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bigbear29

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Feb 20, 2014, 6:53 am

If you live in a small sales lottery state, should you give up on playing powerball and mega millions?
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Feb 20, 2014, 7:16 am

Quote: Originally posted by bigbear29 on Feb 20, 2014
If you live in a small sales lottery state, should you give up on playing powerball and mega millions?

It really is not the "state" that wins it is the ticketholder. When the numbers come up they don't care which state a person purchased the ticket from. It can be the smallest state or the largest. There were 17 or 18 runner ups in this draw it could have been anyone of them. All you have to do is be lucky enough to pick the right numbers. And my answer to your question living in a small lottery state is, no.
maringoman

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Feb 20, 2014, 7:42 am

What's a person to do when the next person refuses to see logic?

That money's gone fo ever
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Ringleader

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Feb 20, 2014, 11:26 am

Quote: Originally posted by bigbear29 on Feb 20, 2014
If you live in a small sales lottery state, should you give up on playing powerball and mega millions?

why?
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Feb 20, 2014, 11:39 am

Quote: Originally posted by bigbear29 on Feb 20, 2014
If you live in a small sales lottery state, should you give up on playing powerball and mega millions?

I have always been told it's not the size !!!.... but that you get in and play....

Si vis pacem, para bellum.
bigbear29

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Feb 20, 2014, 11:44 am

Have you seen comments on sales amounts in Ca. or NY. ? That's why there are more winners. Either it's sales amounts, odds, just luck or logic?
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Feb 20, 2014, 2:42 pm

Small states have won big before like Rhode Island and West Virginia. I believe both were single Powerball jackpot winners over $300 million.

Didn't West Virginia also have a slew of nice 7 figure winners recently?
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Feb 20, 2014, 2:50 pm

Quote: Originally posted by bigbear29 on Feb 20, 2014
If you live in a small sales lottery state, should you give up on playing powerball and mega millions?

No, the odds of winning are the same for every player regardless of their state.

* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
LottoMetro

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Feb 20, 2014, 3:43 pm

Quote: Originally posted by bigbear29 on Feb 20, 2014
If you live in a small sales lottery state, should you give up on playing powerball and mega millions?

How do you think someone who lives in the U.S. Virgin Islands and plays PB/MM feels?

If the chances of winning the jackpot are so slim, why play when the jackpot is so small? Your chances never change, but the potential payoff does.
If a crystal ball showed you the future of the rest of your life, and in that future you will never win a jackpot, would you still play?

P&L % = Total Win($)/Total Wager($) - 1
bigbear29

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Feb 20, 2014, 3:47 pm

Bad, really really bad. Have they ever won?
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Feb 20, 2014, 6:09 pm

I've never felt bad about any one except me not winning in my state. If anyone except me wins in my state, it's not going to change my life.

* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
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Ringleader

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Feb 20, 2014, 6:11 pm

Quote: Originally posted by RJOh on Feb 20, 2014
No, the odds of winning are the same for every player regardless of their state.

Common sense prevails.
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Feb 20, 2014, 6:28 pm

a ticket is a ticket no matter what the state has nothing to do with it,,,, the reason there are more winners in other populated states is because more peop l buy tickets common sense
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Feb 20, 2014, 6:33 pm

Quote: Originally posted by bigbear29 on Feb 20, 2014
If you live in a small sales lottery state, should you give up on playing powerball and mega millions?

You should buy a house in South Florida right next door to a Publix Store and start hanging out around the service desk and try to hear what they're saying.

Listen for the code words.

When you hear the manager tell the clerk that "we're going to have a jackpot winner here tonight", start buying tickets like a wild man gone insane.
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Feb 20, 2014, 6:34 pm

Oh Zanbab1, that's what the topic is about.

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