins with Quick PickReply
I onced belonged to a Lottery Pool of 10. I liked being in a pool because you played with everyone's money, not just your own. We had 2 designated people that we wanted to buy and distribute the copies of tickets. Our problem was, the nay sayers! OMG too much negativity brings negative vibes and we really didn't win anything. We chose half and half (QP and self picks). We did this for about a year and I was the first to break camp b/c of all the negativity. Some members couldn't afford to play f
Jun 2, 2008, 10:08 am - Kidzmom - Lottery News

Ontario lottery to investigate 'suspicious' $24.5M winReply
There have been quite a few slogans that have become popular in our time like, NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE, or JUST SAY NO TO... Well, I put a lottery spin on them that goes like this: LOTTERY POOL, NO PEACE and JUST SAY NO TO LOTTERY POOLS. I see the appeal of lottery pools...the average Joe or Jane figures he or she could just throw in a couple bucks in several different pools, thereby imperceptably but psychologically increasing their chances of winning the big jackpot. But that is where the sch
Feb 3, 2008, 3:38 am - OldSchoolPa - Lottery News

Texas Woman Sues Over Winning Lottery TicketReply
That's the old scam of coming up with money to join a lottery pool after it wins. A person who wanted to play in the winning lottery pool always has an excuse for not actually paying to be in the pool and think that excuse should entitle them to share the winnings. Wishing you had paid and actually paying to join a lottery pool are not the same win or lose. Before I retired, I had co-workers who always said they wish had extra money to join the lottery pool and was relieved they didn't wh
May 25, 2006, 5:19 pm - whitmansm2 - Lottery News

Ohio lottery pool lawsuit focuses on time of purchaseNews Story
For nearly four years, Olmsted Falls postal worker Stephen Kyle faithfully delivered copies of losing lottery tickets to 19 co-workers every time the Mega Millions jackpot exceeded $100 million.Until June 25, that is -- which was the first time Kyle picked a winner, hitting on five of six numbers, worth $175,000.On that date, Kyle, who organized the pool, failed to provide his co-workers with copies of the tickets and neglected to tell them that one was a winner.Kyle, 51, of Amherst, later ex pl
Jan 14, 2005, 1:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Co-workers sue British Columbia man who won $1 million lottery prizeReply
Because it was verbal, the British Columbia pool was probably impromptu with no thought of giving the people copies of their pooled tickets. According to the story all we really know is Hung who bought tickets for the pool cashed a winning ticket, but no proof that ticket was part of the pool. IMO, I'd probably question if the ticket cashed by Hung was part of the pool too, but I would never join a pool without knowing what I was playing so that point is moot. It's obvious or should be to lo
Mar 28, 2019, 7:10 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Co-workers sue British Columbia man who won $1 million lottery prizeReply
I was a lottery pool syndicate leader some years ago on my job. I would always make sure I would get all those co-workers names on a sheet of paper with the lottery lottery numbers, so if there were twenty participants in the pool, there also would be twenty lines of lottery numbers. I would make copies of all those who participated in the pool with all the lottery lines of numbers, and everyone who participated in this pool would get a copy. I got no complaints.
Mar 26, 2019, 6:40 pm - larry3100 - Lottery News

Vermont Lottery announces new 'Play It Again' programReply
lol - that would stop after the first time that someone from a POOL (**snicker**) - saw that the pool manager (or some other pool member) had won on the 2nd chance option and EVERYONE in the pool had photo copies of the tickets but NOONE had the original (cuz non-winning-ticket-recycler-person shredded them)
May 20, 2012, 3:18 pm - maximumfun - Lottery News