Judge temporarily halts Texas Lottery ban on courier, hints courier "will likely prevail"

Comment #31

garyo1954 — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:41:16 GMT

No, by all accounts neither of the primary parties live in the USA.

Bernard Marantelli, the mastermind, is a former Deutsch Bank derivative trader turner bookmaker.

Zelijko Ranogajwc, The Joker, a Tasmanian gambler coordinated the buyout under the alias John Wilson.

Lottery, com earned $264,000 in commission while one executive cautioned in a private email, it is considered cheating by lottery players. We do not want to raise attention to it.

By December 2023 when the Texas Lot... [ More ]

Comment #30

JohnGalt3 — Fri, 09 May 2025 12:03:41 GMT

No, he lives in France.

Comment #29

JohnGalt3 — Fri, 09 May 2025 12:02:50 GMT

ken Paxton is against fraud and abuse. Sorry to hear you are in favor of it.

Comment #28

JohnGalt3 — Fri, 09 May 2025 12:00:44 GMT

No people are excluded. If you are an invalid you ask that someone else to help you. Are you that cold a person that you believe no one befriends older, sick people?

Glad you are not in my family. Or glad I don't live in your state. We help each other in mine.

Comment #27

Participant — Fri, 09 May 2025 08:52:11 GMT

Very good proposition.

The TLC leaderships that have resigned is an implicit acknowledgment of failure on their part to protect a game.

The current legislative acts of the law makers on this matter is an acknowledgment of a law that has issues in serving the people fairly and equally.

The judge is a lone ranger and the above consortium have the greater power to moot the TRO.

Comment #26

play4shekels — Fri, 09 May 2025 07:32:39 GMT

I have a solution for everyone, including the liberal judge that thinks Texas overstepped it's authority (it's THEIR game, they can change the rules any time they want). A simple solution at that.

All they have to do is cap the jackpot at $30-40 Million. Once it reaches the cap, what would otherwise be a rollover is instead rolled down proportionately to the lower prize levels.

Almost everyone wins. Jackpot winners get more than enough money to be happy with. Lower tier prize winners wi... [ More ]

Comment #25

zephbe — Fri, 09 May 2025 04:28:36 GMT

Did the winner of the $95 million Texas lotto live in Texas

Comment #24

Justing618 — Fri, 09 May 2025 02:21:07 GMT

Racket meaning -Enterprise carried on for profit. I'm not apologizing for anything.

Comment #23

Participant — Fri, 09 May 2025 01:17:01 GMT

You should apologize for your comment. For the benefit of the doubt, please see below:

A racket is a single illegal scheme or activity, while racketeering is the broader act of engaging in a pattern of illegal activities, often involving a criminal enterprise, to make money. In essence, racketeering is a continuing course of conduct that includes multiple rackets or illegal acts

Comment #22

Justing618 — Fri, 09 May 2025 00:04:20 GMT

Another one who can't read or comprehend I said racket. Not racketeering .

Comment #21

Participant — Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:48 GMT

The lottery is not a racketeering scheme of the sponsoring government because there are no elements of racketeering that are present in the games or can be proven to exist. While the games are a source of revenue for the government, it is a system of involuntary taxation that benefits the government and participation is strictly voluntary.

Comment #20

Justing618 — Thu, 08 May 2025 19:09:22 GMT

What's the sense of a regular Joe Smo playing. If an corporation is going to buy every winning combination? Powerball and Mega Millions are not private companies. The government wants the lottery racket to themselves.

Comment #19

spartan1707 — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:25:16 GMT

I would love to know what system the couriers use to play every combo for the larger jackpots period. They have every right to play the lottery as everyone else has. Texas would just defund the state lottery and then use a private company aka Powerball, Mega Millions companies to build and run the business. This would make wining harder for ever day players and harder for courier companies. This is what states use now to ensure the least pick numbers come out per drawings on the smaller jackpot

Comment #18

LottoNoobie — Thu, 08 May 2025 02:15:37 GMT

According to one famous courier: You will always only be able to order lottery tickets for the state that you are physically in you don't have to reside in the state. A person can use a VPN to trick the system. Texas lottery has an app that allows online purchases. Why the need for a courier

Comment #17

garyo1954 — Thu, 08 May 2025 01:33:33 GMT

Tickets must be purchased at a terminal located in the state of Texas.

Completely different. Otherwise how do you explain a company incorporated in Delaware, getting money from overseas and purchasing Texas lottery tickets through a lawyers office in Detroit by courier?

If only people in the state could use the courier service none of that could have happened (and we wouldn't be discussing any of this).

Comment #16

garyo1954 — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:20:22 GMT

That's a BINGO! The house has already zeroed the lottery budget. If the Senate follows suit no Texas Lottery after Sept 1.

