lotto winners

[azguzzirep]

anyone here ever win anything playing Lotto?

Back in the late 80's I won $40.

If I'm going to buy that neew V9 I guess I better start playing, or just put that money straight towards the bike purhase.

I really like the V9!!

Tom

[Gliderjohn]

The only times I have played a lotto is when I was gifted tickets. One won $2. Not impressed.
GliderJohn

[twhitaker]

They say the lottery is a tax on people who are poor with statistics.

[wavedog]

A couple of years ago when my brother was visiting for bike week he became quite ill for a couple of days, so to cheer him up I got him three lottery tickets. He won three hundred dollars. It did in fact do wonders for his health.

[Steve Cas]

I play on occasion, usually when the jackpot gets really big.

If I win the big one I'm going to buy a new Guzzi and hire Daniel Kalal to be my official tour guide and photographer for an extended bike tour of Europe!         

[Dilliw]

I play on occasion, usually when the jackpot gets really big.

If I win the big one I'm going to buy a new Guzzi and hire Daniel Kalal to be my official tour guide and photographer for an extended bike tour of Europe!         

This.  When the expected value of a $2 bet gets good enough I'll buy one per drawing.  "Good enough" is usually around $200m for me and that means you are only throwing away on odds $1 instead of $2 .  It only takes lighting to strike once!

I do have Kim playing the "Lucky for Life" with a chance to win $1,000/day for life.  It's 1 in 32m odds based on a guaranteed 20 years and she's young enough to crack those odds.  Then I can stop saving for retirement.  Of course if she wins it there's no reason for her to keep me around except for my good looks :)

[twhitaker]

Of course if she wins it there's no reason for her to keep me around except for my good looks :)

Waiting for the rim shot and the cymbal crash.

[Dilliw]

Waiting for the rim shot and the cymbal crash.

Exactly!

I marvel at the people who keep playing the Pick 3s too.  The house's (well our government) advantage on that game is 50-52% and you see people playing it all the time.  I'm sure there's a guy in the neighborhood that can give you a better deal :)   Hec a casino only gets 5.26% on a Roulette bet and at least some of them are still in business.  Their regulators probably would let them put a 50% advantage game on the floor...

[Steph]

About 4 years ago, my sister, single mom, car less and living in a one bedroom apartment won the lottery: A fully furnished 4 bedroom house in Toronto with a new BMW 1 series, package valued at something like $600,000.
https://www.princessmargaretlotto.com/main.php

She had been looking after my mom during her eye cancer treatments at the hospital.
She sat in several operating room translating the doctor's instruction in French to my mom  "Count to five now, do not move your eye..."
To celebrate my mother being cancer free she bought 1 ticket.

I believe in Karma

[Frulk]

About two years ago some co-workers in a lotto club won $1Million (they didn't hit the Powerball). After taxes and splitting it among each other they averaged about $76K. 

[normzone]

ALWAYS buy into the shop pool - elsewise you could wind up being stuck doing EVERYBODY ELSE'S jobs if they hit it.

Odds be damned, it's an entertainment expense. For a couple of bucks I can fantasize about retirement for a week before they draw the numbers.

[cloudbase]

I won $142 in the early days of the Texas Lotto.

[calfruit]

In 2012, a gentleman who worked for me on a seasonal basis, won a 36 million dollar lotto. He walked away with 19 million.. He had purchased a lotto  ticket every week since the lotto in Calif begun. The same numbers, at the same store. We now refer to him as Lotto Jim.  He is quite happy.

[rob-mg]

About 4 years ago, my sister, single mom, car less and living in a one bedroom apartment won the lottery: A fully furnished 4 bedroom house in Toronto with a new BMW 1 series, package valued at something like $600,000.
https://www.princessmargaretlotto.com/main.php

She had been looking after my mom during her eye cancer treatments at the hospital.
She sat in several operating room translating the doctor's instruction in French to my mom  "Count to five now, do not move your eye..."
To celebrate my mother being cancer free she bought 1 ticket.

I believe in Karma

Tres sympa.

P.S. Sorry for the spelling of tres. If there's a way to use non-English characters on this site, I've yet to discover it.

