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[frry]

Would you join and play in a jackpot pool, offline or online, for something like mega millions or power ball? What do you think of the odds in a game like that?

[pompy]

My reply would not just be, "NO!", but h#*$ NOOOO!!! I just don't think that lottery pools make sense. First, looking down the roster of jackpot winners, it looks like more INDIVIDUALS win than do lottery pools. Second, when you have a winning pool that makes each persons take less than $5M, it makes winning just a really nice experience rather than a life changing experience (those 100 Wisconsin players only pocketed less than a million each...I see why many of them opted to continue working at Sargentos and not at

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Third, you open the door for unnecessary disagreements and lawsuits (hello first California Mega Millions winners!). Lastly, I wouldn't even join in a lottery pool with my family for all of the above reasons. My thought is that pools are made for swimming, not for playing the lottery. Unless someone has some really compelling statistics that counter my thoughts, I will continue to be a lone star lottery player.
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