PB $88.7 million cash

Reply #8

Rip Snorter — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:51:17 GMT

In my opinion, however, your remark is irrelevant, to a considerable extent, to the issue at hand, because comparing $10,000 pay raise directly to the PB jackpot is not fair due to the difference between the two in some important characteristics, such as the degree of certainty, stability, predictability, and so on. If one hopefully can win, who wouldn't buy PB tickets even for 1M?$10 in one's hand can be MUCH, but $10M PB or MM jackpot might be perceived as SMALL, NOT because $10M by itself is... [ More ]

Reply #7

lchoro — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:29:11 GMT

[quote] $10 in one's hand can be MUCH, but $10M PB or MM jackpot might be perceived as SMALL, NOT because $10M by itself is small, BUT because it can be slightly or far less than what s/he expects from a $1 ticket when considering the extremely low chance of just 1 in about 150 millions.[/quote] Jackpot fatigue. The players know that the bigger matrix results in very large jackpots so they hold off playing $ 20/$50/$100 worth at one till there's a reasonable expectation that the drawing will res... [ More ]

Reply #6

anonymous77 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:22:21 GMT

I agree with you on the point that even $10,000 pay raise, far less than $88M, would make anyone much pleasantly surprised. No doubt about it.In my opinion, however, your remark is irrelevant, to a considerable extent, to the issue at hand, because comparing $10,000 pay raise directly to the PB jackpot is not fair due to the difference between the two in some important characteristics, such as the degree of certainty, stability, predictability, and so on. If one hopefully can win, who wouldn't b... [ More ]

Reply #5

lchoro — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:05:20 GMT

Long-term interest rates are also starting to rise more quickly. That will also cause the jackpot value to rise in greater proportion to the cash value. If the interest rate for a 30-year annuity rises from 4 percent to 6 percent, the annuity value would rise more than 25 percent for the same starting amount of cash. The other way to look at it is the cash value for a jackpot will be about 20 percent less than before should the interest rates rise to 6 percent.

Reply #4

Rip Snorter — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:35:18 GMT

Hopefully if a person wins while it's 'only' 88.7 M will be able to moderate his/her lifestyle in such a way as to not have to work. Even though most lottery players are used to a higher standard of living than that allows, scrimping and saving, cutting corners, buying at Sam's and saving coupons, they could still make it.If people aren't buying tickets when cash value's 88M, wonder why they'd buy if it's 150M. If they won they'd never know the difference between those two amounts. I'm bettin... [ More ]

Reply #3

ryanm — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:40:01 GMT

I'd have to agree with you on that one, dvdiva. I'd also have to say there's a good chance it will make it there, since PB's experiencing the low sales:odds ratio most in-state lotto games experience that make those games sometimes seem to roll forever.

Reply #2

dvdiva — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 02:26:57 GMT

So how many drawings do you think it will take to break 300 ryanm? I'm thinking it will take 4 or 5.

Reply #1

ryanm — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:28:58 GMT

The reason the CVO jumped by such a low amount was because PB's been selling less tickets than expected - if you do the math, the CVO for last Saturday's drawing, had it been won, would have been only $79.3 million, based on total sales for the current run (the first four drawings gave 32.6689% of sales to the jackpot, while the rest of the drawings gave 30.28855% of sales to the jackpot).

PB $88.7 million cash

weshar75 — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:35:01 GMT

Powerball jumped $5.6 million more for wednesday 10-5-05. That is cash as in greenbacks, moolah, dineros, bones. Well see you on wednesday.