I've been playing the lottery for 20 years and the lottery officials took thousands of dollars from me for a hope and a dream like millions of us around the globe. I truly hope I win big some day!! If at worst I can get all my money back I put into it. I'm never giving up. I truly believe persistent is the key. Like my grandma always said "IF IT DOESN'T CHALLENGE YOU THEN IT WON'T CHANGE YOU" one of the truest statements I ever heard. Let that sink in folks.

Is this an omen?

been playing same set of ages n birthdays for a month

went to get a QP and PB gv me the last 5 nbrs I already played on a separate multi draw ticket

the new tkt just chins the 1st number to an 8 instead of a 5

the 8 represents sibling bday 

now I gotta keep playing both sets

Don't get me started on omens this morning, Enreval

I just had a bad one pop up on me while browsing countrylifedreams.com a few mins  ago 

Just saying how QP chnged the 5 to an 8

the way life moves around is strange 

we will nvr be able to figure it out

it's all abt timing

On the last drawing I went board and won $4!  First Powerball win in nearly 3 years!

Let The Good Times Roll.

Although I never met her, I do know that "Grandma WildBill78" was a smart lady.

Persistence is definitely the key.  How many times have you read about the multi-million dollar winner that said at the press conference "I've played the lottery for many years but I never won anything but small prizes"....  All of the big winners  have that in common.  G5

What bank do billionaires put their money in?

JP Morgan Private Bank is especially known for their investment services, which makes them a great option for those with a lot of money in their account. With JP Morgan, each client is given access to a panel of experts.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2011/01/05/how-to-cash-a-1-3-billion-check/?sh=538c894e1b81

A winner who chooses the cash option would receive a lump-sum $643.7 million — more than a half-billion dollars in cash!

Well yes, but not really.  Not after Uncle Sam takes his 37% cut.  But even so, what's left for the winner after taxes are paid would still make them what the finance industry classifies as  an "Ultra High Net Worth Individual".  A UHNWI has 30 million or more in liquid assets available for investment.  And for sure, there aren't many UHNWI's on the planet.  G5

And unless you have the minimum amount of money required to put into your account, you wont be doing any business with The JP Morgan Private Bank.  G5

Largest jackpot was in alignment with the eclipse season, i believe this one will go until the eclipse on 10/14.

yup, after taxes that is 238,169,000 million dollars, still an amazing amount of money to have. The other option is to go with the annuity payout for 1.4 bill which is 70 mill for 20 years. But a lot can happen in 20 years so most take the cash,

that's 4 more drawings, looks like it's jumping 200 mil each time. That would put it at 2.2 billion, it won't get that far,

I wasn't sure what the required minimum deposit for JP Morgan's Private Bank is these days so I Googled it.

It's 10 million dollars.  G5

PS The term 'Private Bank' is unfamiliar to many people.  If it's unfamiliar to you it's probably because you're not a multimillionaire.

"minimum 10 mil" I get the feeling it does not come with a gas rebate card,

Anyone with 238.2 million dollars has 8 times more wealth than what most financial institutions would typically classify an investor as being an Ultra High Net Worth individual. Most UHNWI's have a large portion of their investments in real estate. They own multiple mansions scattered all over the world. Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein owned an island in The Caribbean as well as a mansion in Palm Beach Florida..   

30 million is just a standard, it's not a hard and fast rule.  UHNWI can and does mean different things to different banks. Also, it's 30 million dollars of liquid (net) assets.  People that are worth 30 million but who only have 5 million in available/liquid assets to invest, would be classified as very high net worth individuals.

If there's a single winner of the jackpot next Saturday night, they will instantly enter a world that they very likely have zero experience with.....  G5

True but it sure does come with fantastic perks not available to those who don't have 10 million.  G5

Rescue ticket purchase around 0530 didn't come in!!

The Kentucky PB/PP ticket was sold on-line!  Wrote back to a co-worker about that and it automatically went to KLC so no doubt they'll write back and tell me where the ticket was sold.   Didn't bother with on-line this time around.

Goodbye 1995 Honda Accord.  Hello Subaru WRX STI

Good luck all LP readers

goodbye scooter, not gonna act like I'll miss u, cause trying to get you up to 55 on the highway was something else! 

Got my Power ball ticket with Power play and matched 3 numbers for a $14 win.

Hence my screen name!

"A winner who chooses the cash option would receive a lump-sum $643.7 million — more than a half-billion dollars in cash! -- more than a half-billion dollars in cash!

Well yes, but not really.  Not after Uncle Sam takes his 37% cut."

