WOW!!!!!! Congratulation Mr. Bozeman

...67 year old man,

...won $10M last year,

...claimed $3M this year, and chose 30yr annuity{dreaded and cursed on LP},

...hmmm....paradigm shift?. CONGRATULATIONS LUCKY DUDE!!!.

I didn't understand his choice of the annuity either. But good for him. Maybe I need to start buying tickets like a retiree.

How does a "retiree" buy lottery tickets?

WTG!  Very lucky man!!! :)

Legitimate question.
When was the last time you saw a 20 something claiming a jackpot? It would seem that the people winning are much older- consider another Floridian named  Gloria * 84 years old who won a boatload with a single ticket.
Whatever the reason l congratulate this individual. As " OnlyMoney" puts it " 99.9 percent of folk will never win in their lifetime- this person has done it twice, what does that tell you?
Anything is possible.

* l think he took the annuity so he could leave the " rest" to family who do survive him- imho.

Nobody noted yet that he won by playing the same numbers every drawing.

Too bad he doesn't have that much time left to live to enjoy the money.

That's becuase most old folks have nothing else to do so they spend more time playing the lotto and bingo. Younger people do win jackpots but there is hardly any news about them. Just last year there was a 28 year od who won $35 million  in Toronto, and a 22 yeard old winning $30 million in meag millions.

Congratulations, Mr. Bozeman. 

At this point, he can probably afford to buy his namesake town in Montana.

I didn't see in the article whether he had also taken the annuity on the previous win.  I hope he took the cash value on the first one, unless he's planning to buy a whole lotta Geritol when he's 99.

Led Zep: "Wanna whole lotta Geritol..."

Isn't that how it goes?

I think he mentioned using a different set of numbers on this recent win Todd ( 7th para) and plans changing it again for his next win
At least that is how it looks to me, but as always l am open to correction.

True Greg- but it seems more newsworthy when one reads that these 20 somethings blew it all away on drugs, fast cars & mansions.

No, I'm aware in the article it mentions that -- I wrote the article.

I'm saying that nobody mentioned it so far in the comments.  Seems to me to be one of the most important points in the story.

Very carefully,

after all you may be on a fixed income. LOL

"Seems to me to obe one of the most important points in the story."

, but apparently this group of LP members would rather talk about the winner's age, how he's going to collect the winnings, and people over 65 winning lottery games in general.

Bozeman picked his number for the first win, changed to another set of numbers for the second win, and changed again hoping for a three peat.

Whenever I see the player win with self picked numbers I think of two things. Either he is a system player or he plays same numbers over and over.  Its good that self picks win. It offers something to our doubtful souls which witness qp after qp after qp win the jp.

Some people just have all the luck on lotto.  I need some of his luck for mega millions and powerball.-weshar75

Any jackpot will do weshar- even if its just a few million.

With so many people playing, having only one winner from time to time should give one pause as to the incredible odds we face in bringing that baby home.

Like l said- any jackpot will do.

Old people tend to win the jackpots because they've been playing longer. That's just the way it works.

Sure, once in a while you get some young whippersnapper fresh out of college winning a JP, but that is the rare exception. Typically, the longer you play the larger your wins will become. When you first start out playing, you get small wins, then over time bigger, and bigger. And you hope you get shuffled up to the front for the big JP early before you croak. But alas, most people croak first.

This guy is a winner! 

Really JonD- They winning because they have been playing longer?
I thought it was all about having the winning numbers..we are talking about the lottery and not Bingo...right?

I seriously doubt the balls are going to think amongst themselves, "Wow, Betty has been playing 30 years and never won a jackpot. Let's roll her numbers." 

Old people win more because old people play more. Look at your local lottery's demographics studies and you will see that older people play more than younger people. Also, from a population perspective, people 65 and older outnumber those 18-24.....so naturally more oldies will be available to play. There are many other reasons too- people approaching retirement and wanting early retirement, those already retired with low expenses, etc. Go to any casino and the old-to-young ratio is obvious (except after dark ). The first time I went, everyone on the entire floor was easily over 50. Young people are not as concerned with retirement (as they should be) and would rather spend money on beer and other distractions. Young people do buy a lot of tickets (especially if they're desperate), but it pales in comparison to the loyalty of the older players.

Thanks Todd.  This is a super cool story for that reason ... If he was playing only one row of self-picked numbers every drawing, it wasn't too expensive of an investment.  This man won the same on-line game, TWICE, within ONE year!  Both times, at the SAME VENDOR, choosing his numbers each win ... I wonder if he was momentarily given a 'lotto tilted clairvoyance', or if he has some VERY strong thinker fans nearby him, or what!  WOW!!!  Maybe the annuity with this smaller jackpot is a game/challenge to himself to continue living happily so that he receives EVERY lottery payment!

Congrats to Mr. Bozeman. Winning the lottery one is usually a once in a lifetime event. But to win it twice (although not unheard of is a extremely rare event) I would be happy to win it just once but it if it happened to me this would be my theme song....

         "World Series attiude, champagne bottle life, Nothing every changes so tonight is like tommorrow night. I will       a model wife, Your b-tch is as hot as ice, Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto TWICE!"

