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Paul to run sales, advertising for Tenn. LotteryNews Story
Sales and marketing of the Tennessee lottery will be controlled by lottery head Rebecca Paul, while other aspects of running the games will be handed over to private vendors.That was the style Paul used when she ran the Georgia lottery for 10 years and that's how she plans to run the Tennessee lottery, she said yesterday.On her second day on the job, Paul made several recommendations to the Tennessee lottery board, including what she plans to include in two major contracts with gaming vendors.Bo
Sep 24, 2003, 3:45 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery limits track's winning ticket payoutsNews Story
The Massachusetts lottery will no longer allow the Raynham Park dog track to cash big ticket prizes after a state audit raised concerns that some people use the service to avoid paying taxes.Raynham Park is the only one of 7,300 sales agents that can cash ticket prizes of more than $600. Under the contract, it can cash ticket prizes up to $25,000.But the lottery notified track officials on Tuesday that they will have to comply with the $600 limit, effective in three weeks.Last year, 12 people ma
Sep 24, 2003, 3:40 am - Lottery News

Camelot launches daily lotteryNews Story
Camelot is launching its latest attempt to try revive public interest in the lottery by starting a daily draw which will offer better odds of winning smaller prizes.But the new Daily Play game faces competition from a rival draw being launched next month.Vernons, best known for running football pools, claim its Florida 4 game will offer a 20 per cent chance of winning as opposed to 12.5 per cent on Daily Play.Players on the 1 Daily Play draw - which takes place at 8.30pm, six days a week - sele
Sep 23, 2003, 3:52 am - Lottery News

Lottery CEO begins job early, says games could start Feb. 10News Story
Rebecca Paul began as director of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. more than a week early, meaning the first scratch-off games could be available for sale ahead of schedule.Paul, who was hired away from the Georgia Lottery on Sept. 8 to run Tennessees startup operation, was supposed to begin her new duties Oct. 1. Instead, she spent Monday pitching the games and their benefits to a Nashville civic group.One of the potential takers was Steven Greil, president of the Tennessee Performing Arts
Sep 23, 2003, 3:42 am - Lottery News

NJ Changes Cash 5 GameNews Story
The New Jersey State Lottery announced improvements to its Jersey Cash 5 game, starting with the September 15 drawing, that are designed to produce higher jackpots and more player excitement. Since its inception in 1992, Jersey Cash 5 has served as a roll-down game, whereby if there was no top winner (five out of five numbers), the jackpot was divided into the remaining prize pools (four out of five numbers). Jersey Cash 5 now will change to a roll over structure, where the jackpot grows an
Sep 22, 2003, 4:14 am - Lottery News

Paul gets brusque farewell from Georgia lottery boardNews Story
When Rebecca Paul gave three weeks' notice that she was stepping down as head of Georgia's lottery to start Tennessee's, her bosses showered her with praise and wished her well.Days later, the lottery's board of directors barred Paul from her desk and declared it wanted the $500,000-a-year executive gone yesterday literally.Officially, Paul's last day on the job became Sept. 5, two days before she phoned Georgia's governor and told him she had accepted the job of Tennessee Education Lottery Corp
Sep 20, 2003, 8:57 pm - Lottery News

Public backs HOPE limitsNews Story
Georgians' support for new restrictions on lottery-funded HOPE scholarships are stronger than previously thought, according to polling results presented to a state commission Thursday.The Peach State Poll, conducted by University of Georgia researchers, found significant public support for limiting the scholarships to four years and a flat $3,000 a year. I think it's a pretty discerning public, said state Rep. Louise McBee, D-Athens, a commission co-chairwoman.The panel - made up of lawmakers,
Sep 19, 2003, 10:07 am - Lottery News

DVL to Sell Retailers on Tennessee LotteryNews Story
Dye Van Mol Lawrence will handle public relations for the Tennessee Education Lottery, the state's first lottery, the agency said.The Nashville, Tenn., agency won the contract following a review against crosstown rivals the Ingram Group and Katcher Vaughn Bailey Communications. DVL will partner with African American shop Kinnard Associates and Caliente Consulting, a Hispanic agency.The shop's priority is to reach out to minority vendors, according to DVL partner Hank Dye. The state hopes t
Sep 18, 2003, 6:43 am - Lottery News

Texas lottery considers eliminating lotto ballsNews Story
The familiar white, numbered balls that have determined the winners of hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas lottery prizes may get bounced. The Texas Lottery Commission is taking a first, cautious step toward using a computer to replace the rubber balls used since the games began in 1992.It's early in the conceptual stage, but lottery officials have looked at computerized random number generator systems that, linked with animations, are used by a handful of lotteries to pick the winning nu
Sep 15, 2003, 4:16 am - Lottery News

Lotto Plus Going Back To Just Plain LottoNews Story
The long odds of winning the Washington state lottery will get slightly shorter.Starting Oct. 5, the state will drop the Plus from Lotto Plus and change the game to increase the number of winners.In Lotto Plus, players pick five numbers out of 43 and one number out of 23, giving them a 1-in-11 million chance of winning the jackpot in the Wednesday and Saturday drawings.The Saturday jackpot was $41 million, the highest it has been.Starting next month, six winning numbers will be randomly chosen
Sep 15, 2003, 4:08 am - Lottery News