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enhanced_deficit
12-18-2015, 12:10 PM
Lottery money is supposed to help education and other good deeds, this is shocking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/how-lottery-insider-allegedly-fixed-jackpots/2015/12/18/ab426892-a5a8-11e5-8318-bd8caed8c588_story.html

dannno
12-18-2015, 12:25 PM
He bought the ticket himself? I thought lotto employees weren't allowed to play :confused:

timosman
12-18-2015, 12:47 PM
http://i.imgur.com/EmHJ2Pq.jpg


Eddie Tipton, a former Iowa lottery security official already convicted of rigging a 2010 Hot Lotto drawing in an attempt to win $14.3 million. Investigators believe that a 2011 jackpot payout on a Hot Lotto ticket purchased in Oklahoma was also the result of tampering by Tipton

puppetmaster
12-18-2015, 01:59 PM
http://i.imgur.com/EmHJ2Pq.jpg is that Chris Christy.

seapilot
12-18-2015, 02:18 PM
Fool, only the state wins the lottery! Once for the ticket and two for taxes of the winnings.

Zippyjuan
12-18-2015, 02:36 PM
Mistake was buying the ticket himself. Should have had a friend make the purchase and split the profits.


He allegedly went to a nearby service station days later to buy the winning ticket.

AngryCanadian
12-18-2015, 02:44 PM
Fool, only the state wins the lottery! Once for the ticket and two for taxes of the winnings.

lottery games are a tax on the Stupid i dont mean you lol. Only very few are very lucky.

AngryCanadian
12-18-2015, 02:46 PM
U.S. citizen wins Lotto 6/49 (http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2009/01/21/8096786-sun.html)


It was evident Sean Mayer was trying to figure out ways to beat the tax man even while the 51-year-old Seattle-area businessman was collecting a $7.5 million cheque for winning the Jan. 3 Lotto 6/49 draw.

His already Rich and Won the Canadian Jackpot? that doesn't make sense. His winning the jackpot started a huge debate in Canada.

willwash
12-18-2015, 03:33 PM
lottery games are a tax on the Stupid i dont mean you lol. Only very few are very lucky.

I know right! I hit 4 of the 5 numbers (but not the Mega Ball) and won $500 on a Mega Millions ticket a while back...I thought that was grand until I looked and saw the odds of hitting 4 of the 5 numbers was 1 in about 53,000! Meaning they could have easily payed me $50,000 and still turned a profit.

One more number and my $500 prize would have been $1,000,000...

surf
12-18-2015, 08:30 PM
I know right! I hit 4 of the 5 numbers (but not the Mega Ball) and won $500 on a Mega Millions ticket a while back...I thought that was grand until I looked and saw the odds of hitting 4 of the 5 numbers was 1 in about 53,000! Meaning they could have easily payed me $50,000 and still turned a profit.

One more number and my $500 prize would have been $1,000,000...I don't participate, but if I ever won "a big one" my plan would be to start my own lottery w/a payout in the 95 -99 percent range depending on expenses - perhaps more depending on growth.

correct me if i'm wrong, but most state lotteries tend to pay out somewhere in the 30 - 35 percent range (pre-tax).

devil21
12-18-2015, 10:39 PM
It's been posited for a long time that the big lotteries are all rigged and fake, just another way to separate people from their money based on lies.

AngryCanadian
12-19-2015, 02:23 AM
At least in sport betting you can still earn some money! and few local states from what am seeing are trying to shut it down fantasy sports, funny the states arent closing down lottery games eh?

willwash
12-20-2015, 01:16 PM
It's been posited for a long time that the big lotteries are all rigged and fake, just another way to separate people from their money based on lies.

This very concept was explored in 1984 -- there was a state lottery, but in reality only the small prizes were ever actually paid out. The "big winners" were fictitious characters invented by the state to encourage the Proles to buy tickets.

kpitcher
12-20-2015, 02:09 PM
I don't participate, but if I ever won "a big one" my plan would be to start my own lottery w/a payout in the 95 -99 percent range depending on expenses - perhaps more depending on growth.

correct me if i'm wrong, but most state lotteries tend to pay out somewhere in the 30 - 35 percent range (pre-tax).
There's a reason a noticeable percentage of bitcoin usage is for gambling. Many of those gambling places have provably fair systems in place.

timosman
12-24-2015, 10:38 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsQ4pA6_oC4