                                                                     DRAKE (Verse from Miss Me)

Of course the balls don't care how long someone's been playing, don't be stupid. 

Each draw is independent, and nobody is ever "due" for a win, that's the fallacy of the maturity of chances. But old people have been playing longer, so their total lifetime expenditure is greater. And if you analyze past results, and look at total lifetime expenditure as it increases from $1, $100, $1000, $100,000 and compare that to the number of jackpots won, do you think it will be increasing, decreasing, or stay the same?

OK, that is your task. Now run along and do your assignment, and don't bother me again until you're done.

JonD you crack me up, so easy to ruffle your feathers.

Your original statement was worded as if time has anything to do with jackpot wins. It does not. The lottery has no memory of how much any player has spent or how long they have been playing. The problem with your assumption that old people have been playing longer is just that. It is an assumption. Not all old people have been playing for extended times. I know some middle aged people who have been playing longer than my grandmother and she is pretty old. The lottery wasn't introduced to my state until the early 90s. Not that long ago! So to pinpoint the cause of more elderly wins on the assumption that they have been playing longer just doesn't gel. Because draws are independent, time does not matter. What does matter is who participates in the draws. It's like the QP idea....if 70% (or whatever number) of tickets sold are quick picks then approximately 70% of the time a jackpot will be won by a QP. If 30% of lottery players are over the age of 50 then approximately 30% of the time a winner will be over the age of 50. Hence my argument that winner ages are based on population/player majority for those draws.

Awesome story, Congrats to Mr. Bozeman.

Aha! An admission! So your goal is to ruffle people's feathers and to be argumentative for argument's sake? I believe that. I get that about you LottoMetro, and see your snarky responses to other LP members all over the place.

As for the issue of winning, quantity is what matters. Time played is another measue of quantity on a different scale. The statistical results play out either way. Take your average person age 25 and the average person age 65, and see who has the most lifetime expenditure on the lottery.

Now finish your assignment.

He took the cash option last year for $7,242,678.

He should buy MM tickets for tonight and PB tickets for tomorrow night.  If he did, I bet he would win both drawings.

Most people would quit the first time they won, but it seems like this guy just likes to play lotto. Curious to know how many sets of numbers he plays everytime.

Well he won on June 16,2012  with his self pick numbers and Aug.31,2013--with his self pick numbers----15 months apart---------mmmmmmm!!!! Happy for him....BUT I don't think I would play after the first $10million

"Most people would quit the first time they won"

Do you have any real statistics to back that up or are you just making a wild guess?

Maybe you can explain the relevance of your opinion when the rest of us know for a fact that Bozeman didn't quit after his first big win.

I'm surprised you're actually debating player age, time factor and quantity of wins with people who buy an occasional QP and want to discuss "which state will hit the jackpot".

Yes BKStacker, i have real statistics. All 5 of my neighbors said one and done, win and sin. No more lotto for them. Would it make it better if i put some people.

I always said I would quit if I won millions but now, after getting into the gaming/guessing part of it (and if I won less than Gloria level money), I might be tempted to see if I could do it again.  Just from a game perspective.  There is always that challenge dangling there and I find it hard to resist a challenge. It is kind of like when people wonder (in other areas) if you are just a "one hit" wonder....and you want to prove them wrong...that is was not just a fluke.

But if I won a second time and it was public, I think the risk of people trying to get to me because they think I cracked the code, would go through the roof.

Nice, Mr. B. keep it rolling! Have some fun!

I asked the relevance of stop playing when the story is about a player who won the lotto twice. It's no big deal to me if you and your five neighbors can't understand the story isn't about you or them.

 Congrats Mr, James Bozeman Jr. Spend Wisely

It's hard to get statistics on just jackpot winners since there are so few of them compared with the total number of people playing the lotteries.  A sampling of lottery players would include mostly losers who don't think like winners.

 I would continue to play, but w/ Gloria level money as you put it LOL, I would quit.

Come to think of it w/ that kind of cash you'd be too busy managing it to be playing.

Yeah, it depends on the amount.

If he won $10M previously, he probably got a few million cash after taxes. That's not "life changing" but mainly privides security for himself and his loved ones.

Sounds like he didn't change his lifestyle much, which is smart with that amount. He continued to play the lottery as usual. After all, what's a few hundred a year for lotto fun when you're set for life?

And as for the annuity on this $3M win, just because of his age, it's most likely not just for him, but for someone else held in trust. Another +1 for him.

Jon D, yeah I drop almost a G a year now so w/ a base JP I would still play at the same level.

"A sampling of lottery players would include mostly losers who don't think like winners."

I read where 99.999996% of all PB and MM players will never win a jackpot, but I guess that doesn't mean much to some of our new wana-be-expert LP members. Unless someone was stalking a jackpot winner, nobody would know if they continued to play or not. So basically we have opinions from members who never won a jackpot saying they won't play again if they win.

"That's not "life changing" but mainly privides security for himself and his loved ones."

I never saw where winning a life changing jackpot means a person must change their lifestyle. It's obvious Mr. Bozeman enjoyed playing the Lotto game; where is it written he must quit because he won a jackpot.

There is nothing wrong with the "I would quit" opinions either, but there is a big difference because Bozeman is speaking from a real experience.