The 24% withholding would knock it down to a hair over $489 million, so you wouldn't even see a check for half a billion and be able to have that much in the bank for an afternoon. Another $14.4 million would let you at least handle a (fake, giant) check for half a billion and have that much in the bank until you send the IRS more money. Assuming you don't lose any to state withholding, of course.

"i believe this one will go until the eclipse on 10/14 "

There's about a 60% chance this on will roll, but but as of now there's only about a 1 in 3 chance it will roll past next Monday. As a very rough figure (I'm not going to  make much of a guess how big it would get) the chance of rolling again next Wednesday is perhaps 1 in 5 or 1 in 6. If it does manage I'd think we'd see a legitimate record and a cash value over a billion.

"the annuity payout for 1.4 bill which is 70 mill for 20 years. "

Not for over 20 years, now. The annuity is a graduated payment over 30 years, and the first installment would be about $21 million (before taxes, of course).

"trying to get you up to 55 on the highway"

Maybe you'll match at least 4+1 so you can afford the helmet you need.

Here is what I think is going to happen.   no hit sat,   $1.6,  18 2.1 2.4

In addition to my history with JP Morgan not being a pleasant one, I know they just settled the trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein, thus whoever folks seek to work with it is good to check them out as there are others who may be a better fit.

You should also look into the background on financial planners as well...
(my former planner had major strikes against them for illegal activities, nothing that harmed me but I don't do anything with them anymore).

Always good to do a background check on anyone handling your money.

I can assure you if I hit it I won't be buying any pet alligators

well here we go hope there lot of winners or im done lottery

The 2bil hit on Wed and the one in Jul

thinkin Monday 

for $1.602

Cash Value take home after taxes....$405.5 million......Has such a wonderful ring to it 

That guy was oddly entertaining. Surprised he has not been in the news again.

Ooh yes it does.

I would just take it all and put it into 12 month T.Bills at 5.4% PA for a return of 13.7M a year after taxes.

I don't need a 47M sprawling house, am ok with a 1M upgrade 😜

That is so much money, for real.

Many so called "experts" can't agree on what to do with a windfall so who knows what the answer is?

Man people must be bored of the big jackpots!

It looks like the cash amount for tmrw is being reduced to 614 from 643. 

Estimated sales for tmrw drawing is $219M. If it rolls its going to 1.55B annuity with $679 cash and estimated sales for that one are $185M

I want to see a record cash value now that people are getting fatigued on ticket purchases.

I noticed that. I remember a ptevious drawing when the advertised estimate was larger than the final payout, when it's usually the other way around. They are just being cautious.

I wonder if he wasn't the one trying to bring his pet alligator into a Philly game by claiming it to be his support animal.  Apparently they are legal in Pa.

the answer is simple enough :

if you have your head soldered on straight and the proper mind set 

anything is possible, but somewhat unlikely 

Wildbill78

Do the lottery officials take the money from you or did you willingly give it to them?

Everybody has their back on Mega Millions, so am going to sneak in, grab a ticket and thrown in the Megaplier and see if I can scuttle away with the 98M before anybody notices 🤣🤣🤣

I am totally ok with 98M, I don't mind 405M, but 98M is just as good 😁

I have 2 MM tickets as well. That prize would be good too.

Has anyone noticed that the Jackpot stayed the same at $1.40 Billion, but the Cash Value was decreased from $643.7 Million down to $614.0 Million?

Has the interest rate gone up?

Higher interest rate means less cash needed to earn same amount.

Bought tickets for mega millions power ball and megabucks doubler for my home state of Massachusetts. If I am lucky enough to hit any of these jackpots will go through with a lawyer and trust or llc to submit the win! Would rather be anonymous than out in public!

Meaning that the 405M will drop to 386M. Not good but not bad either.

Refresh memory since I don't do Season tickets anymore from Massachusetts.

Had read Megabucks Doubler will change, getting rid of the Doubler name and add a day and I think it said change the matrix.  As long as they stay with mechanical balls all is good!

They're changing the number of days, doubling the price of the ticket to $2, and only having 44 balls instead of 49.  They're also automatically doubling the lower tier prizes and dropping the Doubler name as you stated.

If they are reducing the # of balls does that mean the odds of winning the jackpot will increase?

"It looks like the cash amount for tmrw is being reduced to 614 from 643.  "
"They are just being cautious. "

They're not being cautious. They're failing at accurately predicting sales.

