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Lottery winners, soon to be laid off, thankful for timing. For some, hitting the lottery means a new house or a luxury car. For Randy Bretz of Millersburg, Ohio, it means being able to afford health insurance to help pay for his wife's $1,800-a-month medical bills.
Saturday, December 29, 2001
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 2 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize: 1 in Illinois and 1 in Maryland. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, December 28, 2001
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $44 million Big Game drawing results!California Seeks Lottery Amends. The state lottery will hold a special $1 million "second-chance" drawing to make up for selling scratch-off tickets for some games years after the big prizes had already been claimed.Mass. Lottery Has Trouble With Scratch Tickets. The Massachusetts lottery said that they are recalling a certain line of popular scratch tickets since some of the tickets do not reveal anything when they are scratched.Lawsuit hovers over start of S.C. lottery. While the first sales of the South Carolina Education Lottery's scratch-off tickets are just days away, the start-up of the game where players pick numbers remains uncertain.Andrew N.S. Glazer: To succeed, pick the right game. In casinos, you'll often find yourself with the option of playing in Game A or Game B. The stakes may be identical, or very nearly; the only significant difference is the collection of players to be found at each table...
Thursday, December 27, 2001
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Lottery jackpot eases fears of 6 facing layoff. Six Ohio metal-factory workers who will be jobless when their Wooster plant closes later this winter have found a new money source: a $7 million Super Lotto jackpot.Student: Games Could Become 'The Littery'. Along with the prizes and education funds that the South Carolina Lottery is expected to bring to the state starting on Jan. 7, there's another by-product – tons of additional trash.
Wednesday, December 26, 2001
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Ohio lottery director puts off choosing multistate game. Ohio is delaying its decision on which multistate lottery to join until early next year, the lottery director said yesterday. The state needs to study the impact of New York and Pennsylvania recently joining lotteries that Ohio had been considering.
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There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday drawing, but 2 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize: 1 in Massachusetts and 1 in Michigan. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $40 million Big Game drawing results!
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Merry Christmas from BigGameLottery.com!
Monday, December 24, 2001
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Lottery Club Collects $150,000 Big Game Prize. The members of "Club Lottery For Fun" of Plymouth, Michigan will likely have a little happier holiday season, as they matched the first five numbers in the April 10, 2001 Big Game drawing to win a $150,000 prize.Michigan Resident Collects $150,000 Big Game Prize. Robert Swayne of Metamora, Michigan was smiling from ear to ear upon discovering he had matched the first five numbers in the December 14 Big Game drawing to win a $150,000 prize.Lucky Woman claims $150,000 Big Game Prize. Mary Nagy of Flint, Michigan said she has been playing The Big Game since it started but never thought she would win a big prize.Winning Number in Spain X-Mas Lottery. Schoolchildren chanted the winning number - 18,795 - Saturday for the grandprize in Spain's Christmas lottery, billed as the richest in the world with $1.26 billion in total prize money.Lottery Sales Continued After Top Prizes Gone. The California Lottery allowed the sale of millions of dollars worth of tickets for its most popular lottery games even after all the top prizes had been awarded and purchasers had no chance of winning them, according to court documents.Ohio's secret lottery game. Legislators renounce multistate jackpot while quietly endorsing it: About a third of the members of the Ohio legislature told an Ohio church coalition last year that they would not support expanding the Ohio lottery into a multistate jackpot such as Powerball.The Ohio Lottery and schools. A history of the Ohio Lottery's financial contribution to the state.Deadline Passes For Personally Collecting Lotto Texas Jackpot. A $13 million Texas Lottery jackpot went unclaimed Friday, as no one came forward to personally claim the winnings.S.C. has approved 1,700 lottery licenses. The toughest place to find a lottery ticket in South Carolina next year will be McCormick County, where only two stores are licensed so far to sell tickets when the games start Jan. 7.
Saturday, December 22, 2001
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 2 lucky players from New Jersey matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, December 21, 2001
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Christmas Big Game Drawing. Advisory: on Tuesday, December 25, The Big Game drawing will occur at 11:00 PM Eastern Time, as usual.
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $36 million Big Game drawing results!Andrew N.S. Glazer: In 7-card stud, all hands matter. One of the most basic poker principles is that the hand that starts in front tends to stay in front. If you keep in mind just how difficult it is to win when you start out trailing your competitors, you'll have a better chance of staying ahead.
Thursday, December 20, 2001
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The 'Big Game' gamble for Locke. It is now known that New York will become the 8th Big Game state. Will Gov. Gary Locke make Washington the ninth?New York to Join Lottery Mega-Game. Lottery officials announced yesterday that New York will join the seven states that now comprise the Big Game Group to develop a new multijurisdiction, big-payoff game.
