Using Chinese lucky numbers to play the lottery

August 7, 2009 by  
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We all have different ways to select our lottery numbers. Some of us use numbers that have personal sentiment while others may use numbers which have been drawn the most often. You can also have you numbers selected for you when you buy your tickets but why not try using Chinese lucky numbers to play the lottery?

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Powerball jackpot rolls over again

August 6, 2009 by  
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Last night’s Powerball draw saw a lucky Power Play ticket scoop over $1 million but the Powerball jackpot rolls over again pushing the jackpot for Saturday nights’ draw up to $161 million. There were 778,801 players who won more than $5.9 Million in prizes but the jackpot wasn’t won.

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Sicilian mayor bought lottery tickets to raise funds for his town

August 4, 2009 by  
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The mayor of a small Sicilian town is attempting to help ease it’s cash-flow problems by purchasing tickets for Italy’s SuperEnalotto state lottery. The SuperEnalotto jackpot hasn’t been won in weeks, and it has climbed to an unprecedented €116 million which is roughly £98m, so the Sicilian mayor bought lottery tickets to raise funds for his town.

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EuroMillions Lottery winner still owns her old flat

August 3, 2009 by  
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The biggest lottery winner that Britain has ever seen continues to return to her old ex-council home near to Glasgow even though she also owns an £800,000 luxury mansion. The lucky EuroMillions Lottery winner still owns the old flat where all of her old furniture and curtains remain.

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Florida pensioner who lost his winning lottery ticket

August 2, 2009 by  
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Here at Online-Lotto we bring you stories of unlucky people losing their prizes for one reason or another but you can’t help but feel sorry for the Florida pensioner who lost his winning lottery ticket on the way to claim what would have been a life-changing $500,000 prize.

Last Wednesday Louis Tolentino, a 69-year-old pensioner from Wellington, Florida went to his local Gold Coast Liquor store as usual to buy Gold Rush scratch off tickets, which are run by Florida Lottery who also operate Powerball. He was amazed when he scratched off the panels and saw a five with five zeroes following it, he rushed to the store owner to confirm he was reading it correctly as he was overcome with excitement. The store owner scanned the ticket and sure enough, it was a $500,000 winning lottery ticket!

Tolentino quickly stashed the ticket in his back pocket, jumped in his car and headed for the Florida Lottery office. The unlucky lottery winner had difficulty finding the office so he stopped at a convenience store to ask for directions. As he furthered his journey he realized that his winning lottery ticket was missing. He panicked, and then injured his hands while furiously searching under the driver seat of his car. He hurriedly rushed back to the store where he bought the ticket but there was no sign of it anywhere. Was the winning ticket stolen? Did it fall out his back pocket? The unfortunate pensioner says he has no idea. ‘The worst part about it’ says Tolentino is that in his excitement he forgot to sign the winning ticket meaning that anyone who finds it can turn it in and claim the half a million dollar prize.

Don’t be like the Florida pensioner who lost his winning lottery ticket, let this be a warning to you. Sign you tickets. Or better still play online lotto where there’s no chance of losing your tickets.

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