150 million jump

Reply #21

fxsterling — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:29:59 GMT

tx wants both but mm said no past news about 2 weeks ago

Reply #20

sirbrad — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 05:40:54 GMT

Being I cannot play it here, it will only continue to roll forever. I wonder why PA does have the MM's? Can you have both, or only one or the aother

Reply #19

fxsterling — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 05:34:28 GMT

if it rolls and doen't hit next friday it will roll 150 last week they had over 1 million winners

Reply #18

fxsterling — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:44:14 GMT

if mm gets over 300 million it will take a 150 jump watch

Reply #17

ryanm — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:20:38 GMT

I predict MM won't break $300 million until it first gets hit under $100 million.

Reply #16

dvdiva — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:52:40 GMT

The only cap in MM is based on sales and probabilities. I would doubt it could crack 500 million. A roll like Powerball indicates it could get up to 400 but surviving the 190 - 350 range is very very unlikely. So far MM hasn't even broke 300 in spite of having the longest odds of any game.

Reply #15

sirbrad — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:06:42 GMT

Why a cap anyway? So it can't get to a billion? Or do they just want to max out the earnings as long as they possibly can in order to fill their own greedy pockets

Reply #14

weshar75 — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:20:59 GMT

A 150 million jump is more likely in the game Mega millions because they don't had a match 5 bonus rule like powerball does to cap the growth of jackpots. A roll of 150 million in powerball benefits the match 5 bonus winners more than anyone else.

Reply #13

twisted — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:35:44 GMT

It HAS happened and can happen again. On August 25th, 2001 Powerball sold $203,868,890 worth of lottery tickets (http://www.lottoreport.com/powerballsales.htm).

Reply #12

ryanm — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:51:04 GMT

The cap isn't in effect yet for Powerball because the annuity jackpot currently has to be at $339.9 million or above for the cap to be in effect (the record PB annuity jackpot of $314.9 million + $25 million).

Reply #11

Littlemanjen — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:05:10 GMT

Anyone understand what the true 25M jump that is allowed on Powerball? Does it mean the annuity can only go to 265M after tonight or the cash can only go up to 142.7M if no one wins tonight

Reply #10

dvdiva — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:59:31 GMT

I think it depends on the Jackpot level. So far sales vs. population in MM isn't that great. If a jackpot passes the 300 million mark or rolls at the 290 mark to 350+ then sales could really take off. The big push would be from people who normally don't buy tickets but will thanks to media coverage.

Reply #9

bellyache — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:35:22 GMT

I could see a big jump happening, but I don't necessarily think it would jump by 150 million though.

Reply #8

Prob988 — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:34:35 GMT

I'm sorry but the jackpot will take some time to get there. Powerball has a cap; once the jackpot has reached the largest value it has seen, the top prize can only rise by $25 million, with the rest of the proceeds distributed to the second prize winners.I'm not sure, but I believe this is using annuity value and not cash value to determine where this limitation kicks in. Since the annuity has been inflated by a new payout scheme, the real value of the prize, it's cash value, will rise even mo... [ More ]

Reply #7

bks2 — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:14:15 GMT

If noone wins friday or tuesday and the jackpot is over 450 million it will get really crazy.

Reply #6

ryanm — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:28:33 GMT

It almost happened once, so it could happen. The lotteries sold $195,576,985 worth of tickets for the May 9, 2000 Big Game drawing of $363 million (source: http://www.lottoreport.com/mmsales1.htm ).

Reply #5

Bradly_60 — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:00:10 GMT

You would need sales of around $200,000,000 for a jackpot jump of $150,000,000. Highly unlikely that would ever happen.Brad

Reply #4

fxsterling — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:30:33 GMT

and 10 million thats texas math 40 million pb jump 12-03 i think that was jack w. run

Reply #3

Jake649 — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:11:10 GMT

My records show that the jump in jackpot was from $230 million to $363 million for the May 9, 2000 draw. A jump of $133 million.Good luck,Jake

Reply #2

fxsterling — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:41:48 GMT

that was x mess about 100 million i think

Reply #1

dvdiva — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 05:46:45 GMT

Next biggest jumps were by powerball in 2002 including the one won by Jack.

150 million jump

fxsterling — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 05:41:20 GMT

may 9 2000 the big game had a 143 million jump it went from 220 - 363 million does any one know any other big jumps