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Iowa Lottery investigation highlights difficult balance between security and profitsNews Story
For more than a year while he worked at the Brick Street Market in Bondurant, Iowa, Matthew Hinrichs quietly stole lottery tickets, cashing in at least $28,000 in illegitimate prize money, prosecutors say. When he was finally caught in 2016, Hinrichs pleaded guilty to two felony counts of fraud and was ordered to pay back those winnings, plus nearly $5,000 more. Lottery officials say their layers of security allowed them to track Hinrichs' activity, providing data that was invaluable to pr
Jun 6, 2017, 2:48 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Top N.Y. lottery winners probably lost millionsNews Story
Millions of people play the New York state lottery every year. None of them won big more often over the past eight years than a guy sitting at two out-of-the-way lakeside bars in Oswego County. Randal Stier won Quick Draw prizes of $600 or more at least 1,400 times from 2009 through last year, according to data obtained from the state lottery by journalism students at Columbia University. It's a total of nearly $1.6 million. Other players won more money, but nobody won big more times.
May 30, 2017, 1:13 pm - Todd - Lottery News

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
Where have you been the last eight years? Nothing but crickets from you. The private sector is doing fine. The notion the White House would purposely leak classified information is offensive. I'm the most fiscally conservative President since Ike. Broke his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term On February 23, 2009, Obama said Today, I m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. Durin
Jan 18, 2017, 2:15 pm - mikeintexas - Lottery News

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
You talk about imaginary apples. It's a figure of speech...but I reckon you knew that and only want to be contentious. Safe spaces as pointed above have largely gone exitinct. Then why do we hear/read about them every day? Trigger warnings are necessary because college is all about exposing people to ideas that they've been too sheltered to have learned about. That depends; if you're talking about an exchange of ideas between students who are from diverse backgrounds,
Nov 19, 2016, 4:12 am - mikeintexas - Lottery News

*IMPORTANT* NYS Lottery NEW LAW winding through Legislation will change Scratch offs as we know it
I started a crusade back in 2015 about scratch off's being destroyed from retailers who changed ownership, went out of business, was temp. suspended etc. These tickets would get destroyed and we never had the chance to buy them. I sent out over 1000 letters through the mail to ALL legislators state city and government. I am happy to announce that someone listened and investigated and found out I was right. Assemblyman Mike Miller from the 38 district responded and acted swiftly
Jun 1, 2016, 11:35 am - rgse90 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Texas Triple ChanceReply
Went ahead and did the breakdown for the Texas Triple Chance 77/55/10 game...... For this I used all draws, pretest and live draws (including last nights result) , bringing the total to 175. That includes all 10 numbers drawn. N1-N10 is position indicator. Reading down,we see there has been 152 numbers below 10 drawn in the first position (lowest number, if you wish), 21 numbers have been drawn in the 10 - 19 range in the first position, and only 2 (both 21's) drawn from the 20-29 rang
Oct 31, 2015, 4:40 pm - garyo1954 - Lottery Systems Forum

Florida Lottery Pre-Post DrawsReply
This is an old article from 1998, but nonetheless a very informative history lesson on how the states began to control the lottery games and payouts to the detriment of the players. Pa. Doesn't Take Chances On Lottery Here's How Math Experts Help Control The Odds On A Daily Basis. By Loretta Tofani, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Posted: April 05, 1998 Michelle Coleman, 39, was feeling lucky when she placed her order for lottery tickets at a newsstand at Ninth and Market. Let's
Sep 24, 2015, 5:48 pm - grwurston - Lottery Discussion Forum

Harve$t Moon Billionaires Club - Members OnlyReply
21 Ways Rich People Think Differently World's richest woman Gina Rinehart is enduring a media firestorm over an article in which she takes the jealous middle class to task for drinking, or smoking and socializing rather than working to earn their own fortune. What if she has a point? Steve Siebold, author of How Rich People Think, spent nearly three decades interviewing millionaires around the world to find out what separates them from everyone else. It had little to do wit
Sep 20, 2012, 7:57 pm - Harve$t Moon - Mystical Forum

Lottery leaders convene in D.C. to discuss future of gamesNews Story
La Fleur's annual symposium draws hundreds of lottery personnel, vendors By Todd Northrop This week leaders from nearly every U.S. and Canadian lottery met in Washington, D.C. at the annual La Fleur's Lottery Symposium to discuss the future of government lotteries, especially with regard to Internet sales and play. Emboldened by a U.S. Department of Justice opinion issued in Dec. of last year clarifying that the Wire Act only has bearing on sports wagering, state lotteries have immediat
Apr 26, 2012, 3:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball multi-state lottery to raise prices, jackpotsNews Story
By Todd Northrop, with AP wire sources Powerball lottery organizers are betting that bigger jackpots will entice more people to play, but gamblers are going to have to dig deeper into their wallets to try their luck. Game changes that have been in the works for months perhaps years are finally going into effect this month. (See Changes coming to Powerball multi-state lottery game in January, Lottery Post, Jun. 27, 2011.) Tickets for the multi-state game are doubling in price to $2 be
Jan 3, 2012, 9:40 am - Todd - Lottery News