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• HoLeeKau

  

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  Anyone know exactly when the machines stop selling tickets?
• maringoman

  

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  In my state MA on the day of the drawing the betting pools close at 9:50 pm ea.

  That money's gone fo ever
• HoLeeKau

  

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  That would be 7:50 my time.  So more than an hour before the draw?
• maringoman

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by HoLeeKau on May 11, 2013

  That would be 7:50 my time.  So more than an hour before the draw?

  Yessir. The states must have come up with the rule to avoid last minute confusions.

  That money's gone fo ever
• HoLeeKau

  

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  Thanks for the info MM.  Glad I asked.  I was thinking it was just 5 or 10 minutes before the draw.  I'm gonna try buying a QP just before it closes tonight since I don't think I've ever tried that.
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  Quote: Originally posted by HoLeeKau on May 11, 2013

  Anyone know exactly when the machines stop selling tickets?

  Powerball betting stops at 7.00pm on the West Coast.

   Bummer if you here at 6.59pm Wednesday & Saturday.
• rdgrnr

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by HoLeeKau on May 11, 2013

  Anyone know exactly when the machines stop selling tickets?

  10 pm ET in East TN.

  An hour before the drawing.
• HoLeeKau

  

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  I won!  I won!

  I matched the PowerBall on the ticket I bought just before the machines closed.  Better than I've done on PB in ages.
• maringoman

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by HoLeeKau on May 12, 2013

  I won!  I won!

  I matched the PowerBall on the ticket I bought just before the machines closed.  Better than I've done on PB in ages.

  Did you add the powerplay? I hope you did

  That money's gone fo ever
• HoLeeKau

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by maringoman on May 12, 2013

  Did you add the powerplay? I hope you did

  Nope.   
• RedStang

  

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  I don't think our vending machines stop selling tickets. I've bought them at 1am, and it assigns the ticket to what time/day you hit the machine. Not sure about the counter machines.

  
• Wheeler

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by HoLeeKau on May 11, 2013

  Anyone know exactly when the machines stop selling tickets?

  I once had the opposite problem. Trying to PB/MM tickets but the convient store I went to wouldn't sell me any until about 6 A M. I quit going to that store.

   God Bless America

   

  
• HoLeeKau

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Wheeler on May 12, 2013

  I once had the opposite problem. Trying to PB/MM tickets but the convient store I went to wouldn't sell me any until about 6 A M. I quit going to that store.

  Years ago the stores here did the same.  The c-store closest to me got a new guy working evenings, and he would shut it down 45 minutes before he was supposed to.  I should have called their corporate office, but I just quit going there.  That location shut down not long after.