Indiana convenience store sells winning $163M Powerball ticket

Comment #17

LouieTheCat — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:45:02 GMT

Here's the full story:

The player who purchased the winning $163.2 million-winning Powerball ticket in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. has claimed their riches through GMTR Investments, LLC. GMTR Investments, LLC was represented by Attorney Tim Michaels. His clients elected to take the cash option and received a one-time lump sum payment of $97,966,541 before taxes.

They [the winners] are a group of individuals from Cincinnati, said Michaels. From what I understand, they like Powerball better than... [ More ]

Comment #16

time*treat — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:47:33 GMT

Bought in IN, winners from OH.

Comment #15

LckyLary — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:02:09 GMT

Michael M. - if you were going to play the numbers that came out, then yes kick yourself. but if you were going for QP then you were probably not going to win! You see, the QP is racing through combinations millions per second, so it depends on the exact instant the clerk pushed the QP button that landed exactly on a winning combination and put it on the ticket. Your going on the line to play may have disrupted the timestream and prevented the person(s) who won AND yourself from winning. So don

Comment #14

mayan27 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:51:21 GMT

r u kidding me Texas Joey

Comment #13

Stew12 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:19:10 GMT

I think KY Floyd was being sarcastic

Comment #12

RJOh — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:56:14 GMT

The odds of winning the PowerBall game are calculated the same way there are for any other lottery game.

MATCH ODDS

5/5+B 1 : 195249054

5/5+0 1 : 5138133

4/5+B 1 : 723145

4/5+0 1 : 19030

3/5+B 1 : 13644

3/5+0 1 : 359

2/5+B 1 : 787

1/5+B 1 : 123

0/5+B 1 : 62

___________________________

overall odds are 1 : 35.1

Comment #11

KY Floyd — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:09:30 GMT

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are estimated at 195 million to one.

It sure is a shame that there's no way to actually calculate the odds accurately, eh

Comment #10

bytheshore — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:32:14 GMT

...spent his entire time there kicking himself for not following through on a promise he made on Saturday to buy Powerball tickets.

I was supposed to come down here and pick up tickets for the lottery for my mother-in-law and instead we took the money and went to the casino on Saturday, Makeba lamented.

If that was his mother-in-law's money he spent at the casino instead of on PB tickets, I hope she actually kicked him.

Comment #9

robmang — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:54:32 GMT

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are estimated at 195 million to one.

But when your convenience store sells the winning ticket, it suddenly doesn't seem quite as impossible.

Funny...I remember I used to work in Naples and went to the racetrac station across the street. I used to buy all my tickets there because they seemed to be the only people who didnt screw up the tickets printing them out..never won anything. I switched work locations and it couldn't have been more than a cou... [ More ]

Comment #8

DelmarvaChick — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:39:49 GMT

...well he could have been the winner if the winning ticket numer hadn't been bought already...or 2 tickets with the same number could have been sold.........extremely long shot but still possible.

Comment #7

time*treat — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:41:21 GMT

Nah. Those kinds have wonderous ways to save the world ... but it always involves spending someone elses money, never their own. Got a few of 'em around here.

Comment #6

GamerMom — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:31:41 GMT

I was supposed to come down here and pick up tickets for the lottery for my mother-in-law and instead we took the money and went to the casino on Saturday, Makeba lamented. He told WHAS11's Joe Arnold that his mother-in-law had a feeling about the Powerball purchase.

I'm dying inside, he continued

Not sure why he's kicking himself, obviously he wouldn't have been the winner...

Comment #5

Texas Joey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:17:37 GMT

I sure wish Lottery Post had a Pool to join. Playing the Power Ball and Mega Games. Think of the fun we could have on line.

I would join Platnium in a minute!!

Joey

Comment #4

OldSchoolPa — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:26:57 GMT

Kind of reminds me of someone on MSN saying that the country should not be spending multi-millions for today's inauguration, that that money could be better spent elsewhere. Hmmm, let's see...America has always held inaugurations regardless of the prevailing conditions so why should today be any different? Besides, anytime you have a changing of the guard, all organizations find that they are well served by having some type of formal transition ceremony. But hey I am probably speaking to the cho... [ More ]

Comment #3

OldSchoolPa — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:14:21 GMT

Comment #2

dpoly1 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:35:28 GMT

The person or persons that won have the right to spend the money wherever they want.

I am more than a little tired of people assuming that they have have the right to tell people who have a lot of money what to do with their money!

If I ever win, the money will be spent wherever is choose to spend it! That will most likely not be where I currently live.

Best wishes to the winner/winners, do what you want to do with the money. It is yours

Comment #1

RJOh — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:11:39 GMT

I'd like to see the money stay here in town for sure, said Steve Doyle of Lawrenceburg, They could donate to schools or churches.

At least one person has an idea about how to spend the winnings, now all he has to do is buy a ticket and win.

Indiana convenience store sells winning $163M Powerball ticket

Lottery Post — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:54:12 GMT

The Southeast Indiana community of Lawrenceburg is buzzing with news that a convenience store there sold the one winning Powerball ticket in Saturday's drawing.

The winning ticket is worth $163 million, just under $100 million if the winner takes a lump sum payment. The identity of the winner remains a mystery.

Lawrenceburg is about 20 miles west of Cincinnati.

With no winner yet to step forward, the clerks at the Circle K convenience store and gas station that sold the winning ticket a... [ More ]