Pool players ponder Powerball hypocrisy

Comment #7

CASH Only — Tue, 11 May 2004 21:24:21 GMT

I had a $3 winner out of six tickets.

Comment #6

DoctorEw220 — Sun, 09 May 2004 07:56:31 GMT

From the article: The last time, a $221.5 million payoff in January, produced the first South Carolina winning ticket. Where do these people get their information? That was actually the SECOND sinning ticket sold in South Carolina. A little over a year ago, South Carolina sold its first jackpot ticket.

Comment #5

markp1950 — Sun, 09 May 2004 03:20:13 GMT

Welll... I made $4 tonig

Comment #4

Thomas Covenant — Sat, 08 May 2004 22:43:34 GMT

There's a pool tournament that I know of that the winning team splits $16,000 at the end of it.

Comment #3

four4me — Sat, 08 May 2004 22:13:28 GMT

there's a big difference between a pool tourney and a 5 dollar pool game. In a tourney the 1st and 2nd place winners receive there cut of the pot. After the last game is played and usually there's a trophy involved also. In a regular pool game if they were passing money across the table or to one another after each individual game then they were gambling and that's a no no especially in front of the police.

Comment #2

keystonechas — Sat, 08 May 2004 21:41:05 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by smd173 on May 08, 2004I find it hard to believe the police would bust up a $5 pool game. Seems to me something was left out of this story.They must have run out of free doughnuts at the coffee shop and were bored.Chas

Comment #1

smd173 — Sat, 08 May 2004 18:42:16 GMT

I find it hard to believe the police would bust up a $5 pool game. Seems to me something was left out of this story.

Pool players ponder Powerball hypocrisy

Lottery Post — Sat, 08 May 2004 18:10:02 GMT

Nobody was betting on $212 million at The Pour House on Friday.A week after Charleston police and State Law Enforcement Division agents raided a pool tournament at the Savannah Highway tavern, three patrons at the bar shook their heads no over their beer. They hadn't bought a $1 chance at the state-sponsored, long-odds Powerball game.The prize at stake in tonight's drawing for the multistate lottery payoff has climbed to more than $200 million for the second time in five months. The last time,... [ More ]