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Franky79

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Feb 26, 2012, 10:42 am

Few facts about HArtsdale

Estimated median Income: $98,263 (2009)

Median house or condo vAlue: $424,337

Races in Hartsdale: White-64.4%

Hispanic-13.7%

Asian- 12%

black- 7.7%

57% have a bachelor degree

AND...sight of the first Carvel Ice Cream store and Pet Cemetary in the USA
mcginnin56

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Feb 26, 2012, 10:56 am

Excellent location for the new Powerball winner!

Congratulations!!!
RedStang

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Feb 26, 2012, 11:21 am

Figures, sold just south from me. Probably bought from your average joe. Alot of the famous people are alittle north of there. I can't believe Long Island had another second place winner, most likely sold at a 7-11.
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Feb 26, 2012, 11:26 am

Quote: Originally posted by Franky79 on Feb 26, 2012
Few facts about HArtsdale

Estimated median Income: $98,263 (2009)

Median house or condo vAlue: $424,337

Races in Hartsdale: White-64.4%

Hispanic-13.7%

Asian- 12%

black- 7.7%

57% have a bachelor degree

AND...sight of the first Carvel Ice Cream store and Pet Cemetary in the USA

YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT.

"WHICH HAS THE BETTER CHANCE OF WINNING: COMPUTER PICKS OR PLAYER PICKS?

About 70% to 80% of purchases are computer picks. About 70% to80% of winners are computer picks. Perhaps just one of those weird coincidences?"

"HOW COME THE ONLY JACKPOT WINNERS ARE FROM THE [EAST - WEST - NORTH - SOUTH - CITIES - RURAL AREAS]? HOW COME ONLY [WHITE, BLACK, TALL, SKINNY, YOUNG, OLD] PEOPLE WIN?

Powerball is a random game that knows nothing about who buys a ticket or where a ticket is purchased. There really is no white/black/old/young/rich/poor, etc.] button on the machine. If one draws a box around some group of players (eg., state border, hair color, shoe size), then that group of players will win in proportion to their play. If the defined group buys 10% of the tickets, then they will win 10% of the prizes - on average and over a reasonable period of time. But that does NOT mean that you have a better chance of winning in a bigger box - you then just have more folks to play against. The Law of Large numbers explains how random expectations become truer as the number of occurrences increases. So, if players in a particular group buy 8.6754% of the tickets, then we will find, if the number of occurrences (prizes awarded) are large enough, that those players win 8.6754% of the prizes. This is definitely true for the low-tier prizes where there are large numbers of winners. With 12 to 15 jackpot winners in a year, we would expect that these percentages can get out of sync with sales from time to time, but as the number of jackpot winners continues to increase, we will find that the percentage numbers move closer and closer to being the same number. Try this experiment. Flip a coin four times. You might get 75% heads - or even 100%. You would not expect to get excited about that. With only ten flips, it can happen. But then flip it 1,000 times (no cheating). You will come much closer to the statistical expectation of 50% heads. If you hit 75% heads after 1,000 flips, then something is wrong. It really does NOT make any difference where you buy your ticket. It is you a against the draw machine."
Piaceri

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Feb 26, 2012, 11:49 am

Here come the race baiting, class warfare, share the wealth crowd.... wait for it.... in five, four, three.....

singlewinnersinglewinnersinglewinner
dallascowboyfan

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Feb 26, 2012, 11:56 am

Congrats to the winner/winners
dallascowboyfan

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Feb 26, 2012, 11:59 am

Quote: Originally posted by Piaceri on Feb 26, 2012
Here come the race baiting, class warfare, share the wealth crowd.... wait for it.... in five, four, three.....

I hope not Piaceri..............................
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Feb 26, 2012, 12:01 pm

Hey! Great job.

Keep up the good luck.

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hearsetrax

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Feb 26, 2012, 12:06 pm

Congrats to the winner/s and I hope they were space aliens
maxamillion

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Feb 26, 2012, 2:38 pm

I am wondering why some state lotteries publicize the city, and even the retail location, where a jackpot winning ticket was sold before the prize is claimed.

It seems that some do and some don't?

Isn't that one of the important pieces of information for confirming the claimant of the winning ticket?
KY Floyd

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Feb 26, 2012, 3:10 pm

Quote: Originally posted by maxamillion on Feb 26, 2012
I am wondering why some state lotteries publicize the city, and even the retail location, where a jackpot winning ticket was sold before the prize is claimed.

It seems that some do and some don't?

Isn't that one of the important pieces of information for confirming the claimant of the winning ticket?

That's very definitely useful information for security purposes. NY also prints the exact time of sale (to the second) on the ticket, along with a simple number identifying the retailer. If somebody finds or steals your winning ticket for one of NY's online games they'll know when it was bought, and with some effort they can probably know where it was bought.

The NY legislature is notorious for being dysfunctional. Maybe somebody making decisions at NY lottery HQ is the less-than-qualified nephew of somebody with pull.
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Feb 26, 2012, 3:11 pm

You wouldn't believe how many people don't check the ticket till they hear it came from "their" area or store. At least that's what they say on the interview . . . plus looking at that "Lucky Mile" place where so many people win (and lots more purchase) I'm sure the publicity increases lottery sales for the store for the months preceding the claim.
hamdz

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Feb 26, 2012, 4:29 pm

always new york even second prizes
Bigheadnick

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Feb 28, 2012, 6:51 pm

Nice bait post lol. Honestly who cares about the racial make up of the winning area ? Or the income for that matter ? I don't. Nor do I care all that much if a well off person wins or a poor shmuck like me. Everyone who plays deserves to win if they're numbers are called. Only thing that I can possibly consider is the nature of the person. It's nice to see a good person win from whatever race or walk of life. Other than that meh.
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Feb 28, 2012, 10:11 pm

Quote: Originally posted by hamdz on Feb 26, 2012
always new york even second prizes

Guess I must be blind(looking at powerball homepage) Cause the 2nd largest available AND ONLY prize was in FLORIDA...3rd went to GA, IL & NY

Over the last 37 months of Jackpot winners..NY as of Saturday night finally Tied FLORIDA with 4 winners....but the New York total amount is 443 Million for 4 jackpot wins while FLORIDA is at $506 Million for 4 wins.....Indiana who has 3 wins is in 2nd place with a total amount of $458 Million for 3 wins. So as far as , "always new york" is concerned ??? .....

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