Even if the Senate opposes it the Sunset review could still kill the Texas Lottery.

This temporary reprieve has two purposes 1) to make sure both sides get the opportunity to present a fair case and, 2) to prevent any appeals. Nothing the judge has said is permanent at this point.

Lottery com is basically thumbing their nose, saying, you're not going to have a lo... [ More ]

Comment #15

noise-gate — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:01:52 GMT

* Not if Texas AG Paxton can beat Abbot to the punch. Ever since Ken had Texas Justice snatch him from the clutches of Doom when certain politicians wanted him removed from he's position, he has been on a ride of vengeance. Looking left right to rebuild trust in political circles. This fight to ban couriers outright is red meat for the guy.

Comment #14

Justing618 — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:50:19 GMT

Exactly. The only ones I see complaining about this is the service and the boomers. You don't need a store front with a buncha machines. Should be 3 machines max......

Comment #13

Participant — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:10:53 GMT

The lottery relies on the steady loyalty of its everyday players, discourages addictive wasteful spending - aka problem gambling and while it makes money for the state, it is not designed to make this money from the increases of sales by courier services.

The everyday player plays to win on an equal playing field. His or her chances are diminished and degraded by the plots of the courier services. Players don't play to make money for the state, though it indirectly happens. They play to win... [ More ]

Comment #12

Participant — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:54:42 GMT

Courier services is a lottery beneath a lottery with a sinister agenda different from the lottery that it is paralyzing - the TLC.

The TLC should consider shutting down all games that can be defeated with the plots of the courier services - big money or rewrite the rules that makes courier services' chase of jackpots no longer attractive.

There is no fairness in the state collecting the people's money and enriching calculating businesses like courier services. I see no irreparable harm t... [ More ]

Comment #11

Todd — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:16:08 GMT

No, that's wrong. People can only use a courier if they reside within the state.

Comment #10

LottoNoobie — Wed, 07 May 2025 17:57:28 GMT

People residing in a different state can use a lottery courier to win a prize. That's not fair to the people that lives in Texas.

Comment #9

noise-gate — Wed, 07 May 2025 17:49:22 GMT

* l am convinced without evidence , that the majority of lottery players in Texas are elated with this ruling. If l am wrong, l apologize in advance.

Comment #8

Todd — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:39:31 GMT

I reject your argument about some people not being able to get to the store and participate in the lottery as nonsense . In your state, if no online options exist, then some people are excluded. The magical fairy does not deliver lottery tickets to their home, and they don't have some great friend at the store buying tickets for them, because they don't know anyone at the store (not that that's even legal in the first place). They are simply disenfranchised. If you're OK with that, then that's y... [ More ]

Comment #7

Justing618 — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:56:46 GMT

Exactly @old people figuring it out. The stores I frequent. They literally call the store. And the cashier buys there tickets.

Comment #6

welington — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:22:18 GMT

If they win Governor Abbott will close Texas Lottery he will never accept a loss

Comment #5

rcbbuckeye — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:16:01 GMT

Texas legislators already defunded the Lottery last month, so this is probably another nail in the coffin as it gives the legislators more incentive to eliminate it.

Comment #4

Thoma$53 — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:10:55 GMT

Thanks for enlightening me, I never considered that

Comment #3

JohnGalt3 — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:58:37 GMT

Some lotteries have terrible odds for the amount of tickets sold. Texas Lotto is one of them. Your chances of winning are one out 25,827,125. So, let's assume the jackpot grows to $95,000,000 as example. The ticket is $1.00 so as a corporation with $billions, you use courier services and buy every combination. Guess what? You spent $25,827,15 plus the courier fee but you won $95,000,000. That is how much the smart guy in France won by the way a few years ago in the Texas Lottery. The Texas Lotto... [ More ]

Comment #2

Thoma$53 — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:22:49 GMT

What is the logic for banning the courier service ?

It seems like it can only increase lottery ticket sales.

Comment #1

Justing618 — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:20:34 GMT

Imagine that! And if they win there suit. They will infest other lotterys. Nothing like greedy grubby people ruining it for everyone elese. And this company is trading on the market.

Judge temporarily halts Texas Lottery ban on courier, hints courier "will likely prevail"

Lottery Post — Wed, 07 May 2025 10:54:31 GMT

Court orders Texas Lottery to hold off on enacting its new policies

By Kate Northrop

A Travis County judge has issued a ruling that the Texas Lottery is temporarily prohibited from taking any action against a courier service company.

A court ruling has temporarily pumped the brakes on a Texas Lottery rule change that takes aim at lottery courier services.

Last week, the Texas Lottery Commission (TLC) formally voted to approve a policy change that effectively bans lottery couriers... [ More ]