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Americans gamble over half a trillion dollars illegally each year, AGA Report saysReply
The Kentucky pick 3 does pay $600 for $1, but players can't play on credit like they can with a bookie. The AGA represents the legal gaming industry and is making an educated guess on the total amount of money wagered on all forms of illegal gambling. The pick 3 and/or policy game wagering is only a tiny part. Doubt your neighborhood bookie will book PB and MM wagers. In Nevada players can legally wager millions on just about every sporting event and over 20 other states allow online sports
Dec 6, 2022, 12:44 am - Stack47 - Lottery News

$1.25 BILLION: Mega Millions jackpot set to deliver unimaginable wealthReply
There is a whole book on the Outlier phenomena. It's a great read/listen. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Just the act of getting all the numbers in a drawing is an outlier act - if not, we would all be winning everyday. I play lucky for life QP and get like 10 or more draws. The last one I had for 7 straight days not even a single number hit. Got my first break on the 8th day.
Aug 2, 2023, 5:24 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery News

Americans gamble over half a trillion dollars illegally each year, AGA Report saysReply
The reason the states went to riverboars was that at the time they thought any outside of Nevada casinos 9with some exceptions, such as places that already had gambling, (such as poker rooms in Montana ) they had to be on the water. In Vegas we heard a lot about casinos in Sault St Marie, MI pre-riverboats but who knows?) In Illinois at first the 'entrance fee' was $5 or $10 on weekedays and $15 on weekends. To those of us who went to the boats from Las Vegas , Reno, and other NV casinos not
Dec 6, 2022, 9:17 pm - Coin Toss - Lottery News

30 Kentucky middle school employees win $1M Powerball prize, hid lottery ticket in math textbookNews Story
By Kate Northrop A group of 30 middle school employees carpooled to the Kentucky Lottery after the final school bell rang on Tuesday to collect their $1 million Powerball prize. 30 educators from a Boone County middle school regrouped after work to collect the $1 million Powerball prize they won in the Jan. 27 drawing and showed up at Lottery headquarters in high spirits. The group calls themselves the Jones 30, named after the Rector A. Jones Middle School in Florence that brought t
Feb 3, 2024, 9:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Minnesota woman made $117,000 from illegal lottery she claimed benefitted charityNews Story
Lottery organizer tried to disguise raffles after law enforcement told her to stop all operations By Kate Northrop A Minnesota woman has allegedly raked in at least $117,000 by operating an illegal lottery on Facebook and tried to disguise further attempts to run it after authorities gave her a hard warning. Kathryn Jean Deblack, 39, of Hibbing, has been issued multiple charges after she ran an illegal lottery that brought in more than $117,000 over the course of ten months. She
Sep 18, 2023, 2:24 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Convicted murderer Dee Dee Moore wants new trialNews Story
Woman who killed lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare tries to lift life prison sentence By Kate Northrop The woman who was convicted for killing Florida Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare is looking to alter her prison sentence of life without parole and filed a motion to be given a new trial. In 2012, Dee Dee Moore, now 50, was found guilty of first-degree murder and possessing and discharging a firearm on Dec. 10, 2012 after prosecutors accused her of swindling and then killing Shak
Jul 21, 2023, 10:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Single mother who won $6 million in lottery opens up about the good and bad of winning millionsNews Story
Winner is still doing financially well even though she was tempted to splurge By Kate Northrop While many hopeful lottery players dream about the cars they'd drive, the places they'd vacation to, and the mansions they'd buy if they ever won big, a single mother stepped forward seven years after her $6 million win to talk about what makes winning millions in the lottery so tricky. When a single mother won $6 million in her state lottery, she didn't expect the sudden changes that were
Oct 30, 2023, 4:34 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery rigger Eddie Tipton released on paroleNews Story
Final decision after back-and-forth fate of convicted former MUSL Security Director By Kate Northrop Convicted lottery rigger Eddie Tipton was released from prison on Friday following a series of events that had his freedom in limbo. According to the Iowa Department of Corrections online prison records, Eddie Tipton, 59, was released from prison in Clarinda, Iowa on parole. Tipton changed lottery history forever when he was sentenced to the maximum 25 years in prison for rigging
Jul 21, 2022, 7:45 am - Todd - Lottery News