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WHY COULDNT THIS BE ME!!!?
« on: Oct 3rd, 2010, 10:14pm » |
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Months after winning $1M in lottery, man wins $2M
ST. LOUIS, Tue Sep 28, 06:27 PM
The odds against winning $1 million in the Lottery: Astronomical. How about doing it twice?
It happened to a man from Bonne Terre, Mo., Missouri Lottery officials said Tuesday. Ernest Pullen, 57, won $1 million with a "100 Million Dollar Blockbuster" Scratchers ticket in June. And this month, he won $2 million with a "Mega MONOPOLY" Scratchers ticket.
Pullen, a retired military man who was working at the help desk for a telecommunications company before retiring after the first lottery win, said he considers himself to be a "lucky guy."
You think?
John Wells of the Missouri Lottery said the chances of winning $1 million in the "$100 Million Dollar Blockbuster" game are 1 in 2.28 million. The odds of winning $2 million in "Mega MONOPOLY" are about the same.
The chances of winning both?
Because they're independent games, it is impossible to calculate the odds, Wells said.
"But it's a pretty amazing coincidence," he said. "We've had players win big multiple prizes before, but this is the first person to ever win a second million-dollar prize in the history of the Missouri Lottery."
Pullen bought the most recent winning ticket on Sept. 17 at Miller's Quick Shop in Bonne Terre, a community in the Old Lead Belt region of eastern Missouri, about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis. He opted to take the cash payment instead of the annuity for both wins. He received $700,000 for the June winner and will get about $1.3 million for the September winner - both before taxes.
Pullen recalled a dream six years ago in which he won a lot of money. Even after the $1 million win in June, he didn't feel like the dream was complete.
He does now.
"All the numbers I dreamed about, and all my lucky numbers, were on the card," Pullen said.
Pullen plans to use the money to fix up his new house, which needs a new lakeside wall.
As for the Lottery, he figures he's about used up his luck, though he still might play the big jackpots on Powerball and Mega Millions.
"My wife said she's winning the next time," Pullen said.
RIADAS RETORT: Proof positive, if proof be needed, that life just ISNT fair!! 
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Re: WHY COULDNT THIS BE ME!!!?
« Reply #1 on: Oct 4th, 2010, 2:24pm » |
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Yea a military man none the less whos probly pulling down a pretty sweet pension and has a great job to boot. The hell with that I mean its pretty cool but it would be better for someone like Riada or Ltg.
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« Reply #2 on: Nov 27th, 2010, 10:04pm » |
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Shop owner sells himself winning lottery ticket
BELLE VERNON, Pa., Wed Nov 24, 02:09 PM
A shop owner in western Pennsylvania has sold himself a winning $1.8 million lottery ticket - and as the seller of the ticket, he'll get an extra $10,000.
Ron Rea owns Tobacco World stores in Uniontown and Belle Vernon. He bought the winning ticket for the Nov. 18 Match 6 Lotto drawing at the Belle Vernon store.
Rea says he doesn't play the lottery's Daily Number, but he spends about $20 a day on tickets for games with higher odds, telling the Herald-Standard of Uniontown, "If you hit, your life's changed."
Rea's ticket was worth $1,782,432. A lottery spokeswoman confirmed Rea's claim to the winning ticket.
The 68-year-old Rea says the winnings will help him and his wife of 38 years, Rita, build their retirement funds.
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Re: WHY COULDNT THIS BE ME!!!?
« Reply #3 on: Nov 28th, 2010, 11:20am » |
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I won $40 bucks on a scratch-off ticket one time about fifteen years ago. Played a thousand times since then, got a lot of free ticket wins, maybe 2 or 3 bucks a few times, but that's it!
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« Reply #4 on: Nov 29th, 2010, 10:42pm » |
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Pot o' Gold: Family's old vase fetches $83 million
LONDON, Fri Nov 12, 05:12 PM
It was just an old Chinese vase that had been tucked away unnoticed for years when the woman found it while clearing out her late sister's modest suburban London home. It turned out to be much more.
When the intricately painted 18th-century piece went on the block at Bainbridges, a small suburban auction house, it sold for a record $83 million Thursday, scooped up by a Chinese buyer.