"Higher interest rate means less cash needed to earn same amount. "

Higher interest rates mean the same amount of cash can buy a bigger annuity.  The $1.4 billion annuity they're advertising was originally based on each dollar of cash buying $2.175 of annuity and having $643.7 million in cash. Rates have changed, and now every dollar of cash will buy $2.28 of annuity. If they were still planning on having $643.7 million in cash they'd be able to buy an annuity worth $1.467 billion. In that case being conservative would mean  advertising a $1.45 billion jackpot.  That they're sticking with the smaller annuity value based on what the cash can earn instead of the cash value that's based on actual tickets sales means that instead of selling enough tickets to add $92 million to the cash prize they're now expecting to sell only enough to add about $62 million. The worksheets on the TX lottery website show an initial sales forecast of about 139.4 million tickets, and a revised forecast of about 109.5 million tickets.

"I want to see a record cash value "

Based on the new rate it will take an advertised annuity of $2.275 billion to beat the previous high cash value by a couple hundred grand. I'm sure a lot of people think the advertised annuity means we're almost 70% of the way there, but the $614 million cash value they're now reporting means we're only 61.5% of the way there. The chance of a run getting this far is only about 5%, so the chance of getting the rest of the way to a new record is only about 8%.

It needs to roll 4x to get to 2.275

Being the noble TN  Volunteer, I am offering my services to accept the jackpot this evening and relieve you good folks of worrying about a $2B jackpot.

Someone in Texas walked away with our MM jackpot 😭

I saw that JM.............Wasn't overly thoughtful of them to do that.

We still have the PB, let's keep hope alive 😁

Congrats to the latest MM winner/s in TX 🎃

and to those grousing about it

onward we go to tonight's PB 

whar she lands no body knows !! 

will it be tonight or Wednesday ?!?

Maybe it will be a lucky weekend overall.....both Jackpots getting won?

I noticed more that there was no comment about that from Powerball.

No midday bump up on the day of the draw.  We have a pretty good chance to see another rollover.

I bought an extra ticket today. Maybe it will be lucky.

Bump? They reduced the cash from 643 to 614 yesterday because they overestimated.

So the ratio of Cash to Annuity is now under 44%....THAT, is pretty sad.

My 'little' pet peeve with Powerball is the rule that after $150 million, the Powerplay of 10X goes away.  It seems like it only comes in twice/year and as most folks here that play that can attest usually it is just 2X.  Now grumpy grouper wonders why they don't mirror Mega Millions with their multiplier so you could potentially win $5 million whereas Powerball stays @ $2 million regardless of the multiplier!

There once was a lotto playa named ShagE

He would play MM and/or PB

If the jackpot hit 100 mil

He would purchase but one ticket

If the 'pot hit 99 he would  say F... it

But at the end of the day he always has a deviled ham sandwich with onion and yellow mustard on wonder bread and a birch beer or moxie to look forward to.

A 10X power play would net you 10M on the second prize, that would be such a motivator.

But now what they did is make another 10M jackpot called double play.

You still have to match 5+1 to win it - just as hard as winning the original jackpot.

Do you think eliminating the double play $1 and having the 10X on the second prize regardless of the jackpot amount would motivate people to buy more and as such not affect the money brought in by the extra $1 generated by the double play?

Probably more people would though in the power play if the winning did not max out at 2M.

There once was a lotto player named JustMaybe aka JM

JM would play both MM and PB regardless of the jackpot amount and go an extra mile by throwing in an extra $1.

JM would purchase but one ticket.

At the end of the day, JM would have anything that JM desired and washed it down with a glass of wine.

😁😁😁

This is what id suggest:

Power play 10x up to $250 mil.

2nd prize included in powerplay. ....

Actually if there were ever a PB/mm merger:

Keep the mm matrix

Powetplay/megaplier has 10x including 2nd prize

Keep 3 draws a week .... you pick the days

Guaranteed 50 mil starting jackpot

Bring in Rolanda vega from her retirement as the host of the draw

All high numbers.....maybe a roll?

Wow

high numbers and unique 

gotta be ages or qp to win

It rolled. $1.55billion Annuity, $679.8million cash.

Could also be birth years, anniversary years, graduation years, etc....

Forgot about Double play since it is not offered here.   Had played it in Indiana once for several draws.

What I hadn't figured out is there another drawing for double play since I've never seen a drawing nor read about it?

I may suggest this to Kentucky Lottery but not really feeling it.

Yeah, bring back Yolanda Vega to Florida from NY to do the announcing.   Certainly her Statie Hubster has retired from the force by now.  Or she could @ least do the Powerball Rockin' NY Eve in Times Square.   How many LP members have entered through their respective states for a snowball's chance of even getting into the national drawing?  I have 44 entries but that doesn't really mean anything IMHO.

Funny how they reduced the cash value by almost $30 million but the Annuity stayed the same. Interest rates didn't go up substantially in the past 2 days.

The jackpot amount never decreased, and in fact increased by approximately $22 million prior to the draw.  Cash payouts are based on interest rate fluctuations.