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Women win $276M lottery jackpot - and report back to workReply
I still would have waited until I had all of my ducks in a row before I claimed the ticket and went public. But with that many winners in the pool I guess the majority would rule.If most of them wanted the money now,I guess you would have to go along with them.Unless you happened to be the one holding the ticket. Thats one of the reasons that I would never join a pool.
Mar 18, 2008, 9:40 pm - MaddMike51 - Lottery News

Tax office workers win Powerball lottery jackpotReply
There's always a chance of winning a lawsuit, no matter how frivolous it might seem, especially to those who get their information from a brief news report. Some of the people speculating about the possibility of lawsuit in this case must have read a different article than the one I read, because the one I read doesn't offer any useful information on whether such a case would be frivolous or not. Based on this article, there was no statement by anyone suggesting (much less a spokeperson acknowle
Mar 18, 2008, 2:51 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Tax office workers win Powerball lottery jackpotReply
Famico said employees of the office had a regular Powerball pool, but only eight of the 11 women were in it last week. I'm assuming this means there were drawings when all 11 were in the pool and when the spokesman said we will give them some of the money , a lawsuit is very likely. They have an office with 11 women, 8 of the women get $17 million and the 3 women are dependant on the generosity of the other 8. Do the women in the Sheriff's tax office carry guns?
Mar 17, 2008, 3:54 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Running an office Powerball pool is discouragingReply
I should be, but I am not. Unfortunately, I am not playing just my numbers for the office pool. Our signed agreement gives me control over how funds are dispursed. I am not too worried about $10,000. It is not much money. I would just claim the money, pay the taxes(I would figure out my real tax cost), and then give the group their percentage under the table . $200,000 would be a much bigger pain in the butt, because it is a large enough sum that just handing them the cash under the table
Mar 11, 2008, 2:22 am - grengrad - Lottery Discussion Forum

Running an office Powerball pool is discouragingReply
You should be doing 50 times better than when you were only buying 1 ticket. Winning a $100 or less may be discouraging and matching 5/5 or better may be a dream. but if you ever match 4/4+1 for $10,000 it could be a nightmare. One person has to claim it and pay the taxes while the pool members may want to split the prize before taxes or after a minimum allowance for taxes. If the person claiming the win is in a higher tax bracket then he has to depend on the pool members kicking in some extr
Mar 10, 2008, 12:57 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Man accused of stealing $10,000 lottery ticket from co-workersReply
In this case he actually cheated the other players and got caught stealing. I wonder what would happen if one person out of group of 20 or 30 won the jackpot on tickets they bought for themselves. I don't think most people would expect a huge gift unless it was known they gave 2 or 3 other players a half million. In large pools, the only one that actually knows all the players is the person running it so many of them might expect him to hand them some money. So the problem might not be sharin
Mar 7, 2008, 2:15 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Michigan lawmaker wins $2M lottery jackpotNews Story
A Michigan lawmaker has won a $2 million lottery jackpot. Southgate Democrat Barb Farrah won the prize during Friday's game between the Detroit Pistons and the Milwaukee Bucks at The Palace of Auburn Hills. She randomly was selected from a pool of five finalists. It's a nice financial cushion for Farrah. She is serving her last year in the state House of Representatives and can't run again because of term limits. All the finalists were picked from a pool of 875 people who had bought $2
Feb 25, 2008, 2:54 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Close Call Ouch!Reply
Heck, I've been closer - twice - and the kicker is: the number I missed on ? The one that actually did hit was in the pool of four numbers I had to choose from, I chose wrong. And before everyone says 'why didn't you wheel those 4 numbers ?', the answer is because I DID wheel some of the other numbers in my selection, but you just can't wheel everything - I follow a discipline of no more than 10 games per draw. I've done 15-20-40 games years ago, and I have done NO better than when I just do
Feb 14, 2008, 1:15 pm - guesser - Jackpot Games Forum

POLL: Breaking the codeReply
Breaking the code! ... I always thought this would make a great movie .. A Howard Hughes type millionaire goes thru something like a bad love life and a failure of a new invention project and looses (his/her) mind and ends up delusional on the streets and lives in a cardboard box not even knowing who he is anymore. Eventually meeting up with other down on their luck types in a mission house who are all doing a pool for the lottery from street donations they collect. (He/she) befriends several di
Dec 30, 2007, 10:07 pm - Skoaler - Lottery Discussion Forum

Year-old Indiana Lottery jackpot finally wonReply
With over one year before it has been won there could be a couple reasons. The jackpot pool money could have been put into an interest bearing account after each draw until the jackpot is won. Could be there was not much lower tier prize money paid out and that money was added to the next jackpot pool.
Nov 15, 2007, 2:09 pm - JAP69 - Lottery News