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I think Californians hate Super Lotto Plus
Marquette, MI United States Member #20869 August 20, 2005 193 Posts Offline |
| Posted: June 30, 2008, 10:29 am - IP Logged |
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Why?
Because the jackpot amount goes up real slow. REALY SLOW.
I know that many of you guys will wonder why the increase rate of SLP is slow. You know, it's definitely slower that Mega Millions was introduced in California. Nowdays, you will have to wait for at least 2 months to reach 40 million dollars. It wasn't like that before 2005. You wait for a few weeks and the jackpot amount went up pretty fast. Bear in mind that California has the largest population among all states. It's logical to assume that more people buy lottery tickets than any other state does.
The reason why CA lottery sales became stale is the problem with SLP. It's painfully slow to build up the jackpot amount. People got sick of it and they just don't buy the tickets as much as before.
And there's absolutely no guarantee that MM winners come out of CA every time. I have said roughly the same thing a while back about Michigan. I believe we should pull out of Mega Million and have a $2 in state game with options like Florida has for the 1 and 2 $ jackpot kicker. Michigan has been in Mega Mill since 1996 and virtually all the Mega Millions jackpots won in Michigan have gone all to the same area of the state (southeastern Mich).
(However, since people in Michigan started getting tired of that the state started sending jackpots to Party World near Grand Rapids.)
Consider that! 12 years and nobody anywhere near you has won.
Multi-State games are better for small states that need to pool their money but states like California really should not be in Multi-State games.
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New Member Orange County, CA United States Member #59857 March 14, 2008 26 Posts Offline |
| Posted: June 30, 2008, 6:11 pm - IP Logged |
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Yeah, it's frustrating to watch the California SLP creep up. I only play it or Mega Millions when either of them hit $40 million or above, so it's pretty rare that I actually get to buy any tickets for SLP. Not a winner yet. But I will be!
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S.E.Iowa United States Member #59008 February 18, 2008 247 Posts Offline |
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Sounds to me like a catch-22 situation.On the one hand,people don't play because the jackpot grows slowly.On the other hand,the jackpot grows so slowly because people don't play.You gotta convince folks to play the game or the jackpots will continue to grow creep up.
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United States Member #13375 March 30, 2005 1033 Posts Offline |
| Posted: June 30, 2008, 7:35 pm - IP Logged |
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There is only so much money among lottery players. A state can add more games, but it cannot increase the total amount of money spent among all the games. Since this is a ball machine, it might be a nice quiet game to concentrate on for people who live out there and hate RNGs. Prince of Insufficient Light ~ Ruler of Heck
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 8978 Posts Offline |
| Posted: June 30, 2008, 8:06 pm - IP Logged |
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I have said roughly the same thing a while back about Michigan. I believe we should pull out of Mega Million and have a $2 in state game with options like Florida has for the 1 and 2 $ jackpot kicker. Michigan has been in Mega Mill since 1996 and virtually all the Mega Millions jackpots won in Michigan have gone all to the same area of the state (southeastern Mich).
(However, since people in Michigan started getting tired of that the state started sending jackpots to Party World near Grand Rapids.)
Consider that! 12 years and nobody anywhere near you has won.
Multi-State games are better for small states that need to pool their money but states like California really should not be in Multi-State games. Multi-State games are better for small states that need to pool their money but states like California really should not be in Multi-State games.
Ohio use to feel the same way until local TV stations started covering the number of Ohioan going to Michigan to buy BigGame tickets. They tried to live with them going to Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania for PowerBall tickets but when Michigan had the BigGame, that was too much so they took action and joined MegaMillions. What happens most is most likely to happen again
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Houston United States Member #62808 June 24, 2008 96 Posts Offline |
| Posted: June 30, 2008, 8:20 pm - IP Logged |
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I think it has to do with the elected official of a state's Lottery Commission. They're usually Conservative Republicans and that's the problem!
In Texas, we have Lotto Texas and it moves at the same slow rate and has been mired in corruptions when these, forever-changing officials comes in and try to increase the odds to make it harder to win (and one the elected Republican offical actually said that !!) to ensure more profits.
When the citizens of Houston learn about the corruptions, Lotto Texas took a nose-dive in sales and never recovered since. Those dishonesy Republican officials was deflating the payouts while advertising a false amount it never had.
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