Colorado man wins lottery second time

Comment #18

pumpi76 — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:28:45 GMT

Withing moments, he said, he heard a voice encouraging him to buy a ticket...

I wonder which voice was that?

Only two other people have won twice since the game began in 1989''? Perhaps that state, but i've heard of 3 people that have won it twice..The first case the guy had won 1.4 million dollars and later won like 3.5 million dollars (or something of that nature)...What a coincidence...

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Comment #17

Spoony luv — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:53:32 GMT

thats awesome that he won twice...Thru law of attraction---what he gave out came back and then some...I hope he keeps giving...Need more people in this world like him...

Comment #16

prayin4amiracle — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:17:08 GMT

...............Not thinking clearly, I once called out 7 numbers instead of 6, for the ticket vendor to punch into the computer instead of me just filling out a ticket, I planned on only spending a dollar on the nylotto that evening. when the numbers were drawn and I seen all those 5's, I got nervous and dizzy palms got sweaty I just knew then that I was NY's newest millionaire ! I knew I played lots of 5's in 1 of the 2 games, well today I come to realize that that vendor wasn't a number s... [ More ]

Comment #15

dumars798 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:42:05 GMT

WTG

Comment #14

cashinn — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:33:04 GMT

How sweet it is.

Comment #13

Litebets27 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:01:18 GMT

Congrats to the Colorado Man. At least he is persistent.

There once was a thread asking about big jackpot wins and if you would continue to play after a hit?

WELL, HERE'S YOUR ANSWER!!!!!!!

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Comment #12

CASH Only — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:59:09 GMT

Different annuitized games have different annuities. Therefore the actual cash value percentage varies from game to game, even between MM and PB. The MM annuity is 26 equal payments; PB is 30 graduated installments. Because of the longer annuity AND the increasing annual payments, the cash value percentage of the PB annuity is significantly lower than the cash value percentage of the MM annuity. In both games, however, cash option winners get their full share of the cash in the jackpot pool.

Comment #11

weshar75 — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:18:20 GMT

Cash-Did you know that the Powerball cash value is roughly just a little over 48% of the annuity. So the state lottery at 50% is giving its winners more cash then Powerball is to its winners. Mega Millions is the multi-state game that gives back to its winners over 50% of the annuity in cash value.-weshar75

Comment #10

emilyg — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:56:22 GMT

Comment #9

CASH Only — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:48:03 GMT

Florida Lotto does it the right way (cash value a floating percentage of the annuity.) When will Florida online games have the 60% payout?

Please see my compromise thread in the Lottery Discussion forum.

Comment #8

justxploring — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:25:25 GMT

Comment #7

CASH Only — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:18:37 GMT

Interesting that there was no mention of what he chose either time. Colorado Lotto is one of a number of games that fixes the cash value of the annuity as a percentage of the annuity (usually 50%) instead of having it fluctuate like in Mega Millions and Powerball. Cash value winners in these games actually get cheated (MM/PB cash winners do get their fair share).

Comment #6

DoubleDown — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:40:43 GMT

I hear voices telling me to buy tickets too...

Unfortunately, the voices are my wife and mini me on my shoulder .

I can't win once and this guy wins twice ?

Geez

Comment #5

ochoop17 — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:28:40 GMT

This guy prayer was answer. I hope my is answer in the future.

Comment #4

Ladyluck2005 — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:30:04 GMT

Good for him.

Comment #3

wizeguy — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:18:22 GMT

I'd be generous with charities too but would make sure there was enough set aside for me to live on. Congrats on the second windfall

Comment #2

orangeman — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:11:58 GMT

A total of 4.7 million isn't what it used to be. He's lucky, but he's not rich by a long shot. He has just enough money to get into big trouble unless he learns to say NO and not care what other people think.

Orangeman

Comment #1

weshar75 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:32:13 GMT

Man I hope this person doesn't buy Powerball. He has such good luck he might just win that too.-weshar75

Colorado man wins lottery second time

Lottery Post — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:32:11 GMT

A Pueblo, Colorado, man is celebrating his second jackpot win in three years.

The winner, who has asked to remain anonymous, won $3.4 million in the December 20 Colorado Lotto drawing.

He had previously won $1.3 million in October 2003.

The first time, according to Colorado Lottery officials, the man was a week away from filing for bankruptcy.

He uttered a desperate prayer: Lord, help me out. I want to pay my bills. I don't want to file for bankruptcy.

Within moments, he sa... [ More ]