"How do you anticipate the Chinese market?" asked the shocked auctioneer, Peter Bainbridge. "It's totally on fire."
The sale price was more than 40 times the pre-sale estimate and a record for a Chinese work of art - an outcome Bainbridge called "a fairy tale" for the family who owned the vase.
The sellers, who wished to remain anonymous, are the sister and nephew of a deceased elderly woman in the West London suburb of Pinner. The vase had been in the family at least since the 1930s, though they don't know how it was acquired.
Many Chinese artifacts surfaced in Britain in the 19th century, having been looted from Beijing's Summer Palace when it was sacked by British and French troops at the end of the Second Opium War in 1860.
Painted sky blue and imperial yellow and adorned with medallions depicting leaping goldfish, the 16-inch vase dates from the Qing dynasty, a time when Chinese porcelain-making was at its pinnacle. Made for the personal collection of Emperor Qianlong and bearing the imperial seal, experts said it was an exceptional piece.
Still, no one expected what happened when the delicate enameled vase went on the block.
Bainbridge said the atmosphere was "electric," and when the hammer came down on the winning bid he struck it so hard the gavel broke.
"There was a silence that wrapped itself around the sale as the figure grew slowly but surely up to the sky," said Bainbridge, who specializes in house clearance sales - and whose previous record sold for $161,000.
"I'm an auctioneer, so at that point I'm just doing the professional job I'm paid to do. But once the hammer's down you do take stock slightly and think, 'Oh, wow, that's really rather a lot of money,'" said Bainbridge, whose $13.9 million buyer's premium is included in the sale price.
The vase, bought by a Chinese bidder on behalf of an undisclosed buyer, beat the previous record for Chinese art. A 45-foot-long 11th-century scroll elaborately decorated with calligraphy sold for almost $64 million in Beijing in June.
While the vase sold Thursday is not extremely old - it dates from around 1740 - it comes from a period whose works are coveted by Chinese buyers. Last month, Sotheby's sold another Qing dynasty vase in Hong Kong for $32 million.
"While European taste tends to focus on the really old stuff produced by the Chinese, Chinese collectors consider this period of porcelains the zenith of their art," said Roland Arkell, deputy editor of the Antiques Trade Gazette.
"It's a superb object. It's also a piece which chimes completely with Chinese taste. And it has to be seen in the context of a rapidly rising market."
Even he was surprised, though, by the sale price, which makes this work by anonymous artisans the 11th most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.
"It's right up there alongside the Picassos, which is unheard-of for a piece of porcelain," he said.
More record prices are sure to follow. Prices for Chinese art and antiquities are buoyant.
Art markets in the West are still feeling the effects of the economic downturn. Masterpieces set records - often acquired by Russian, Middle Eastern or Asian collectors - while mid-range works languish unsold.
"It's like a creme brulee: hard at the top and a bit soft underneath," said Robert Read, a fine art expert at specialist insurer Hiscox
In contrast, China's booming economy means wealthy new collectors are joining the market all the time, eager to repatriate treasures from their heritage.
"There's definitely a shift in the balance of power," said Read. "Things are going east these days. That's where the future is, and that's where the big collectors are going to be over the next 20 years."
He said the result was also good news for small auction houses like Bainbridge's, which the auctioneer runs with his wife and a staff of eight.
"This result indicates the depth to which buyers are prepared to hunt for treasure. The Internet has opened up the market for small auctioneers who now find themselves in the happy position of being able to compete with the big players," he said.
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Re: WHY COULDNT THIS BE ME!!!?
« Reply #5 on: Nov 30th, 2010, 6:10am » |
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« Reply #6 on: Dec 24th, 2010, 10:29pm » |
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Spanish Christmas lottery spreads $3 billion cheer
MADRID, Wed Dec 22, 06:10 AM
Spain's beloved Christmas lottery - known as "El Gordo" (The Fat One) - spread euro2.3 billion ($3 billion) in holiday cheer Wednesday in a country facing 20 percent unemployment.
