Pool Wins $9, Jackpot Gets Reset, see you in about 3 weeks!

'nuff said.

John

Payments due / Lottery Pool Bank Balances

One of the members had an excellent idea and I had a variation of that idea in the works for the site here. A link here that would show whether or not you've paid or banked funds for an upcoming draw. If you have an objection to your name being posted here for that purpose? Then please let me know. If you'd still like to know your balance here anonomously? Then we can associate a number instead of your name for that purpose. Email me with any objections to kwlotterypool@cox.net. Thanks!

Jackpot Gets Crazy, Pool is IN for Wednesday!

The jackpot is approaching near record levels again at $240 million with a cash payout of $114 million. There were no winners recorded for this past Saturday so the pool will be collecting participation dues for the Wednesday draw on the Jan. 24th. If you're not sure if you are payed up - check with me.

We didn't participate in any draws during the snow days even though we did have a few members bank funds. Since I was unable to collect dues from other members - I thought it prudent to wait until I could. It looks like that was a wise move with the current jackpot level!

Good luck to us all!

Pool Wins A Whopping $6!

Sorry folks, we can't retire yet - but at least we didn't completely blank out this time!

Drawing results are still pending - so watch this space for updates. If nobody wins? It's going to start getting crazy with the jackpot skyrocketing as more and more people try to get a piece of the action. The jackpot will probably be in the $150 million range before the evening is out and if no one wins Saturday? We'll be heading towards $200 million....

Jackpot Breaks $100 million, no winners for KWLP

It's rather disheartening to see that two tickets won $600,000 this morning knowing that we were one number away from doing the same on October 18th, 2006. Nobody across that nation got the jackpot numbers right last night so the jackpot once again inches towards record levels.

Several things were working against us last night. The powerball was the last number on the list the spreadsheet would have picked and we got quite a few two whiteballs right in sets, but not a third that would have meant a payout. We didn't have as many participants as well so that didn't help our winning odds either. The odds are only 1 in 36 that you'll win any prize. We only had 42 picks....you do the math. It also didn't help that I was rushing to prepare the numbers and made it to buy tickets with about 5 minutes to spare!

I am currently working on a major tweak to the lottery spreadsheet so maybe that we'll help us fare better next Wednesday. If nobody wins Saturday the cash payout will probably be up to the $70 million range!

Happy New Year! Jackpot continues to grow....

Nobody won the jackpot this past Saturday so now the pot grows to a $42.6 million dollar cash payout for the top winner.

The pool is in for this Wednesday's draw and unless you are among the few who have some banked funds left - either $2 or $5 is due before we leave school TODAY (Wednesday.)

Hopefully, our luck will improve and the lottery spreadsheet will guess numbers better then what we experienced at the end of 2006. Good luck to us all!