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Old 05-24-2005   #1
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Powerball!

Who play's the powerball? Anyone? Anyone?

Lottery in general? Pull tabs, scratch cards, daily 5 (or whatever the fuck it's called), ect ect...
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Old 05-24-2005   #2
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Re: Powerball!

not me. It is a poor mans tax. I like the powerball though. Sometimes peole are dumb enough to buy many more tickets as the jackpot gets higher. I say go ahead and pay my taxes for me!
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Old 05-24-2005   #3
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Re: Powerball!

When it gets really high like this I will play sometimes. No more than 5 tickets though.
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Old 05-24-2005   #4
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Re: Powerball!

I won off of a scratch off(9's are fine). It was the second scratch off I have ever bought. I won $99 after that I bought 5 dollars worth and lost all of them, so I quit while I was ahead.
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Re: Powerball!

I've made $100 off a single dollar with pull tabs... Usually have good luck with those.
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The lottery isn't around to make people rich.
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I always laugh at people who "strike it rich" at the casino/lottery since 99% of the time they spent 10x what they won just to win it. Plus, its generally dumped right back into the system so in reality they did nothing but loose even more. People are dumb.
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Re: Powerball!

I won on my second scratch game I bought and lost the next, so I kinda stopped. Dont have that kind of money to spend trying to win and the chances are slim. I'll only buy the powerball if it's high like how it was (or is, I havent checked since the weekend). I havent gone to the casino yet, so I gotta go there sometime.
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I don't play the lottery.
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I don't play the lottery or gamble, Period.
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Re: Powerball!

The powerball is getting up there! Hell I bought a few tickets, Burn in hell to you who don't like lottery tickets! I'll let you watch me take my winning ticket of 180 million (or whatever it is) to the bank!


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Re: Powerball!

I really never play the powerball. But, I think I am going to buy a couple tickets since the pot is so high. Hey, someone has to win it at some point.
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My thoughts exactly! Might as well be me.
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Re: Powerball!

I have worked in a Casino for almost 10 years and have saw countless people lose everything they have over gambling. So I don't hardly ever gamble. If you play enough the odds are way against you, the Casinos and the lottery are not there because people win all the time.

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I don't usually get in on powerball, the odds are too tough to beat. I came out about even last year on my first trip to Vegas, and I'm going back there this summer armed with some more card counting abilities.

At my company christmas party this year we had in-house blackjack tables w/ funny-money. They were only using two or three decks of cards, and I counted cards the whole time. I turned $10k into $80k in about 2 hours!

This second Vegas trip, btw, is for my honeymoon. I'm getting married in July and asked Anna where she wanted to go for our honeymoon. I offered several places in mexico, fiji, etc. She just looked at me with puppy dog eyes and said, 'can we please just go back to vegas?' ....yea, I'm in love...
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Burn in hell to you who don't like lottery tickets! I'll let you watch me take my winning ticket of 180 million (or whatever it is) to the bank!


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Um... ok. You just piss away all you money on lottery tickets and I will put an equal amount of money away. I bet you I will be ahead of you. I don't dislike the lottery. I just don't see the point in giving away money. Maybe the lottery is why you don't have an "un-godly dsm." I like the lottery anyways. As I said before, I have less taxes to pay because of you people.
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Um... ok. You just piss away all you money on lottery tickets and I will put an equal amount of money away. I bet you I will be ahead of you. I don't dislike the lottery. I just don't see the point in giving away money. Maybe the lottery is why you don't have an "un-godly dsm." I like the lottery anyways. As I said before, I have less taxes to pay because of you people.
You have a better chance of winning the lottery than you do of ever having a running DSM so what do you have to lose?

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when I get my honda B18 motor in it, it will hopefully run for a little while. I am not worring about the motor until I get the body kit fitted and the car painted lime green first though.
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Re: Powerball!

I spend maybe 10-20 bucks a month on lottery tickets, I don' go to the casino, I don't play pull tabs. So my 10-20 bucks a month on powerball tickets makes your theory a little far fetched.




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Um... ok. You just piss away all you money on lottery tickets and I will put an equal amount of money away. I bet you I will be ahead of you. I don't dislike the lottery. I just don't see the point in giving away money. Maybe the lottery is why you don't have an "un-godly dsm." I like the lottery anyways. As I said before, I have less taxes to pay because of you people.
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Old 05-24-2005   #20
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Re: Powerball!

I only play Powerball when I actually remember to pick up a ticket(not very often) and I only buy 1. The odds really don't change between having 1 ticket or 100 tickets.

The other way of looking at it is you cant win if you dont' have a ticket. I might spend $3 a month on Powerball so, the money which I would have invested into it is rather minimal. Any the payout if I would win.... enough said.
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