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• TheMeatman2005

  

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  Oct 17, 2018, 6:49 am

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  I was watching this video on YouTube and at 2:01 they reference a news story that was on Lottery Post back on June 6, 2006.

  The video was published on Feb 24, 2015.

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• CDanaT

  

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  Oct 17, 2018, 8:31 am

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  Excellent find MM....a good reminder that money doesn't resolve issues involving friends/coworkers/family or medical.

  Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
• Tucker Black

  

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  Oct 17, 2018, 6:21 pm

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  Thanks for the video. This is more evidence that lottery pools are a very bad idea IMHO. Just play by yourself.

  You must have bulletproof paperwork to survive the attacks that will occur in situations like this. Even then expect to go to court fighting against these nasty parasites.

  Splitting a fake jackpot of $315 million with a bunch of other people in a lottery pool and then having to spend a bunch of money on lawyers to fight back against parasites is no fun! No sleep for two months, my goodness! :(

  A jackpot of $1 million lump sum would be ideal, but people are just too darn greedy and they want "hundreds" of millions of dollars, which ends up not being that much when you consider the fakeness of the jackpot and the massive reduction in prize monies you get in a lottery pool.
• Stack47

  

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  Oct 17, 2018, 9:22 pm

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  In response to Tucker Black

  Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Oct 17, 2018

  Thanks for the video. This is more evidence that lottery pools are a very bad idea IMHO. Just play by yourself.

  You must have bulletproof paperwork to survive the attacks that will occur in situations like this. Even then expect to go to court fighting against these nasty parasites.

  Splitting a fake jackpot of $315 million with a bunch of other people in a lottery pool and then having to spend a bunch of money on lawyers to fight back against parasites is no fun! No sleep for two months, my goodness! :(

  A jackpot of $1 million lump sum would be ideal, but people are just too darn greedy and they want "hundreds" of millions of dollars, which ends up not being that much when you consider the fakeness of the jackpot and the massive reduction in prize monies you get in a lottery pool.

  A decent estimate of the after taxes cash is around 1/3 of the advertised jackpot, but we should be talking about the cash value rather than an before tax estimate of how much a player can get if they wait 29 years to collect their winnings. 

  Almost as bad as America's Got Talent $1 million prize in 40 equal yearly installments.