Anyone buying a Powerball ticket today ??

[gtrcivic]

Jackpot will probably be $280 million. $92 after tax if you take the lump sum. Planning on driving to DC to pick up 5 tickets. If i win, will throw an all expense party for my fellow elite members in Cancun or some other warm place.

 

[Drivenone]

Picking up my two tickets this morning on the way home. You are correct on the jackpot being estimated at $280 Million but the cash option is $151.4 Million....not in the $90's. Don't want to short you if you win or me for that matter. The exact stats are on www.powerball.com if anyone is interested.

Not that it would solve all problems but that kind of cash is a life changer to say the least.

 

[TxArmyGuy]

Well if we had it here in Alaska I would buy a few tickets and probably give a few thousand to about 100 or so depending on if they could convince me of why they should receive it if I were to win it

there are some here I'd give them some money anyway cause it never hurts to have another hand helping you up along the way

 

[FLASHMAN1]

Picking up my two tickets this morning on the way home. You are correct on the jackpot being estimated at $280 Million but the cash option is $151.4 Million....not in the $90's. Don't want to short you if you win or me for that matter. The exact stats are on www.powerball.com if anyone is interested.

Not that it would solve all problems but that kind of cash is a life changer to say the least.

The $92 million is correct AFTER TAXES... The $151.4 mil figure is with the cash option, but before taxes... The Government takes a very healthy cut from lottery winnings...

 

[Warik]

The chances of winning the lottery are so small that you have almost as good a chance of winning if you don't play at all.

-Warik

 

[solidj55]

I bought five of them, hell you never know what could happen. If I won there would be a lot of happy people.

 

[-SD-]

The chances of winning the lottery are so small that you have almost as good a chance of winning if you don't play at all.

-Warik

Actual mathematical odds for a "pick 6 out of 50 numbers" are as follows:
50x49x48x47x46x45= 1 in 11,441,304,000 (thats 11 billion 400 million)

That number only get bigger if there are more than 50 number to choose from, as it is here in Texas (54).

 

[JOKER47]

Pickin' mine up on the way home from work. Some ones got to win eventually.


Joker

 

[-SD-]

Pickin' mine up on the way home from work. Some ones got to win eventually.


Joker

Actually no one has to win, see my post above.

 

[Wynn]

I was in Pennsylvania during the weekend- I picked up a few at a gas station on the way home. It's been a while since I played so I didn't know about this 'Power Play' option. I know from the news that 67 tickets from last Saturday's drawing had 5 numbers(winning $100,000). The players who paid extra for power play received the multiplier of 5x.