The lottery billed as the world's richest has no single jackpot but rather a complex share-the-wealth system in which thousands of five-digit numbers running from 00000 to 84999 win at least something.
This can range from the face value of a euro20 ($26.31) - in other words, you get back the money you spent on the ticket - to the top prize of euro300,000 ($394,650).
The sweepstakes, which goes on for about three hours, ushers in the Christmas season in Spain. The lottery goes back to 1812 and many Spaniards spend the day glued to TV sets, radios and computer terminals to see if they are among the lucky.
People often team up to buy shares of tickets sold by bars, sports clubs and in business offices.
Uniformed children from a Madrid school that used to be a home for orphans pick small wooden balls bearing the winning numbers and corresponding prizes out of two giant golden tumblers, and sing them out in a time-honored chant known to every Spaniard.
To complicate things further - and ensure the money trickles down as much as possible - each of the numbers running from 00000 to 84999 appears on 1,950 euro20 coupons.
This year, the top prize - known, like the lottery itself, as El Gordo - went to the number 79250. Tickets bearing that number were sold in the Madrid area, Barcelona, Alicante in the east and other cities ranging from the Basque region in the north to Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
The most commonly won amount for a euro20 coupon is euro100 ($131.55).
RIADAS RETORT: IT MAY BE A COMPLICATED, RANDOM KIND OF THING, BUT I'D EVEN SETTLE FOR WINNING THAT AT THIS POINT!! 
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« Reply #7 on: Feb 17th, 2011, 10:31pm » |
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Just in time: NC couple claims $1M lottery prize
STALLINGS, N.C., Wed Feb 16, 09:07 AM
A North Carolina couple has claimed a $1 million lotto prize just a day before it expired.
Raleigh Hill bought the Mega Millions ticket last summer. The state lottery agency said Hill and his wife claimed the prize Tuesday at the agency's headquarters.
Hill said he only realized a couple of weeks after the Aug. 20 drawing that his ticket matched all five white balls. He waited two or three more weeks to tell his wife, until she came home at the end of a bad day.
Hill told the state lottery he hesitated to come in because of the attention. At one point, he lost track of the ticket before finding where he'd hidden it in a shoe box.
After taxes, the couple received $680,000. Hill is a baggage handler and his wife, Erin Hill, works for the federal government.
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Re: WHY COULDNT THIS BE ME!!!?
« Reply #8 on: Mar 24th, 2011, 3:53pm » |
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Re: chinese vase sold for over $80 million. It said in the paper the vase still has not been paid for. It turns out the chinese are sending agents all over the world to bid on items which they feel are part of their heritage and have been stolen in the past (ie removed by foreigners) are are coming up for auction. So with regards to the chinese vase, although it got great press coverage all over the world, it is not sold until it is paid for. Greetings from the UK.
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« Reply #9 on: Apr 10th, 2011, 12:25am » |
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Ga. woman cleans purse, finds winning ticket
FAIRBURN, Ga., Wed Apr 06, 05:29 PM
A Georgia woman's decision to clean out her purse paid off in a big way when she found an old lottery ticket worth $189,302. Fifty-five-year-old Rhonda Williams of Fairburn says she found the winning Fantasy 5 ticket in the bottom of her purse after cleaning it out over the weekend.
WSB-TV reports that the ticket is from a Jan. 17 drawing. Williams picked all of the winning numbers: 18, 25, 28, 29, 35.
Williams says she plans to pay off bills and may take a cruise.
RIADAS RETORT: Oh, Im SO HAPPY for her...NOT!
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« Reply #10 on: Jul 26th, 2011, 10:53pm » |
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Mother, daughter get big lottery jackpot 3 times
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Tue Jul 26, 08:34 AM
A mother and daughter in the Carolinas have three big lottery wins in the last 20 years between them.
The Charlotte Observer reports that Kimberly McCauley won $100,000 this month playing a new instant-scratch off game 10X the Money.
The North Carolina Education Lottery says that in 2007, McCauley's mother, Amy McCauley, who's from Fort Mill, S.C., won more than $160,000 in the Carolina Cash 5 game. But the family's big win came in 1991, when Amy McCauley won $15.5 million in the New York Lotto. She also snagged two $1,000 prizes playing the North Carolina lottery's $130 Million Blockbuster game in 2009.
