I love it when PB jackpots get hit frequently

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DC81 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:47:06 GMT

I'm referring to the house winning when someone chooses the lump sum over the annuity.

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KY Floyd — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:01:03 GMT

I guess you can't figure out that doubling the price of a ticket is exactly the same thing as doubling the odds, and then only selling tickets in pairs.

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Todd — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:37:08 GMT

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diamondpalace — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:09:28 GMT

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Todd — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:05:31 GMT

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DC81 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:45:13 GMT

I think you have that switched around....

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RJOh — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:33:59 GMT

If anything, your argument proves no harm was done by raising the odds as more states were added and someone winning the jackpot on its first drawing can still happen. As you pointed out the jackpots haven't gotten any larger and they are still being won at the same frequency as they were with lower odds with fewer states. Sounds like they got it right, had they not raised the odds as states were added, the large jackpots which is the main attraction of the game couldn't exist.

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diamondpalace — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:23:48 GMT

The house always profit, even when someone wins the jackpot they also get a nice percentage of it. Even more if the winner takes lump sum instead of annually. Despite the increased in odds, it is still not impossible to win. Perhaps if it's 1/500billion chance someone still win it. Luck works in mysterious ways.

I love it when PB jackpots get hit frequently

lowerPB-MModds! — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:32:22 GMT

I just love when PB jackpots get hit frequently at relatively low amounts. Someone in CT won tonight's mere $25 million jackpot. It only goes to show that despite PB's greedy efforts to keep raising the jackpot odds to EVEN more impossibly astronomical odds (1/195 million now), the jackpot still won't reach PB's ideal level of $100+ million very often at all. Their highest jackpot ever still is $365 million from more than three years ago with lower jackpot odds than current levels, when players... [ More ]