perfectchaos007
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Your friend works for the Texas Lottery commission in Austin? Nice
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No winner yet, Powerball at $675 Million biggest in U.S History
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Your friend works for the Texas Lottery commission in Austin? Nice
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Apparently, haha. I haven't seen her in almost 20 years.
YES@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm getting paid and buying more tickets. More money than any of us know what to do with is coming someone's way.
StopMakingSense
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I'm trying to say that maybe you have a chance if choose the numbers instead of letting the computer choose
StopMakingSense
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Millions of gas station and convenience store clerks are screaming all at once.
GoldenEye 007
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Absolutely bonkers that there was no winner.
PHOENIXZERO
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Shit holy!
I feel sorry for everyone who works at a place that sells tickets.
I feel sorry for everyone who works at a place that sells tickets.
sunshine and gasoline
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Pretty insane to see that the lottery has gone up so high.
piratepwnsninja
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Its kind of insane no one won.
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No jackpot winner; 28 tickets matched the 1st 5 numbers for a $1 million prize (2 from Arizona, 6 from California, 2 from Connecticut (1 with Power Play), 1 from Florida, 1 from Georgia, 1 from Iowa, 1 from Maryland, 1 from Massachusetts, 3 from Michigan, 3 from New York, 2 from Ohio, 1 from Pennsylvania, 3 from Texas (2 with Power Play), and 1 from Virginia)
$1.3 billion it is then
No jackpot winner; 28 tickets matched the 1st 5 numbers for a $1 million prize (2 from Arizona, 6 from California, 2 from Connecticut (1 with Power Play), 1 from Florida, 1 from Georgia, 1 from Iowa, 1 from Maryland, 1 from Massachusetts, 3 from Michigan, 3 from New York, 2 from Ohio, 1 from Pennsylvania, 3 from Texas (2 with Power Play), and 1 from Virginia)
$1.3 billion it is then
casinoman921
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$1.3 billion to start. And with 4 days of sales....maybe $2 billion?
Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel now8 seconds ago
Lottery confirms: Wednesday's Powerball jackpot will be $1.3 billion, or $806 million cash value http://bit.ly/1kWRFLN
Fffffff
Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel now8 seconds ago
Lottery confirms: Wednesday's Powerball jackpot will be $1.3 billion, or $806 million cash value http://bit.ly/1kWRFLN
Fffffff
Only 6 states allow anonymous winners
DrForester
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Is the 1mil prize split? Or does everyone get 1m, like everyone who gets the other lower prized get a flat prize?
Pestilence11
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That's really low. I'd be scared for my own life and anyone in my family if I won in another state.
Mother of God.....
They each get the $1 million. Yeah, lower tiered prizes aren't split like the jackpot
Vestal
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The huge fucking bullseye the person that wins will have as soon as he walks out of those offices...
Hopefully they are smart enough, get lawyered up and go through a blind trust.
dead souls
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That's what I would do. I'd have no desire to walk through the rest of my life with a billion dollar target on my back if I won.
EroticSushi
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Is there seriously no way to avoid it? What would be the best way to gain back ones anonymous status after they win? Change names and move?
Can't imagine having your name revealed like that out to the world.
Create a trust and have the trustee (lawyer) claim it for you.
Was mentioned elsewhere but there's ways to create a legal entity that takes on the money, keeping your identity obscured or hidden, typically
Dreamwriter
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Today people at my grocery store were lined up out of the building to buy Powerball tickets (but, everyone ignored the vending machine...) I can't imagine what it's gonna be like on Wednesday with over $1 billion.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Got the powerball number. Those 4 bucks will go towards Wednesday lol.
BlueTsunami
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Took this just now...
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Y2K....in lottery form
Took this just now...
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Worlds first ever, this shit has the world watching . If you win everybody will want to know who won the billion dollars
If I win I'm
1. Getting a lawyer and all that legal jazz.
2. If allowed, legally changing my name before claiming.
3. Going to a hollywood makeup artist to completely change my appearance.
4. Go to appearance.
5. Continue working as if nothing happened for at least a month.
6. Peacing the fuck out.
If, I win.
1. Getting a lawyer and all that legal jazz.
2. If allowed, legally changing my name before claiming.
3. Going to a hollywood makeup artist to completely change my appearance.
4. Go to appearance.
5. Continue working as if nothing happened for at least a month.
6. Peacing the fuck out.
If, I win.
PHOENIXZERO
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There's a new topic BTW.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1168626
I was waiting for this.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1168626
The lower tier prizes aren't split except in California which the second tier prize is in a parimutuel system.
Took this just now...
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I was waiting for this.
HoodWinked
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this shit is such a scam. they made the odds of winning much lower than before by increasing the number range. thats why the prize is ballooning.
Only 75% of possible combinations were covered, implying that a number of combinations were covered by multiple tickets so roughly 1 out of 4 drawings like this would not have a winner.
Manmademan
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Yes because the 1 in 175 million chance to win before was perfectly attainable.
Yes, everyone is aware of what they did and why. No one cares about the sub 300 million jackpots. Crazy huge power balls are what players and states want. Mega Millions is still there if you like the old game.
1. Do that.
2. Don't waste you time. They (media) can and will uncover this. It's not a matter of when or if. They will have the paper work to pull records such as these ready right now, just need a name. They will know you won before you do.
3. See #2
4. Do that.
5. Do not do this. You are a target for lawsuits. People in general don't realize that most of the public is not worth going after because we're broke. When you have money, it's a completely different game. You are worth going after and the people know you should be paying for this because you have the money. Lawyers aren't cheap and they won't be, especially for you. You'll be paying money to settlements to lawsuits engineered just to get you to settle. Do not do this. When you cash out and have just about over half a billion in cash, you will not be able to have a normal job again. (Unless you lose it and its out on the tabloids.
Don't waste your time changing you appearance, name, likess for the purposes of hiding who you are at the media event. It will be quite sometime before you can hide. Normally, the advice is to wait a couple of months for the media blitz to die down then claim. However, for this jackpot, might as well hire a TV reality staff. You're going to be a camera, a lot. Might as well make money out of it.
Assuming you do not live in one of the 6 states that allow winners to remain anonymous:
Buying a ticket with cash ensures you are anonymous until you make the claim, which you have a year for to do so, plenty of time to prepare. You can setup a limited liability company via a lawyer to hide your identity behind, LLC claims the win. You do not have to disclose the win to the lawyer at the time. You have plenty of time to create a cover story for why you stopped going to work. If people know you are a gamer, you could tell them you test games from your home for a living now.
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