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Quote: Originally posted by GetReal720 on Apr 3, 2015
Stopped in between my first job and my second job, and played some tickets.
The WoZ pack was at number 43, so they sold a few this morning. I grab two of those.
043 - $10 w monkey symbol
044 - $10 w monkey symbol
I grab 4 of the solid gold tickets as well.
059 - $10 winner
000 - loser
001 - loser
002 - loser
$40 in an $30 back out.
With playing yesterday and today, I am now an even $350 in the hole. Still, that's an improvement I guess.
Good luck everyone!
My strange Wednesday lead to an even stranger Thursday/Friday. I cashed my $190 in and got 1 each of alot of tickets. Played $20 with my grandmom at my dads and then stopped at a place I seldom pass for another $100 in tickets. I didn't scratch any yesterday and did all the rest today. I hit 5-$50 tickets.. All my wins were basically $50. The $190 worth paid $100 and the $100 worth paid $160..
Cher.... I feel ya with the people getting in your business. When I play next to work, I won't play if a co worker is in the store. Some people know I play, but not sure of the volume. I will buy 1 or 2 if they are there, but if I plan to buy in bulk, I wait til they leave. It's my money and I can spend it on whatever I want. I just don't need it getting around.
I only browsed the other posts.. Nice wins to the people hitting. Hope we find the big one soon.
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Mom bought 5 $2 lucky life $2000 a month tickets and they were 69 thru 73. 69 was a free ticket, 70 was a dud, 71 was a dud and 72 was a dud. Lastly 73 was a dud. So $10 in and a free ticket out.-weshar75
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I cashed in my other tickets today and got this $5 Diamond Dollars (#22) which ended winning $75. I like to scratch the Bonus first and it was fun because I got the win $50 moneybag symbol.
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Quote: Originally posted by omiller315 on Apr 3, 2015
My strange Wednesday lead to an even stranger Thursday/Friday. I cashed my $190 in and got 1 each of alot of tickets. Played $20 with my grandmom at my dads and then stopped at a place I seldom pass for another $100 in tickets. I didn't scratch any yesterday and did all the rest today. I hit 5-$50 tickets.. All my wins were basically $50. The $190 worth paid $100 and the $100 worth paid $160..
Cher.... I feel ya with the people getting in your business. When I play next to work, I won't play if a co worker is in the store. Some people know I play, but not sure of the volume. I will buy 1 or 2 if they are there, but if I plan to buy in bulk, I wait til they leave. It's my money and I can spend it on whatever I want. I just don't need it getting around.
I only browsed the other posts.. Nice wins to the people hitting. Hope we find the big one soon.
I'm in the same sort of boat. I openly talk about my playing at my first, now part time, job. I don't really care what they think or say, as it wouldn't really matter to me or bother me at all if I quit that job tomorrow. Some people are a bit judgemental, scoffing at the idea of buying a $20 ticket and losing. Same kinda folks who spending 100$ + dollars a week on cigarettes or going out to the bar. A few others are casual ish players, one a little more than casual but doesn't play as much as I do (which isn't that much really).
My second job I prefer not to talk about it, a lot of people look down on it for some reason. It's not like I'm gambling myself out of control to where I'm risking being able to eat every day, pay my bills or keep a roof over my head. Not even close to anything like that. I'm actually one of the biggest tightwads there are, but I prefer to consider myself financial intelligent as apposed to very very cheap. The lotto tickets can be addicting, but I do like playing them. Last year I won $6000.00 approximately and to get that I spent $3000 of my own money. Roughly being ahead $3000 is fantastic, and I know enough to know when to stop. Sure I chase some days, but again I'm not putting anything in jeopardy when I do. I'd wager that I probably have at least twice as much money in the bank as most of the people who have had "input" on how much I play tickets. That's coming from a kid who's got 45K worth of student debt still, and pays $800 a month out just for that. I support myself entirely, pay my student loans and still have money to save.
But in the end, it's no ones business what I do with however much money I do or do not have. I don't make it public knowledge to the other company I work for, because I have a great career in front of me and I don't want something so stupid as judgement on a thing like playing lotto tickets to have any effect on that career.
I might go cash in that $30 worth of tickets and play a bit more later today. Good luck to everyone.
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Quote: Originally posted by GetReal720 on Apr 4, 2015
I'm in the same sort of boat. I openly talk about my playing at my first, now part time, job. I don't really care what they think or say, as it wouldn't really matter to me or bother me at all if I quit that job tomorrow. Some people are a bit judgemental, scoffing at the idea of buying a $20 ticket and losing. Same kinda folks who spending 100$ + dollars a week on cigarettes or going out to the bar. A few others are casual ish players, one a little more than casual but doesn't play as much as I do (which isn't that much really).