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New York Joins The Big Game. The New York Lottery announced that it will join the multi-state Big Game lottery and work with the seven Lottery organizations which comprise the Big Game Group to make the game even more exciting. The addition of New York will lead to more winning opportunities, including jackpots starting at $10 million and other possible prize structure changes.New York Joins Big Game, Plans Under Way to Develop New Mega-Jackpot Game. New York Lottery Director Margaret R. DeFrancisco today announced the New York Lottery will work with seven other Lottery jurisdictions that currently comprise the Big Game Group, to develop a brand new multi-jurisdiction mega-jackpot game to build on the success of the Big Game.S.C. numbers games face delay. The South Carolina lottery's numbers games are unlikely to start before May because of a delay in building its communications network, costing the lottery more than $30 million in lost revenue, the lottery commission chairman said Wednesday.
Wednesday, December 19, 2001
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Stafford, Virigina man wins $150,000 Big Game prize. What better way to finish off a 16-hour workday than to discover you have just won $150,000?Virginia man stops, looks, and wins $150,000 in The Big Game. Not many people can say that they discovered they are $150,000 richer while sitting at a stoplight, but Robert Bass of Portsmouth, Virginia can.Pa. to Join Powerball Lottery. Pennsylvania will join the Powerball multi-state lottery next summer in an effort to boost state lottery revenues and the senior citizen programs they help subsidize, Gov. Mark Schweiker said Tuesday.Do You Have The Missing, Winning Lottery Ticket?. A missing Texas Lotto ticket, worth $13 million, will expire one minute after midnight on Thursday and become worthless.Three winning claims made in $34M lottery. The Ohio Lottery said Monday that valid claims have been made on all three winning jackpot tickets sold in last Wednesday's $34 million Super Lotto Plus drawing.Familiar mugs appear in lottery ads. The first television ads for the South Carolina lottery, cheery spots designed to raise awareness of the games' approach, began Monday.Convicted lottery worker wants ID back. A Topeka man who admitted stealing $62,932 from the Kansas Lottery while working as its computer manager wants some of his property back, including his lottery photo identification badge.S.C. lottery to include Sunday drawings. South Carolina lottery players will be able to buy tickets and watch drawings on television every day of the week, including Sundays, despite the objections of some lottery commissioners.
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There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday drawing, but 2 lucky players from New Jersey matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
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Lottery offer probably too good to be true, officials say. Joe Schiferli and his wife, Inarae, would be out $760 today, if they were gullible. Fortunately, the Schiferlis were able to recognize an illegal lottery scam early enough to stop the culprits from stealing their money.
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $32 million Big Game drawing results!Lottery, usually opposed by casinos, floated in tax debate. It seemed odd Wednesday when gaming guy Mike Sloan suggested to the other members of the Nevada Governor's Task Force on Tax Policy that they look at a lottery.S.C. lottery TV ads begin. The first television ad for the South Carolina lottery, a cheery spot designed to raise awareness of the games' approach, began Monday.
Monday, December 17, 2001
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S.C. lottery ads won't be airing across N.C. line. Although S.C. lottery officials are counting on the Charlotte metro area to be one of their hottest markets, few people living north of the state line will catch the $300,000 advertising campaign that begins Monday.Bill would prohibit lenders from selling lottery tickets. Pawn shops and other places offering loans would not be able to sell lottery tickets under a bill pre-filed this week in the South Carolina Senate.Expansion of gambling gains support. Washington is considering a major expansion of the state's gambling business by bringing in The Big Game, a multistate lottery that may attract players from neighboring states.
Saturday, December 15, 2001
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The Big Game has the largest jackpot in the United States. After no one matched all the numbers drawn on Friday evening, The Big Game's new $32 million jackpot became the largest in the United States. The second largest is Connecticut, with $26 million, followed by Michigan and New York, tied at $21 million.
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 5 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize: 2 in Michigan and 3 in Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, December 14, 2001
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $28 million Big Game drawing results!Opinion: Online Gambling Is Here To Stay. The Combating Illegal Gambling Reform and Modernization Act, introduced on November 1 by U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte, (R-Virginia), pretends to be constructed in the interest of individuals, and in the best interest of U.S. financial concerns. It is just the opposite.Virginia man wins $150,000 in The Big Game. Imagine walking around for more than two months, not realizing you have a $150,000 winning Big Game ticket in your wallet.Tickets Arrive For First 4 S.C. Lottery Games. About 25 million South Carolina lottery tickets arrived Thursday morning at Scientific Games' warehouse in the Columbia suburb of Blythewood.Andrew N.S. Glazer: Playing poker, round by round. How to play and bet with seven-card stud and Texas hold'em.
Thursday, December 13, 2001
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Lottery Officials Check On Tickets. Gov. Jim Hodges and some South Carolina lottery officials visited Atlanta on Monday morning to watch some of the state's first lottery tickets roll off the presses.Police catch lotto bandit. A man police believe is the so-called "Lotto Bandit" who broke into dozens of closed convenience stores and stole scratch-off California Lottery tickets has been arrested, authorities said Tuesday.
Wednesday, December 12, 2001
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The were no jackpot winners and no $150,000 winners in the Tuesday drawing. For the complete rundown of winners in each of the other prize categories, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $24 million Big Game drawing results!Hodges scratches state's first lotto ticket. Three years after being elected on a promise to bring a lottery to South Carolina, Gov. Jim Hodges scratched off the state's first ticket Monday.Winners shrug at cash: What are the odds?. An unscratched $1 million grand prize ticket from the Massachusetts Lottery's Fast Millions game had been collecting lint inside a backpack for nearly three years.