[azguzzirep]

My slogan for many years has been: You can't lose if you don't play! 😁

I too, usually only play it if the jackpot is stupid big.

Tom

[GuzziChris]

A very good friend of mine from high school won the CT lotto not long after it started in the early to mid 1980s, $3.1 million over 20 years. I recall being very envious, he was the type of guy who won at everything he did. We lost touch for years, but I heard off and on that he went through tough times including a divorce, etc.... Fast forward, not too long ago I was in a bar and in he walked, looked awful, as if he hadn't eaten in weeks, and he barely recognized me. Clearly he was not well, mentally or physically. Told me he was driving a delivery truck for an auto parts store. Very sad, and I understand bad outcomes are often the case with people who gain access to money when they're not prepared to handle it.

[Rough Edge racing]

  I don't believe in money for nothing. I believe it brings bad karma...

[steven c]

Years ago I won $5 then later that day I got a $5 parking ticket visting my sister at Uconn, so after that I figured it was rigged!

[rocker59]

A very good friend of mine from high school won the CT lotto [in the 1980s]...  $3.1 million over 20 years...

...not too long ago I was in a bar and in he walked, looked awful, as if he hadn't eaten in weeks, and he barely recognized me. Clearly he was not well, mentally or physically. Told me he was driving a delivery truck for an auto parts store. Very sad, and I understand bad outcomes are often the case with people who gain access to money when they're not prepared to handle it.

That's only $155,000 per year, for 20 years.  And taxes were probably taken out of that, so the net would be less.  Not a lot of income, if they quit their jobs, and if he had to give half to his wife upon divorce...

So yeah, if he didn't have a plan for saving some of it for year 21, I can see how he would have to go back to work...

[TBShorty]

We won $50 playing the Illinois state lottery the week it started I think it was 1972.  Moved to Arizona in mid 70s and won $800 the first year it started there.  5 yrs. later we won $1200.  Since then bought tickets occasionally and once in a while won $5 or less.  No lottery in Utah so we don't play anymore.  Probably saved a few hundred in the 10 yrs. since not playing at all.

[PeteS]

I know a woman who has won twice, 100K and 3 mil playing scratch offs. Decades ago I had a ticket and played the same 6 numbers. Never won. Then one week the jackpot was low so I didn't play. Would have won a 2nd prize of 3200 bucks. Thats as close as I ever got.

Pete

[Jerryd]

The folks up the street recently won $500 million. Lots of excitement around here for a while!

[Shorty]

I pay my moron tax. I buy one number, the next 10 draws. That Blue Ridge mountaintop airstrip with the Waco,  Decathalon, Caravan and Ranger are only a lightning strike away.  I have won about 30 bucks over a lifetime. Hope springs eternal.

[rboe]

When the payout gets high I'll play a bit. Odds are so bad that I get just one ticket per draw. I figure I should do my part to contribute to the winner. I mean, they are probably nice people.

Now if on the wild chance I won, I'm not sure it really would be winning. Talk about a walking into a malstrom. Yikes! I'd have to support some long time interests like WWII aircraft and a small allowance for me and the wife. That much money is a hot potato and it would be best to get rid of it fast.

[charlie b]

We did the lottery game for a while, then thought about it seriously.  That much money would ruin almost anyone who wasn't already an a--hole.  Thought about splitting it up amoung all family and friends and figured that would ruin most of them too.

We are really happy with what we have, so, we just don't contribute anymore.

[Chuck in Indiana]

We did the lottery game for a while, then thought about it seriously.  That much money would ruin almost anyone who wasn't already an a--hole.  Thought about splitting it up amoung all family and friends and figured that would ruin most of them too.

We are really happy with what we have, so, we just don't contribute anymore.

Us, too. I wouldn't want a boatload of money and all the hassle involved.

[oldbike54]

Us, too. I wouldn't want a boatload of money and all the hassle involved.

 Well... one could start an old motorcycle riders home . Show racing videos , have bikes in the common room , organize outings to events , cute attendants wearing leather jackets , stuff like that 

 Dusty