$600,000 Powerball Lottery Prize Claimed by N.M. Man

Comment #8

Rip Snorter — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:18:33 GMT

I was curious when I went down to buy my tickets, whether there'd be any conversation about this $600K PP win.Nobody much seemed aware of it, but a guy outside thought it was 'pure horse manure' for a man to win a lottery with a jackpot that size, pay an extra dollar, and only get $600,000, when I tried to explain. He was hot and I didn't figure it was worth the effort to try to explain further. If Powerball and the NM Lottery Authority can't communicate with their players well enough to expl... [ More ]

Comment #7

Chewie — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:37:26 GMT

Not complaining about your site Todd. I don't have time to read everything on it. Tons of data. I don't see how you have a life with all those links. I was just curious about the number.Cop5902 has a valid point I didn't think about. On large jackpots, the money is better spent on the big number, not the little number. I never bet to make second place, always first.

Comment #6

Todd — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:11:54 GMT

I can only report what MUSL is willing to report. Since they did not release that information, I cannot report it.One thing that I think I have done is to ORGANIZE the information better than the other web sites out there.

Comment #5

cop5902 — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:07:07 GMT

To find out whether the extra dollar would pay off, I don't think we need to figure out how many tickets with powerplay option were actually sold. Based on the fact that part of the first dollar goes to the jackpot as well as some non-jackpot prizes and the powerplay multiplication of the winnings does not apply to the jackpot, I guess that beyond a certain level of jackpot amount one would be better off by spending that extra dollar on buying another ticket instead of buying the powerplay opti... [ More ]

Comment #4

Chewie — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:26:04 GMT

I looked down the list, under Powerball, and went to each link. I couldn't find: What number of players used the Powerplay option? I saw that 44K+ players won with Powerplay, but how many put down the extra dollar? I was trying to guessimate whether that extra dollar pays off that often.

Comment #3

RJOh — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:50:20 GMT

The number of winners with PowerPlay is shown in the results at USAMEGA. A link is on the left of the page.

Comment #2

Chewie — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:03:22 GMT

Always glad to hear of a winner. Congradulations to him.I wonder what the percent of Powerplay winners are. I would asume small.

Comment #1

Rip Snorter — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:19:20 GMT

Cool story. Bought Powerplay with a QP, which I can't imagine any circumstances I'd do, and it paid.Good seeing NM getting a bit of the geetus occasionally, especially when the odds are stacked against him as badly as those were with the PP option.I'd shake this guy's hand if I ran into him, tell him I take my hat off to him for taking a risk I'd never take and having it pay off.I buy a QP every draw, incidently, as well as my picked numbers. Lately I've been noticing the QP numbers seem to b... [ More ]

$600,000 Powerball Lottery Prize Claimed by N.M. Man

Lottery Post — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:00:01 GMT

When the Powerball prize structure changed 10 days ago, Al Ramos of Albuquerque had no idea that a last-minute $2 decision would become a life-changing experience.Ramos correctly matched all five white ball numbers for the September 7 Powerball drawing. And by spending an extra $2 for the Power Play multiplier option on his $2 Powerball purchase, Ramos tripled a $200,000 prize into the New Mexico Lottery's first-ever $600,000 prize.The $600,000 prize is the fourth-largest New Mexico Lottery priz... [ More ]