Kimberly McCauley says she thought her mother had all the lottery luck, so she's overwhelmed with the $100,000 win.
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« Reply #11 on: Sep 8th, 2011, 11:55pm » |
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Calif. woman uses family birthdates in lottery win
ALHAMBRA, Calif., Thu Sep 08, 06:49 PM
A Southern California woman who won half the $18 million SuperLotto has her children and grandchildren to thank for the win.
That's because Audelia Ramirez used their birthdates to pick the winning numbers.
The California Lottery said Thursday that Ramirez claimed her $9 million prize Wednesday and said she'd love to buy a new house after living in a small apartment for years. The 73-year-old has six children and eight grandchildren.
Another winning ticket sold at Junior Liquor in San Diego remains unclaimed.
The winning numbers were: 22, 27, 32, 31, 2 and Mega 11.
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Atlanta man hits second $1 million lottery prize
ATLANTA, Tue Nov 29, 05:53 AM
A southwest Atlanta man has won his second $1 million Georgia Lottery prize.
Delma Kinney, who will celebrate his 51st birthday Dec. 5, recently won a $1 million prize playing the instant game Super Millions.
In 2008, Kinney won $1 million playing another instant game. The single father of three set aside a portion of his winnings to save for their college education.
With his recent win, Kinney says he plans to donate a portion to charity.
Kinney says he bought the ticket at a Chevron Food Mart when he went out to buy cold medicine.
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« Reply #13 on: Dec 18th, 2011, 11:59pm » |
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ATLANTIC CITY — A gambler at an Atlantic City casino has won $1 million on a $20 poker bet.
The woman, whose name was not disclosed, won the amount early today as part of the "Three Card Poker 6 Card" bonus jackpot while playing at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City.
The promotion offers gamblers various cash prizes if they draw a royal flush. The payouts they receive depend on the amount they bet and whether their royal flush occurs in diamonds, hearts, spades or clubs.
Casino officials say the woman had been playing at the table for about two hours when she got a royal flush in diamonds — the promotion's top payout.
It marked the second time that a gambler has won the $1 million payout since the promotion began Sept. 26.
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« Reply #14 on: Feb 25th, 2012, 11:56pm » |
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Marine credits karma for $2.9 million jackpot
LAS VEGAS, Sat Feb 25, 09:24 PM
Marine Cpl. Alexander Degenhardt is crediting karma for landing a $2.9 million progressive slot jackpot in Las Vegas.
Degenhardt was accepted as a bone marrow donor to an anonymous patient only a couple of days before hitting the jackpot Sunday at the Bellagio, the Las Vegas Sun reported (http://bit.ly/ABQ02J).
"They asked me if I was sure I wanted to go through with it because it's kind of painful, but what's a little pain if it will save someone's life?" Degenhardt said. "I look at this jackpot as kind of good karma for that."
Degenhardt, 26, said he plans to continue his career with the Marines and go through with the bone marrow donation, which is expected to occur in the next six months after extensive testing.
He and several fellow Marines had flown to Las Vegas from Washington, D.C., where he's stationed, for a week of training at Nellis Air Force Base. He said he decided to kill a couple of hours before the return flight by playing the penny slot, which takes bets from 40 cents to $2, at the Bellagio. He landed the jackpot about 10 minutes later.
"I figured I'd just go lose $100 real quick," he said. "I was overwhelmed and in shock. It's something you always want to happen, but when it does happen you don't believe it."
Degenhardt, who will receive about $100,000 a year over 20 years, said he plans to first help his pregnant sister and his mother catch up on bills.
He decided to buy some clothes after the jackpot - at a thrift store, where he buys all of his clothes. He said he won't part with his car that has rolled up some 250,000 miles, either.
"I plan to keep driving it until I can't anymore," he told the Sun. "No sense in wasting money. I'm really pretty thrifty."
The Bally Technologies' Money Vault slot machine at the Bellagio is linked with casinos across Nevada. It was the second largest jackpot ever for Bally, which makes the machines and pays out the jackpots.
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