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when do you guys play?Reply
I'm in a pool at work for Powerball and Louisiana Lotto. There are 6 of us in it and every payday, we put up $4/each and buy 2 Lotto and 3 Powerball tickets for the next 4 drawings. We've won a few small prizes here and there, but nothing big, yet. I play Louisiana Lotto myself, buying a ticket for every drawing. The prizes are smaller but the odds are better. With a minimum jackpot of $250,000, I could pay off all my debts, including my house, mortgage, etc. and be in a good position.
Feb 11, 2006, 10:23 am - PrisonerSix - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pennsylvania man loses thousands to lottery scamNews Story
Gary Young said he should have known better, but the promise of thousands of dollars clouded his judgment a bit.Now, the North Sewickley Township man is out more than $3,500, the victim of the latest scam to target the region.In a letter dated Dec. 15, from the purported Transmerica POS Prize Pool Lottery, Young was told that he had until Dec. 30 to claim a $50,000 prize. To claim the prize, he had to take a Transmerica check, worth $3,950, and cash it, so that he could wire money to the lottery
Jan 30, 2006, 7:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery winner pleads innocent to ID theft, fraud chargesReply
If you didn't see it, there's a link to a previous article about the case in the related stories box, and that article has more information. If the newspaper articles are correct, the woman got a check for $33,000 and two weeks later the cops could only find $1300. If that's any indication, the most she is likely to have done is make the minimum monthly payment so that the card wouldn't be cancelled, or perhaps she only started to use the card shortly before her arrest. Either way it probably wo
Jan 14, 2006, 1:09 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Three states replacing Lotto South gameNews Story
Like a tired mule whose best days are behind him, Lotto South is being retired and a fresh workhorse brought in to pick up the production.The three-state lottery game, which began in September 2001, will be replaced next month by a new game that pays winners $1,000 a week for the rest of their lives, Virginia Lottery interim executive director Donna M. VanCleave said Thursday. Virginia's Lotto South partners, Kentucky and Georgia, also will participate in the new Win For Life game.Lotto South
Jan 12, 2006, 6:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery's Raffle Drawing Creates Four New MillionairesReply
BLAIR COUNTY WOMAN CLAIMS FIRST OF FOUR, $1 MILLION PRIZES FROM LOTTERY RAFFLE DRAWINGRemaining top prize tickets were sold in Adams County, Allegheny County and Philadelphia MIDDLETOWN Marsa Albright of Martinsburg, Blair County, is the first to claim a $1 million top prize from the Pennsylvania Lotterys first-ever Millionaire Raffle game.The selection of four $1 million top-prize raffle tickets and five $100,000 second-prize raffle tickets, which came from a pool of just 500,000 tic
Jan 6, 2006, 2:00 pm - sirbrad - Lottery News

Breakfast buddies file suit over lottery ticketReply
Ohio Couple who won $250,000 playing Mega Million discovered the hard way that money can come between friends is a stupid statement. First off Friends don t steal from you. This couple stole $250,000 from people they were using. I run two lottery pools, one of my pools just turned 1 year old on Christmas Day. My Mega Million Pool will be two years old this coming February. My members, who number 18 to 27 people, always get copies of their tickets. I ask everyone who wants to play give me $1
Dec 31, 2005, 7:52 am - Michael E. Port - Lottery News

Breakfast buddies file suit over lottery ticketReply
The suit asks for a judgment of $350,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 in punitive damages and a finding that the Salcones not get any share of the winnings. The case is assigned to Judge Andrew Logan.Actually that's smart. They are suing for MORE than the ticket is worth, so he will settle the lawsuit by agreeing to split the money like he should have in the beginning. And if he doesn't settle, then the winnings will pay for lawyer's fee, court costs, and make him have to take out a
Dec 30, 2005, 12:51 pm - ChazzMatt - Lottery News

Breakfast buddies file suit over lottery ticketNews Story
A Howland, Ohio couple who won $250,000 playing Mega Millions discovered the hard way that money can come between friends.Michael Salcone and his wife, Theresa, of Gretchen Drive have been sued by 10 of Michael Salcone's former breakfast friends at the Elm Road McDonald's after a dispute arose over whose money bought a winning lottery ticket. I'm just astounded, Theresa Salcone said Wednesday when she learned of the suit, filed in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.According to the filing, the
Dec 29, 2005, 10:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

Newspaper takes a hard look at the N.J. LotteryReply
This Star-Ledger Investigative Report is a rehashing of the same old stuff. Yes...poor people are more interested in winning money than the rich are. Yes it can be argued that the concept is regressive ...however it is erroneous to refer to the Lottery as a form of regressive taxation. As defined by Webster's Dictionary...A Tax is a levy imposed by the state... That's the catch, the Sate is not imposing the Lottery Games on the poor, middle class or the rich. It is voluntary. The people pa
Dec 4, 2005, 11:06 am - demonter - Lottery News

Powerball lottery 'winner' turns coyReply
Ok, maybe we should all just change our names to West. Seems to be a very lucky name. SEVEN BUTLER COUNTY WOMEN SHARE $853,492 POWERBALL PRIZE --> National City Bank Employees share a second-tier prize from Oct. 19 Powerball drawingMIDDLETOWN -- The seven employees of a National City Bank branch located at364 Center Avenuein Butler jointly won an $853,492 prize in a recent Powerball drawing. Cindy Holben of Chicora and Marian West, Patricia Heyl, Deborah Schnur, Kimberly Hughes, Susan Sheptak
Oct 28, 2005, 3:42 pm - sirbrad - Lottery News