My second job I prefer not to talk about it, a lot of people look down on it for some reason. It's not like I'm gambling myself out of control to where I'm risking being able to eat every day, pay my bills or keep a roof over my head. Not even close to anything like that. I'm actually one of the biggest tightwads there are, but I prefer to consider myself financial intelligent as apposed to very very cheap. The lotto tickets can be addicting, but I do like playing them. Last year I won $6000.00 approximately and to get that I spent $3000 of my own money. Roughly being ahead $3000 is fantastic, and I know enough to know when to stop. Sure I chase some days, but again I'm not putting anything in jeopardy when I do. I'd wager that I probably have at least twice as much money in the bank as most of the people who have had "input" on how much I play tickets. That's coming from a kid who's got 45K worth of student debt still, and pays $800 a month out just for that. I support myself entirely, pay my student loans and still have money to save.
But in the end, it's no ones business what I do with however much money I do or do not have. I don't make it public knowledge to the other company I work for, because I have a great career in front of me and I don't want something so stupid as judgement on a thing like playing lotto tickets to have any effect on that career.
I might go cash in that $30 worth of tickets and play a bit more later today. Good luck to everyone.
First off... the person above with the 4-$32 matches. That was pretty cool to see. I remember when PA had payouts like that. I remember $24 or $48 for instance and still think you saw them more often back then. We didn't have $20 so they were usually on $2 or $5 tickets.
Get Real.. totally agree. I am far from rich, but this is my "fun". I know people who scoff at it.. They may have season tickets to AHL hockey, or spend tons of money on their car or whatever. We each have our things that make us happy and choose to spend the money on it. Of course lottery doesn't always make you happy, but it's the what if that could come of it. I would never gamble money that was meant for bills, food, family etc and never miss a birthday cause I was in a casino like those gambling commercials.lol .
I did cash my $260 in today. I knew the one beer place still has the Peppermint tix. I figured I would go there and see what # it was on. It was on 15, so I ended the roll. I have seen too many $20 rolls pay either back or front half. Plus I still prefer the older tickets to the newer ones with the $20's.. The only way I will ever buy in bulk of one ticket is to end the roll anymore. I would have never done the 1st 15, cause if they sucked, I would be tempted to have to go back for more. From now on I am sticking to the 1 of each approach vs the chasing aspect. I didn't scratch them and will later tonight and post my results.
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One of the gas stations where i buy my tickets sold a $100000 grand prize winner on $5 Extreme Green game and a $5000 winner on $10 Big Money ticket in the same day....i got there just a little too late, both were sold 15-30 minutes before i got there. $100K would have been very nice. My area has had a lot of good tickets lately and I myself has been pretty lucky. I won $500 on a 3$ crossword the other day but didn't take a picture because i just scanned the ticket. Here are some other recent winners i got........
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Hi Playernumbertwo,
You are really tearing it up this year!! I wonder if you play as much as I do with all your big winners. Anyway, a great big congratulations to you and enjoy playing. I really hope you get the life changer soon!
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Sharing this for more proof about the spread of a pack of tickets. I cashed my peppermints and those $320 only got back $140, but turned that back into $300. I figured I would go for a roll of $20's knowing I would hit decent or worse case be even and not owe money. I take the pack win me and pay him the next day after I see what I owe vs paying for it all up front. I figured it was better than nickel and diming random packs. That pack paid back $285.. $160 of it was in the final 3 tickets. Glutton for punishment I get a 2nd roll. same tickets($20-Supercash). The 1st 8 tickets paid back $170 and the 1st ten paid back $190... I think I am actually going to stop and return the rest. I only rip them one at a time and he can return the rest to the lottery. I know there is that risk there is $1,000,000 in there, but not sure I want to risk the final $400 maybe paying back $100.. Goes to show I have seen packs totally front or back loaded and rarely ever see a 60/40 or 50/50 split in the 1st 15 vs last 15 tix.
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Quote: Originally posted by omiller315 on Apr 7, 2015
Sharing this for more proof about the spread of a pack of tickets. I cashed my peppermints and those $320 only got back $140, but turned that back into $300. I figured I would go for a roll of $20's knowing I would hit decent or worse case be even and not owe money. I take the pack win me and pay him the next day after I see what I owe vs paying for it all up front. I figured it was better than nickel and diming random packs. That pack paid back $285.. $160 of it was in the final 3 tickets. Glutton for punishment I get a 2nd roll. same tickets($20-Supercash). The 1st 8 tickets paid back $170 and the 1st ten paid back $190... I think I am actually going to stop and return the rest. I only rip them one at a time and he can return the rest to the lottery. I know there is that risk there is $1,000,000 in there, but not sure I want to risk the final $400 maybe paying back $100.. Goes to show I have seen packs totally front or back loaded and rarely ever see a 60/40 or 50/50 split in the 1st 15 vs last 15 tix.
This will be my last post for awhile. I handed that roll of tickets back. After work I went back over. The 1st 10 paid $190. While there I played the next 5 and that paid $50. So after 15 tickets(technically 12 as 10/11 hit) and $300 there was 7 winners and $240 back.. The last 15(technically 18) tickets had 2 winners and $45 in winnings. I should have stopped. I should have seen the 50/50 split before and how it is usually 90/10 for front/back. I guess I feared giving back a good winner. Yeah well. I am done for awhile. PA really needs to work on evening packs out better. Hope someone here hits big....