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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.
