Pool Wins $30 & Gears Up for Next Big Drawing!

A big welcome to our new members! Patrice Smoote, Latoya Moore, and Pam Collins! The more members the merrier! (And the better chance we have of winning something significant!)

We won $30 last Wednesday night (April 23rd) on a correct computer pick powerball drawing. The multiplier was a whopping 10x increasing our earnings from $3 to the $30 take.

Because of other obligations I had that evening, I opted to use all computer picks for our 70 picks rather than using spreadsheet generated numbers. This evening I plan to go back to the spreadsheet and see what Powerball numbers it would have predicted should be at the top of the list. If last week's PB was near the top? It sure would be a disappointment since the bonus 10x multiplier comes up once in a blue moon when the promotion runs.

Cross your fingers for a lucky drawing for the pool this Wednesday! The jackpot is approaching $200 million! All banked balances, payments, and IOUs should be up to date. Click on the "Pool Financials" link to the

Pool blanks, but gears up for next drawing

Last Wednesday we had a night of bad luck, earning zilch from our 73 number picks. Nobody won the jackpot for that evening and the same holds true for this past Saturday, so the jackpot now climbs to $91 million for this coming Wednesday.

The good news is that we still have $166 in our pool earnings' bank to contribute to expanded number set purchases. I believe we are also on track to have a record year for the pool in earnings. We've already won $362 - just $200 behind our 2007 total - and $200 more eclipse our initial record year of $748. (But remember we played nearly every drawing at first that year too.)

Pool banked and direct payments are up to date. Please check the comments column to see if you owe for any past drawings.

Thanks for your continued support of the pool!

John

Pool Pulls In Nearly $100!

We had an excellent evening tonight - in fact our third best in pool history - pulling in $92 in winning picks. I opted to only use $2 of our $98 in previous earnings for tonight's drawing - so now our pool piggy bank will bulge with $196 in earnings! As the jackpot grows? So will the number of extra picks we have for each drawing.

The spreadsheet decided that 33 should be number two on the list as one of the best picks for the power ball and chose it 7 times - giving us $12 and $16 wins to pull in the the $92 total.