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Do you play alone or in a pool?
When you play the lottery, do you usually play on your own or with others in a pool setting? If you play in a pool, do you buy other tickets besides the ones you got by buying into the pool?
Jun 12, 2016, 11:48 am - TheMeatman2005 - Lottery Discussion Forum

How long do you keep playing the same numbers?Reply
i too have a subscription going. though i run 2 pools, using all 45 of the possible numbers so i get ea number covered once. half lf them in 1 pool and the other half in pool 2. the 2nd pool keeps winning , i mean about $160 more than pool one! i may change pools 1 numbers if by the end of the year the difference doesnt get better, but i wont be changing pool 2's numbers any time soon
Oct 19, 2015, 7:01 pm - savagegoose - Lottery Discussion Forum

Salon lottery winners settle disputeReply
I think it is smart to already have copies made and distributed to every member a day or so before the draw so they are well aware of which tickets are a part of the pool. This was a reall messy pool. How do you not have any rules, copies, or agreements? Unbelievable. I really don't think they deserve a share since there were no copies of the tickets or numbers that was a part of the pool. But the leader of the pool should have let it be known that she buys tickets seperately as well as with the
Aug 22, 2013, 12:45 pm - MsNumberDreamer - Lottery News

if you joined a pool, did you vet the other players for honesty before jumping in feet first?Reply
I run an office pool and that is what I do. Everyone who is in the pool gets copies of the pool tickets, so there's no question over which tickets are the pool's and which are mine. In addition, the tickets I buy for the pool are always multidraw tickets that cover all the draws between paydays, while my personal tickets are single draw. I also buy my own tickets separately at different places from the pool tickets. Hopefully, I won't have any of these sorts of problems if we do hit a big
Apr 7, 2013, 5:11 pm - PrisonerSix - Lottery Discussion Forum

NJ man sued over $38.5M lottery ticketReply
And if I worked somewhere were there was a lottery pool, I would avoid participating in it even though they stand as good a chance as I of winning. Sure, it would suck to be that guy looking in from the outside should they win. But the fact that I have never witnessed a lottery pool do due diligence in claiming the prize makes me averse to such arrangements. Lottery pools usually come out for a press conference a few days or weeks after the win whereas an individual can discreetly claim on his/h
Mar 15, 2012, 7:23 am - OldSchoolPa - Lottery News

NJ man sued over $38.5M lottery ticketReply
Trust but verify. Had they verified their combinations before the drawings instead of just trusting a co-worker to tell them the results after the drawings, this mess could have been avoided. Players who buy tickets for themselves and a pool should insist on this policy because some people join a pool thinking if anyone in the pool ever wins a case can be made for them sharing with the pool even if their winning ticket wasn't bought for the pool.
Mar 14, 2012, 5:24 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Disputed $50M lottery jackpot partially paid outReply
Another issue that needs to be addressed is the purchasing of additional tickets for one's own self, particularly by the person who is running the pool. For example, lets say there's a pool of 20 people who each pitch in $2 for a total of $40. While purchasing the pool's tickets, the person running the pool buys an additional $5 ticket for him/herself. If that $5 ticket wins the jackpot, members of the pool are likely to believe that deception has occured. Even if the person running the pool was
Feb 15, 2011, 5:18 pm - Guru101 - Lottery News

Tonight of nbc investagatesReply
But Dr65 there is one sure fire way to keep that from happening with any pool. Sure buy the pool QP tickets like always at the retailer! But when it comes to that person buying their personal lottery tickets they should be from another store and an hour later and they best not be QP's and not for the same amount as the pool tickets (example 25.00)! That stops all conflict about who's tickets (the pool tickets or the personal tickets) were the winner! Never buy the pool QP tickets at the same sto
Jan 28, 2010, 10:54 am - BaristaExpress - Lottery Discussion Forum

What is the perfect number?Reply
I like the answer 1 but since I haven't won much, maybe there is power in the larger numbers. So for me the answer would depend on the rules of the pool. I think everyone should be allowed to play if it's a pool at work, as long as they follow the rules. However, I like playing my own numbers and I wouldn't want to share my personal prize money outside of the pool. That is the only way I would ever join a pool. If 10 people pitch in $5 each, then only those 50 combinations shared by the g
Jan 3, 2008, 4:36 am - justxploring - Lottery Discussion Forum

MM 470 Million!!Reply
Thats cool. Good for them. I'll just be sick if it was the office pool at my job that I found out about after it closed. One pool had 58 people, and the other had around 30. If they won, they will get around $1.2 mill each after taxes for the bigger pool and about twice that for the smaller pool. Oh man i'll be hot if it was the pool at my job.
Mar 7, 2007, 7:46 am - MegaWinner - Jackpot Games Forum