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When do you start buying MM or PB?

It doesn't matter.

[ 5 ]

[ 20.0% ]

$20 Million

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[ 16.0% ]

$100 Million

[ 2 ]

[ 8.0% ]

$200 Million

[ 3 ]

[ 12.0% ]

$500 Million

[ 4 ]

[ 16.0% ]

$1 Billion

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$2 Billion

[ 0 ]

[ 0.0% ]

I never buy.

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[ 8.0% ]

Secret.

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[ 0.0% ]

Sometimes.

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[ 16.0% ]

Total valid votes

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Discarded votes

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JackpotWanna

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Dec 26, 2025, 12:59 am

I start buying when the jackpot reaches $500 million.
JustMaybe

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Dec 26, 2025, 2:27 am

I buy my tickets anytime, I even have my one PB ticket for the upcoming Saturday draw.

Winning is all luck and luck favors those that are prepared, one needs to seek it out.

I believe winning the lottery jackpot is a 💯 % factor of luck.

May Fortuna, goddess of chance or lot vindicate me.
rcbbuckeye

100

Texas
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Dec 26, 2025, 8:42 am

No MM.

PB...when I feel it's time, not necessarily jackpot amount. Depends on where the jackpot level on TX Lotto is. Right now it's Lotto time. If it gets hit, then I might switch to PB because 2nd prize odds are less than half Lotto odds.

JUST LOOK AT THE ODDS OF ANY JACKPOT GAME, THAT WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
GiveFive

Florida's West Coast
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June 10, 2010
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Dec 26, 2025, 8:44 am

I buy only buy PB and I buy them whenever because I really don't care what the jackpot amount is. I play for a second place prize. G5

Play Smart! That's IF there is such a thing as playing smartly!!
Tucker Black

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Dec 26, 2025, 4:52 pm

Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Dec 26, 2025
I buy only buy PB and I buy them whenever because I really don't care what the jackpot amount is. I play for a second place prize. G5

A 1 in 12 million chance to win $2 million is worth 16 cents. Why would you spend $3 on something worth 16 cents? That's stupid.
Justing618

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Dec 26, 2025, 5:34 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Dec 26, 2025
A 1 in 12 million chance to win $2 million is worth 16 cents. Why would you spend $3 on something worth 16 cents? That's stupid.

People can do whatever they want with their money Elmer Fudd.... I don't understand what part of that you don't understand.
Coin Toss

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Dec 26, 2025, 5:54 pm

So which one is the so called 'Measly millions' now, pb at $20M oir MM at $125M?
Coin Toss

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Dec 26, 2025, 6:20 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Dec 26, 2025
A 1 in 12 million chance to win $2 million is worth 16 cents. Why would you spend $3 on something worth 16 cents? That's stupid.

Becuase that 2nbd place prize is woerth $2 million if you win it. You would save 16 cernts to rosk hittoing $2Million? That's wgat is stupid.
Justing618

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Dec 26, 2025, 6:57 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Dec 26, 2025
Becuase that 2nbd place prize is woerth $2 million if you win it. You would save 16 cernts to rosk hittoing $2Million? That's wgat is stupid.

I'm sure his Elmer Fudd math did not process that part. 😂But yea!..... I definitely would not be complaining if I won tonight. Good luck if your playing tonight.
grwurston

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Same digits. Different games.

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Dec 26, 2025, 9:40 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Dec 26, 2025
So which one is the so called 'Measly millions' now, pb at $20M oir MM at $125M?

Lots of people might call it "measly", but hardly any would say, "I don't want it" if they were to actually win it.

List Pick 3 singles by low sums, high sums. Separate each sum row by consecutive pair and non consecutive pair combos. These 3 pair groups. 14 17 47, 25 28 58, 36 39 69 are in 63 combos. 54 combos do not have them. Which sums do the 3 pair groups appear and not appear? Look at root sum groups 147, 258, 369. Play accordingly.
Tucker Black

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Dec 26, 2025, 11:49 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Dec 26, 2025
Becuase that 2nbd place prize is woerth $2 million if you win it. You would save 16 cernts to rosk hittoing $2Million? That's wgat is stupid.

If you win it, of course. But at the time you buy the ticket, you haven't won yet.

A smart gambler considers the probability of winning. A 1 in 12 million chance to win $2 million is pretty crappy.
KY Floyd

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Dec 27, 2025, 10:02 am

"Becuase that 2nbd place prize is woerth $2 million if you win it. You would save 16 cernts to rosk hittoing $2Million "

How bad do the odds need to be before everyone realizes how stupid it is to say it makes sense to buy a ticket because "2nd place is worth $2 million"?
Coin Toss

Zeta Reticuli Star System
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Dec 27, 2025, 9:55 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Dec 26, 2025
If you win it, of course. But at the time you buy the ticket, you haven't won yet.

A smart gambler considers the probability of winning. A 1 in 12 million chance to win $2 million is pretty crappy.

The Las Vegas definitipon of a true gambler:

A true gambler will bet as much as they can to win as muchas they can in as fast as they can.

There are thousands, no millions of instances of sopmeone in Vegas making bets on high percentage for the house bets while some ''genius from Providence' on the same table tells them they shouldn't be mjaking such bets while tjhe person making tjhose beyts is wining mmore and more money.

Figues this one out, on a craps table there is a horn bet, 2, 3, 11 and 12 in one bet, all the nturals except 7, and oddly very oftehn they hit on after anotyher after another. Hitting a horn bet and paralying it is a very nice bet that comes with a nice payoff.
Justing618

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Dec 27, 2025, 11:27 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Tucker Black on Dec 26, 2025
If you win it, of course. But at the time you buy the ticket, you haven't won yet.

A smart gambler considers the probability of winning. A 1 in 12 million chance to win $2 million is pretty crappy.

What game cost 3 dollars or less. With the chance to win 2 million dollars with better odds Elmer? Let alone hundreds of millions.......
Random Player

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Dec 28, 2025, 12:47 am

I usually start when the post-tax cash value is over $100M.

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