Lottery nixes man's bid to buy 7 million tickets

Comment #20

Todd — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:36:58 GMT

The decision is final. The Governor and the rest of the state government is talking about altering the state constitution to ban the practice, because this would be the only way to strike down the court ruling (which is final).

Comment #19

CASH Only — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:25:39 GMT

I don't think it's official yet Todd.

Comment #18

Todd — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:52:28 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by CASH Only on November 18, 2003 Which will happen first in Mass.- a cash option for the 6/49 (and 6/42), or same-sex marriages made legal? Turns out it's the latter.

Comment #17

RJOh — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:21:50 GMT

CASH Only quote:If yo

Comment #16

CASH Only — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:56:43 GMT

Which will happen first in Mass.- a cash option for the 6/49 (and 6/42), or same-sex marriages made legal

Comment #15

hypersoniq — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:08:17 GMT

It was probably Jack Whitak

Comment #14

RJOh — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:00:42 GMT

Sweat,I'm from from central Ohio too. Before I retired, I worked with a guy who tried to organize a similar scheme, but he would going to sell each member a set of numbers to play and make his money off selling the numbers,but he couldn't get ten people to join, so the scheme never got off the ground. At the time, our town had about 25,000 people and about 2,500 lottery players who bought $5-$10 of tickets per draw and nobody had ever won the big jackpot, so he couldn't convince anyone that wou... [ More ]

Comment #13

Littleoldlady — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:12:22 GMT

He is a candidate for Gamblers Anonymous or the looney bin.

Comment #12

The_Sweat — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:54:05 GMT

Well while we are discussing plans let me explain mine. The old Super Lotto here in Ohio was 6/47 with 10,737,573 combos. My plan was to create a club of 107,375 members. Each member had a pre selected set of 100 non repeated combos, that no other member had. When the jackpot hit a target of say 50 million we bet. One of the members had to hit. The member did not share the winnings. I got as far as getting a newsletter set up, most of the programming up and running and decided I better check wit... [ More ]

Comment #11

JAZZY JASPER — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:37:43 GMT

Hmmm

Comment #10

twisted — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:31:30 GMT

He is either very very smart or very very stupid.

Comment #9

MichiganHopeful — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:29:47 GMT

He already lost very bad...He spent $60,000 to win $6,000...obviously a man willing to bet that kind of money and get that kind of return...and yet still attempt to bet again with even more money does not really care about the return that he will get. Who bets $7 million dollars without a sure return on his money

Comment #8

CASH Only — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:11:00 GMT

That's the sad truth, Todd.

Comment #7

Todd — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:08:59 GMT

Hey, that's pretty funny! The guy would probably just do better to invest his $10 Million, rather than to pay the lottery $10 mil for an annuity.

Comment #6

CASH Only — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:06:57 GMT

I bet he doesn't even know that the game still does NOT offer a cash option.

Comment #5

fja — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:34:51 GMT

With That kind of WAM (walk

Comment #4

RJOh — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:10:45 GMT

Sounds like this guy is working alone, that syndicate have a big group of bonded people to play their cards. I guess some of the politicians don't want the lottery to be a sure thing. They would really go nuts if someone came up with a system that with $20K they could win a lottery jackpot 50% of the time.RJOh

Comment #3

smd173 — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:59:10 GMT

Wow spooky. We basically po

Comment #2

smd173 — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:57:41 GMT

I had heard a story about a group of investors from Austrailia that attempted to buy the Virginia lottery a few years back. They went about filling in the punch cards themselves and then taking them to individual ticket sellers around the state. They never purchased enough tickets to cover every combo, but they bought about 75% of them. And they did win. And they were the only winners.

Comment #1

RJOh — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:56:44 GMT

Sounds like one of those Lottery Investment Syndicates. Years ago a T.V. show 'How They Do That' featured a story about one that won the Virgina lottery, but they took over terminals at a few 7-11 stores an played 80% of the possible combinations. The group said they looked for state lotteries that had jackpots with cash values greater than the odds of winnings and invested in them. Right after that Virgina changed its lotteries laws so no single group could take over enough terminals to do t... [ More ]

Lottery nixes man's bid to buy 7 million tickets

Lottery Post — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:13:04 GMT

A deep-pocketed mystery man from Chicago tried to bet an odds-skewing $7 million on the Mass Millions numbers game this week after Lottery officials opened the door by helping him buy 60,000 of the dollar tickets just last week.Lottery officials furiously backpedaled yesterday, refusing to release the man's identity even as they admitted they have no idea where his cash came from - raising fears among lawmakers that a mobster or drug kinpin may be trying to launder money through the Lottery. I'm... [ More ]