Monday, December 10, 2001
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Pieces falling into place for lottery. With the South Carolina lottery less than a month from its Jan. 7 launch, lottery officials are scrambling toward the finish. After five months of slogging through the mechanics of creating a $300 million-a-year corporation, testy contract protests and its first lawsuit, the fun part is near, officials say.Ohio to gamble on mega-lottery. A decision on which game Ohio will hook up with - either Powerball or the Big Game - is expected by the end of the month, and tickets may go on sale as early as June.
Saturday, December 8, 2001
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 3 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize: 1 in Georgia, 1 in Massachusetts, and 1 in Michigan. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Friday, December 7, 2001
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $20 million Big Game drawing results!Georgia Lottery Reaches $1 Billion in Sales. "This is the earliest we have ever reached the $1 billion dollar sales mark in our eight-year history," announced Rebecca Paul president and CEO.Ohio opens door for entry in multi-state lottery. To stay in the black and out of the red, Gov. Bob Taft will sign a budget-balancing bill that raises taxes, uses the state savings account and tobacco settlement funds to pay for daily operations, and opens the door for Ohio to participate in a multi-state super lottery like the Big Game or Powerball.Georgia Lottery Player Wins Twice in Two Days. Susie Terry was thrilled to win $7,000 playing Lucky 7's. The following morning, as she was heading to the Georgia Lottery Corporation's Dalton District Office to claim her Lucky 7's top prize, she picked up a Giant Jumbo Bucks ticket and won $150,000.Lottery operators gear up. As the Jan. 7 startup date nears, South Carolina retailers are trained on the lottery machines.Andrew N.S. Glazer: Poker is here, for good or bad. The availability of legal poker is a good news/bad news situation because while it is possible for a skilled player to win at the game in the long run, very few do.
Thursday, December 6, 2001
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Work Still The Ticket For Winners. After posing for photographs and sipping champagne at Manhattan's 21 Club yesterday, Edwin and Rossana Berrios of Rego Park, New York received a lump sum check for $9,582,648 from New York Lottery officials.Retailers gear up for lottery sales. South Carolina retailers are anxious to begin selling lottery tickets.Ohio closer to adding a multi-state lottery game. Ohio would join a multi-state lottery and local governments would not lose state funding, under an agreement approved early Wednesday to balance the state budget.
Wednesday, December 5, 2001
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U.S. Justice Dept. Gives Lukewarm Support to Goodlatte Bill. Justice has "technical and other concerns" about Goodlatte's bill and another Internet gambling bill sponsored by Rep. Jim Leach, Republican-Iowa, and will reveal those "following additional interagency consultations."
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There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday drawing, but 2 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize: 1 in Illinois and 1 in Michigan. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
Tuesday, December 4, 2001
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Lottery places bets on pricey TV spot. The Colorado Lottery hopes to "hit the jackpot" with a $130,000 animated TV commercial promoting three new Holiday Scratch Games.
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Don't forget to check back with us tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Time for the live $16 million Big Game drawing results!Minnesota man claims Powerball jackpot. A man laid off from his job as a sheet metal worker a month ago claimed a $29.4 million lottery jackpot Monday.Cherie Takes Lottery Ticket Case. Cherie Blair is to take up the case of the couple who missed out on a £3m lottery jackpot because they lost their winning ticket.Kildare couple in court over ticket mix-up. A County Kildare couple have been granted a High Court injunction preventing the National Lottery from paying out half of Saturday night's Lotto jackpot.Lottery ads allowed in North Dakota. Radio and television stations in North Dakota will be allowed to air lottery advertisements, after reaching a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission.Gambling on finding the winning slogan. A humorous look at some alternative South Carolina Lottery slogans.
Monday, December 3, 2001
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Warsaw, VA man wins $150,000 Big Game prize. Michael Chambers of Warsaw, Virginia came to the Lottery's headquarters office in Richmond to claim his $150,000 prize from the November 20, 2001 drawing of The Big Game.Lawmakers Eye Web Gambling Law. Critics of Internet gambling are hoping that a new bill will succeed where past efforts to ban the activity have failed.Lottery Ticket Worth $29M Sold In Minnesota. A Powerball ticket bought in Minnesota was the lone winner in Saturday's national drawing, and the tiny slip of paper is worth $29.4 million.Ohio-Pa. lottery still not sure bet. Though several hurdles still exist, a joint Ohio-Pennsylvania lottery game still may become a reality.State to screen lotto sellers. South Carolina plans to regulate lottery ticket sales better than the flawed video poker system.
Saturday, December 1, 2001
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There was no jackpot winner in the Friday drawing, but 5 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $150,000 prize: 2 in New Jersey, 1 in Georgia, 1 in Illinois, and 1 in Virginia. For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, see the Winning Combinations page.
