*** Official Powerball/Mega Millions thread, now $170/20million***

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Hogview, Oct 27, 2011.

  1. Arkadin

    Arkadin inefficiently efficent and unclearly clear
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    70 percent of tickets sold are quick picks

    Wanna guess the percentage of winning tickets that are quick picks
     
  2. Arrec Bardwin

    Arrec Bardwin La Araña Discoteca
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    Probably about 70
     
  3. Arkadin

    Arkadin inefficiently efficent and unclearly clear
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    Genius I tell you
     
  4. Arrec Bardwin

    Arrec Bardwin La Araña Discoteca
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    Its hilarious when people think they can somehow outsmart the lottery.
     
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  5. slogan119

    slogan119 Her?
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    91.6%
     
  6. Hogview

    Hogview Fan of the Green board, Razorbacks
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    Now a half billion dollar estimate :ohnoes:
     
  7. I <3 bama cock

    I <3 bama cock Sharks are born swimming
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    that shit cray
     
  8. BTH

    BTH The most precious possession...is your own people.
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  9. Where Eagles Dare

    Where Eagles Dare The Specialist Show On Earth
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    Biggest Jackpot ever??

    I can't remember one ever being over $400.
     
  10. BTH

    BTH The most precious possession...is your own people.
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    It pisses me off that someone, not me, is going to win that fucking thing.
     
  11. $P1

    $P1 Ball State #1
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  12. beerleagueman

    beerleagueman Well-Known Member

    Powerball State :crossedarms:
     
  13. Clubber Lang

    Clubber Lang High Potentate
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    if it makes you feel any better, it will probably be some elderly person a year or three away from death.
     
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  14. BTH

    BTH The most precious possession...is your own people.
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    With that high of a jackpot; I'd take the annuity payments. It wouldn't even matter at that point.
     
  15. Festus McBadass

    Festus McBadass Cool ass dog and 5 star recruit
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  16. BTH

    BTH The most precious possession...is your own people.
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    Or a fucking minority.
     
  17. Festus McBadass

    Festus McBadass Cool ass dog and 5 star recruit
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    It's right at $19MM a year. No way you could spend that much a year.
     
  18. Where Eagles Dare

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    Fuck that shit.

    I'd rather have 270 million in my bank account than getting 500,000 a month.
     
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  19. Hogview

    Hogview Fan of the Green board, Razorbacks
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    :cmonson:
     
  20. BTH

    BTH The most precious possession...is your own people.
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    I'd look at as a job paying me $15 mil a year. You'd still be banking 10-12 of that even if you were spending like a Saudi Prince.
     
  21. Hogview

    Hogview Fan of the Green board, Razorbacks
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    You could put 50 mil into safe as fuck, long term, tax free bonds and just live off the interest payments.
     
  22. Festus McBadass

    Festus McBadass Cool ass dog and 5 star recruit
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  23. BTH

    BTH The most precious possession...is your own people.
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    If you did take the lump sum; People would be coming out of the woodwork. "Bro, remember in 8th grade you said if you or I ever won the lottery we'd give each other $5 mil"

    I'd be like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30YW3wgRvyI :edmond: :yaoface:
     
  24. Hogview

    Hogview Fan of the Green board, Razorbacks
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    B. Smith don't want to put all your eggs in one basket :justsayin:
     
  25. $P1

    $P1 Ball State #1
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    Kid knocks on door (somehow got past my guards)....

    Random fucking kid: Hello Sir Stinky P1nky (I would have myself knighted at this point), I play baseball for the Local HS Tigers and we're offering these discount cards for $25. you get discounts at a bunch of shitty places and you'll probably lose the card within a week, will you buy one to support our team and keep us off the mean streets of StinkyP1nkyville?

    SP: LOL GIVE ME 300 OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS :yaoface:

    In the background..Ted Dibiase's entrance music is playing...MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
     
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  26. The Hit King

    The Hit King No, I said buttplug. She's heinous.
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  27. Where Eagles Dare

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    Yeah, but you could blow $47 million right away (or try) then put the leftover $200,000,000 in the bank in some low risk bonds at 5% and make $10,000,000 a year for the rest of your life instead of it stopping in 26 years.
     
