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• Lildarryl

  

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  I was invited to attend Live Drawing 

  It was awesome. 

  Lights cameras action

   

  Held at WSB  studios downtown Atlanta Ga

   

  Any Questions
• Lildarryl

  

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  THE DRAWING IS LIVE AS ITS SHOWN ON TV. NOTHING IS TAPED

   

  THE Daytime ANNOUNCER SexY TOO (REAL LIFE)

  SO IS The auditor
• Lildarryl

  

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  Its a 2.5 hr process to set up machines

  If I can recall. They have 9 ball machines and about 15 sets of balls

  And 2 laptops for that All or nothing game

   

  I could touch and look at everything.  Except 1 thing the balls. 

   

  They would not let me touch the BALLS
• Lildarryl

  

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  The Machines are all standalone machines

   

  The balls are rubber for daily games

  Except for Ga 5. They use ping pong balls

   

  They will be ending Ga 5 soon.
• Lildarryl

  

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  They use 2 different auditing  companys. 

  1 for midday. And 1 for evening. 

   

  All winning results get called in to Gtech immediately. 

  They then  Determine if draw can be official. 

  Then they call Ga lottery headquarters to tell them it was officialized from gtech
• sully16

  

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  Sounds like you had a good time, congrats on the experience.

   
• Lildarryl

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by sully16 on Jul 28, 2014

  Sounds like you had a good time, congrats on the experience.

  Same folks hold Mega Millions drawing also. 

   

  I never knew that.   

   

  Entire drawstaff is cool
• onlymoney

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  Quote: Originally posted by Lildarryl on Jul 28, 2014

  Its a 2.5 hr process to set up machines

  If I can recall. They have 9 ball machines and about 15 sets of balls

  And 2 laptops for that All or nothing game

   

  I could touch and look at everything.  Except 1 thing the balls. 

   

  They would not let me touch the BALLS

  2.5 hours? 

  I bet 2 of those hours were spent on pre-tests, like Florida probably does. 
• Lildarryl

  

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  I forgot all about pretest. 

   3 for cash4. 3 for cash3

  It was 6 in all. 

  Balls were always put in in numerical order. 

   

  Live draw balls were put in anyorder.
• emilyg

  

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  Good to know.   Thanks.

  love to nibble those micey feet.

   

                               
• Igamble

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Lildarryl on Jul 28, 2014

  I forgot all about pretest. 

   3 for cash4. 3 for cash3

  It was 6 in all. 

  Balls were always put in in numerical order. 

   

  Live draw balls were put in anyorder.

  yu mean pretest in num order and live draw in anyorder ?why dthey do it like this ? either num ordr both or anyorder both
• Lildarryl

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Igamble on Jul 28, 2014

  yu mean pretest in num order and live draw in anyorder ?why dthey do it like this ? either num ordr both or anyorder both

  I asked same question.

  Basically durning pretest.  They open ball case.  And put them into tube. In order

  0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9

   

  They say they do it so auditor can verify all balls are being used..
• LottoMetro

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Lildarryl on Jul 28, 2014

  I was invited to attend Live Drawing 

  It was awesome. 

  Lights cameras action

   

  Held at WSB  studios downtown Atlanta Ga

   

  Any Questions

  Very cool and very interesting. They seem to be pretty transparent in the process and it was nice to hear about your experience.

  If the chances of winning the jackpot are so slim, why play when the jackpot is so small? Your chances never change, but the potential payoff does.
  If a crystal ball showed you the future of the rest of your life, and in that future you will never win a jackpot, would you still play?

  P&L % = Total Win($)/Total Wager($) - 1
• KAL035

  

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  In response to Lildarryl

  Quote: Originally posted by Lildarryl on Jul 28, 2014

  The Machines are all standalone machines

   

  The balls are rubber for daily games

  Except for Ga 5. They use ping pong balls

   

  They will be ending Ga 5 soon.

  I hope this is true. About Ga 5 ending soon.

  Glad you were able to travel down from Portland, TN to WSB Atlanta to attend the live drawing, lol
• onlymoney

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