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• Redd55

  

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  I dont want to exceed my monthly budget. I feel obligate to buy tickets when the pots get large.  When not - 1 ticket will suffice.  But they keep rolling over and when I do win a few dollars, it is much less then before. For example,  I got the power number last nite but it was only worth $3 bucks.  It use to be higher. 

  When MM makes it's changes next Oct, unless the pot is super large, I wont buy at all.  Too many changes work against the player all to the benefit of the state. 
• ressuccess

  

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  Redd55, I would recommend you to buy your Mega Millions at $2 per ticket if the jackpot is at least $1 Billion Dollars or more!

  I hope that one $2 ticket is the only one that matches all 5 numbers plus the PB to win the largest PB jackpot in United States history of over $2 Billion Dollars! I hope that one $2 ticket is the only one that matches all 5 numbers plus the Mega Ball to win the largest Mega Millions jackpot in United States history of over $2 Billion Dollars!
• Groppo

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Redd55 on Jul 13, 2017

  I dont want to exceed my monthly budget. I feel obligate to buy tickets when the pots get large.  When not - 1 ticket will suffice.  But they keep rolling over and when I do win a few dollars, it is much less then before. For example,  I got the power number last nite but it was only worth $3 bucks.  It use to be higher. 

  When MM makes it's changes next Oct, unless the pot is super large, I wont buy at all.  Too many changes work against the player all to the benefit of the state. 

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  I truly understand your situation, and think that most people here do.
  I wouldn't let this October's price hike on MM avert your present system.
  Please, if at all possible, remain consistent with your scheme.

  For the present time, just think of the prize, and
  just give all other things in your life, a back seat.
  (Example: $210 million VS. Clothes for your kids (yes, important, but . . . ),
  Braces for your oldest (yes, important, but . . .) 
  Take that view, at least for one time, and see how everything actually pans out.

  And good luck to all, on this Friday's drawing.

  • Don't chase the numbers you play.
    
  • Play only numbers you've already played, plus however many random picks.
    
  • But, ALWAYS the regular numbers you play.  This will make you a winner, not a chaser.
             (so far, though, I've yet to win any significant lotto prize)
    
  • Oh, but always know where your tickets are, as well as your ticket's deadline.
• wander73

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Redd55 on Jul 13, 2017

  I dont want to exceed my monthly budget. I feel obligate to buy tickets when the pots get large.  When not - 1 ticket will suffice.  But they keep rolling over and when I do win a few dollars, it is much less then before. For example,  I got the power number last nite but it was only worth $3 bucks.  It use to be higher. 

  When MM makes it's changes next Oct, unless the pot is super large, I wont buy at all.  Too many changes work against the player all to the benefit of the state. 

  I think it will be hit.   Take a look at a topic I just posted.  How is it the annuities are looking similiar?
• JeetKuneDoLotto

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Redd55 on Jul 13, 2017

  I dont want to exceed my monthly budget. I feel obligate to buy tickets when the pots get large.  When not - 1 ticket will suffice.  But they keep rolling over and when I do win a few dollars, it is much less then before. For example,  I got the power number last nite but it was only worth $3 bucks.  It use to be higher. 

  When MM makes it's changes next Oct, unless the pot is super large, I wont buy at all.  Too many changes work against the player all to the benefit of the state. 

  This game is very difficult.  According to this graph, the JP gets won only once a year!!

  https://www.lotterypost.com/game/9/jackpot

  (I dont know how to put the graph in directly)

  Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail, Which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of  battle and war?  JOB 38:22 HCSB
  
• Redd55

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by JeetKuneDoLotto on Jul 13, 2017

  This game is very difficult.  According to this graph, the JP gets won only once a year!!

  https://www.lotterypost.com/game/9/jackpot

  (I dont know how to put the graph in directly)

  The odds are one in 42 million which of course is much better than PB or MM.  This trend of going 6 months, 9 months, and now 5 months without a winner is recent. 
• WhoaMama

  

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  Will someone win tonight's MM drawing? I hope so, and I hope that MM winner is me. But I ain't sure if I'm playing tonight............

   

   

   

  Be honest......should we play or wait, especially with me having a monthly budget??

   

  (and wander73, if you want to give me strategy, would you give a simpler to use strategy, the lotto pyramid confuses me).
• Redd55

  

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  If MM rolls tonight, if goes up another $15 million to $ 232 million.  I guess -imate this as around a lump sum of $143 million.

  Good luck, everyone!   
• Redd55

  

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  $15 million seems to be the magic number! 

  If PB rolls tomorrow night, it goes up another $15 million to $187 million or  a lump sum of $116,400,000. This is $70,305,600 after federal taxes. 

  Not bad....