Store owners sell themselves $25.5 million Powerball lottery ticket

Comment #13

LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 14 May 2005 01:50:04 GMT

i wonder if they chose cash or annuity

Comment #12

LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:40:55 GMT

this was not a conflict of interest,no fraud or anything in selling themselves a ticket.

Comment #11

LotteryBuddy — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 04:45:01 GMT

Agreed. It is common sense that insiders should not be allowed to play, win and claim their own lotteries. PERCEIVED conflict of interest is just as important as any actual conflict of interest. Many lottery players will now think that Powerball is fixed. It is possible that a customer had given them the 10-draw ticket to check in a previous draw, but they did not give the ticket back.At least Tennessee prohibits their employees, families and suppliers from playing. Many lottery organizatio... [ More ]

Comment #10

LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 21:12:16 GMT

i hope there are more tennessee winners in the future.....

Comment #9

acronym007 — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:45:45 GMT

Rick, I never said there was fraud. I believe there is more room for fraud or possible insider issues when you allow tickets to be purchased this way. What's to stop me from opening a storefront, selling tickets, finding a the winning ticket and keeping it. No one here will ever convince me that there is no possiblity of something going wrong, it doesn't always have to be direct fraud but what if you keep some tickets you were going to sell? You keep the winning ticket? If the owner has nothing... [ More ]

Comment #8

Rick G — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 16:24:10 GMT

Acronym,No fraud could possibly be involved in this case. They bought the ticket nine draws ago. There is still one draw remaining on the ticket and no player is going to give their losing ticket away until all draws have been played on that ticket.

Comment #7

CASH Only — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 14:34:15 GMT

The cash/annuity choice should be a no-brainer...

Comment #6

acronym007 — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:45:24 GMT

I don't think they should be able to win... NOT FROM THE SAME STORE. They could be very honest people BUT who's to say that store owner doesn't tell some person, who isn't that bright that they did'nt win and then claim the ticket for themselves? I think at minimum they should have to play at other stores, winning from your own store is very suspect in my book even if the deal is competely clean. I know I would be double checking my tickets if I went in there to have them check by the machine. I... [ More ]

Comment #5

LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 02:38:58 GMT

too many people are winning the powerball lately.....

Comment #4

starchild_45 — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 02:35:31 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by golotto on April 1, 2005 Buying a ticket with 10 future plays and hitting Powerball on the 9th draw...and that same ticket still has one draw to go. Cool this is the only way i buy powerball myself. 10 drawings or more and the powerplay.

Comment #3

CASH Only — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:30:40 GMT

Cool only if they choose CASH...

Comment #2

golotto — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:10:00 GMT

Buying a ticket with 10 future plays and hitting Powerball on the 9th draw...and that same ticket still has one draw to go. Cool

Comment #1

nobie23 — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:02:11 GMT

now isn't that ironic congrats to the winners

Store owners sell themselves $25.5 million Powerball lottery ticket

Lottery Post — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:36:00 GMT

Their day started with a phone call that they had won $25,000.And it only got better from there.Twenty-five million dollars better, in fact, for the Hubbard family Richie, Bobbi, Brent, Brian, Angel and Stacey, the first people to buy a ticket in Tennessee and win the Powerball lottery jackpot.''That sure is a lot of zeroes,'' Richie Hubbard said as he and his family posed with an oversized cardboard check at the Tennessee Lottery's MetroCenter headquarters in Nashville yesterday afternoon.When... [ More ]