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  28. HtownTide

    HtownTide I make motion pictures. Space movies
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    Thread would not be complete without:

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  29. NP13

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    Cash is King
     
  30. Festus McBadass

    Festus McBadass Cool ass dog and 5 star recruit
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    This is what I would do ftr.
     
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  31. Festus McBadass

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    Yeah, not saying I would put everything in, just saying you could. I would spread it out through many different bonds and some low risk stock.
     
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  32. BTH

    BTH The most precious possession...is your own people.
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    I would do this too. My point being; you couldn't go wrong either way.
     
  33. Duck70

    Duck70 Let's just do it and be legends, man
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  34. Where Eagles Dare

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    I disagree. Leaving millions and millions and millions of $$ on the table is "going wrong"

    I'd agree that either way you'll have a fuck load of money. Just you'll have much more in 1 scenario vs the other.
     
  35. Gaknight

    Gaknight Well-Known Member
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    I couldn't imagine a greater feeling then looking at 6 random #s and know you never have to work another day in your life.
     
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  36. fattus

    fattus Well-Known Member
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    I'd probably be dead within 2 years if I won. I'd be living life full on Charlie Sheen style.
     
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  37. Shu

    Shu there is no custom title

    I am glad you shared your story.

    Know what the PB was Friday night? 20.

    You think the same PB is gonna hit twice in a row? I don't. What are the odds on that?

    But to go further with my point, I am a skeptic of nearly everything to varying degrees (I think most of you all know that by now), and I would not be shocked with SO much money involved if they found a way to scheme the system a little bit.

    I bet they made $100 million just yesterday alone off quick picks. And I bet they will make more than that on Friday.
     
  38. Where Eagles Dare

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    :edmond:
     
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  39. Where Eagles Dare

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  40. Shu

    Shu there is no custom title

    I have thought about that, but I would want to know how many times I can "pass down" the payment. Say if I died in two years and then the person I willed it to died, could they pass it to someone in my family?

    That would be my worry.

    But like others have said, get $250 million and get it in 3% bonds and make $7 million a year.
     
  41. Shu

    Shu there is no custom title

    Yeah, whatever. Show me a PB drawing where the same PB number has come back twice in a row.

    I know each drawing is seperate and the previous has no bearing on the current, but it would be hard to do.
     
  42. colonelrascals

    colonelrascals Mayonnaise-colored Benz, I push miracle whips
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    /shu post
     
  43. bertwing

    bertwing check out the nametag grandma
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    How many times does Shu have to be shown his theories are wrong before he'll shut the fuck up?

    What are the odds on that?
     
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  44. triple-r

    triple-r Not the mama!
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    6/14/2011 09,10,20,51,53 24
    4x

    6/17/2011 12,29,46,47,51 24 4x

    9/9/2011 07,12,19,23,31 45 4x

    9/13/2011 22,31,43,48,56 45
    There's a couple for ya.
     
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  45. bertwing

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  46. Nole96SC

    Nole96SC Old Member
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    Would be a lot of this ^ sans the swim suits.

    And I just have this feeling that I could win the thing but somehow get killed in a freak accident on my way to cash in the ticket. Or on the way back from cashing in the ticket before I ever got to make a purchase with it.
     
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  47. angus

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    You can't will annuity payments from the lottery. That's why the payout is usually the best option.
     
  48. Where Eagles Dare

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    It is like you understand, but then want to dumb yourself down and believe that is wrong.
     
  49. Shu

    Shu there is no custom title

    Thanks for that. You proved it happens more often than I thought. However, and again, I know each and every drawing is separate and unique unto itself, but the odds that that will happen on any two consecutive drawings seem high.

    There have been far more instances of a different number popping up in consecutive drawings than the same number popping up.
     
  50. Where Eagles Dare

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    God damn it.

    If I flip a coin & it lands heads 4 times in a row, the universe doesn't magically shift and make the odds any different than 50/50 the next time a flip the coin for it to come out tails.