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• Think

  

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  Sep 25, 2016, 2:59 pm

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  What would you do different with the Michigan Lottery?
• Tatototman65

  

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  I might come back to the thread with some other ideas, but the main thing off the top of my head:
  
  *Get rid of the RNG computer drawings!!! I refuse to play them. Poker is my life, and I don't even play the Poker Lotto because of the RNG computer drawings. Simply put, I don't trust them.
  
  

  *If you live in IL and want legal regulated online poker... Click on me
  *How much money could Illinois make from regulated iGaming? Click on me
  *If you live in Michigan and want legal regulated online poker... Click on me
  
  
• QuickDrawDude

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Tatototman65 on Sep 25, 2016

  I might come back to the thread with some other ideas, but the main thing off the top of my head:
  
  *Get rid of the RNG computer drawings!!! I refuse to play them. Poker is my life, and I don't even play the Poker Lotto because of the RNG computer drawings. Simply put, I don't trust them.
  
  

  I never play the Hoosier Lottery Poker Lotto for the same reason.

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• Think

  

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  Ok, I took a day to let other people comment before I posted.
  
  I would weed out the awful games like Daily Keno and Poker Lotto.  MSL has done this before when they ended Change Play and Zinger and Lucky Lines and that one weird card game they ended around the time the daily 4 came out (among others they ended).
  
  There are too many games to have the rotten ones.
  
  Next I would maintain the online ticket cost at $1 but would make up for the inflation element by offering optional extras.
  
  As an example  I would have a $1 option on the Classic 47 that would pay out $5,000,000 cash along with the jackpot if you won the jackpot and paid for that option.  Next I would have a $1 option that would pay out fixed prizes if you won at the other prize levels
  
  For example if you won a prize and paid the $1 you would get $5 plus the Optional fixed prize through $2500 plus the optional fixed prize.
  
  I would offer both the Jackpot and the $5,000,000 cash as cash or annuities so you could take both as cash both as annuities or one as cash and the other as an annuity.  ( I suppose you would have to cap the liability to 5 or so $5,000,000 prizes ($25million cash) per draw (or whatever)
  
  I would do similar things with Fantasy 5.
  
  I would add the Daily 3 & 4 Options that we don't already have.
  
  As far as the Multistates I would encourage the MUSL to switch the Powerball to a $5 LottoMax style ticket with a $300,000,000 Cash cap on the Top jackpot prize With better odds
• Think

  

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  I would have more disclosures on the website about scratch tickets like other states do.  Like having the overall payout for each game at the start.
  
  And when you look to see what prizes are still around I would not list them as "available" I would list them as "unclaimed".
  
  I would have more tickets with symbols or prize amounts to match instead of numbers matchers.

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