No Powerball Jackpot Winner, Pot to Grow to $1.3 Billion [01/09/16]

NBC4 LA ^ | 01/09/2016 | NBC4 LA

[DoughtyOne]

There was no jackpot winner of Saturday's biggest-ever $900 million Powerball drawing, and the jackpot for Wednesday's drawing will grow to an estimated $1.3 billion, officials said, NBC News reported.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. Okay, then it has changed. That’s fine.

I’ll probably dump six bucks then.

I appreciate the mention.

[DoughtyOne]

Just saying you were once a ticket holder to a pot with $1.38 billion dollars in it, is in itself something to mention as an interesting fact.

[zeugma]

gee, you're almost talking about governmental amounts!

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, it is a massive sum isn’t it.

[Prince of Space]

I won $4 picking the PB but it turned into $12 with the power play. Woo-hoo!

[mykroar]

That’s a little walkin’ around money

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“Your chances of winning the Powerball lottery are zero whether you purchase any tickets or not.”

If you buy a single ticket, your chance of winning is 1 in 292.2 million. If you do not buy a ticket, your chance of winning is zero in 292.2 million. One is not equal to zero, so your statement is false.

Also, any time that the potential amount to be won is greater than the amount you bet multiplied by the odds against you, the odds are on your side. That’s probably not the case this week, when you consider taxes and the chance of multiple winners.

I’ll play the lottery this week anyway, though I very seldom do, and have never won so much as a dollar in any lottery. I have no real expectation of winning, but I’ll get my money’s worth before the drawing, imagining what I’d do if I did win the whole thing.

[5by5]

Multiplier increases the non jackpot payouts.

Probably better off saving your money or putting it towards another ticket which increases your odds of winning the big payout.

[Cvengr]

your chances of being in a fatal car crash are ... 243,501 times greater than winning the Powerball jackpot.

That's why I drive as fast as I can to buy a Powerball ticket from 2 different stores, to improve the odds of winning the Powerball ticket.../s

[CGASMIA68]

you are wrong

[CGASMIA68]

2 bucks each with out multiplier.
A five will get cha one 2 buck ticket and another with the multiplier

[seamusnh]

I usually buy a ticket for the Powerball and megamillions. Only when I have stopped for gas or something. The first ticket means that I am in the game and have as much chance to win as anyone else.... If I bought a second ticket, that is the one that is a waste...

How long has it been since the last powerball win? Wonder how long it takes to get to $1.3B... Also, I wonder for those that have won, what % had more than one ticket for the drawing they won. It would be interesting to see how many winners are novice players, how many are occasional players and how many are fanatical...

[jjotto]

Last PB win was Nov. 13. $200 mil.

[Democratic-Republican]

Pssst, Nancy. Yeah, Paul. Check it out. See those reporters over there? CNN, Fox, yup. They're heading out to cover the Powerball thing, 1.3 billion. "A" billion? Yeah, ONE point 3 billion! They have no freaking idea what we do here, do they? None at all.

To say the least.

2015 FedGov AMERICAN EXPRESS Centurion Card Statement

   $3.249 trillion ... REVENUE: Taxes taken from Americans
 - $3.688 trillion ... OUTLAYS: Money spent buying your votes
-------------------------------
 = $438.9 billion .... DEFICIT: Red Ink charged to future taxpayers

Perhaps it is time for a new numerical base unit and billing statement ...

   TAXES ... 2,500 Powerball jackpots
SPENDING ... 2,837 Powerball jackpots
-------------------------------------
 = YOU OWE ... 337 Powerball jackpots ( this year. plus interest. )

... So easy a caveman, I mean, a taxpayer could understand. Geico.

Fellow FRiends, please remind your kids and grandkid this week that FedGov alone charged approximately one of those Powerball jackpots each and every day billed against their future income.

More amazingly, FedGov actually spent over 7 of those Powerball jackpots each and every day last fiscal year.

This is probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to add dimension to those dimensionless numbers that FedGov is drowning America with. Don't let the opportunity pass.

[grania]

A lot of cash spent on losing tickets.

With a lot of the take going to state governments. Wonder what black holes that will disappear in.

[xp38]

The numbers no one had

16,19,32,34,57 powerball 13

[Libloather]

not possible

[MeshugeMikey]

1.3 BILLION? I ordinarily don’t gamble..but thats a real tempation...

[xp38]

Lead us not into temptation

[nikos1121]

I wonder if I win, do you think I’ll be able to get someone to go out with me?