British Couple Hit for $88 Million Euro Millions Prize (Spanish Winner Also Hits, Wins Same Amount)
How would you react if your father and mother just won $88 million dollars playing EuroMillions?
“Whatever” was the reply.
Indeed.
When Nigel Page discovered he had won £56 million ($88 million in USD) on the lottery he couldn’t say a word while his stunned partner Justine Laycock, said: “Oh my God”.
But her 15-year-old daughter Georgia’s [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under Basics, European, Lottery, Stories
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How to Lose a $15.2 Million Dollars Lottery Jackpot in 8 Years and 5 Easy Lessons
Thanks again to Philadelphia News columnist Howard Gensler for bringing this story to my attention, and now yours.
It’s the lamentable story of Lotto winner Michael Carroll, back on the “dole” in the U.K., after spending his £9.7 million ($15.2 million, in U.S. dollars) in eight years.
How he did it is the stuff of which lotto [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under Basics, Culture, European, Lottery, Stories
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Euro Millions’ Jackpot Soars to 129 Million Euros (About $176 Million in USD); One Powerball Winner ($140 Million) in North Carolina
Go ‘heels.
The Tarheel state has produced a big Powerball jackpot winner of the Feb. 6 game, worth $140 million.
We’ll let you know who won when he, she, they, step forward.
So the next Powerball jackpot, on Feb. 10, is worth $20 million.
The Mega Millions jackpot on Feb. 9 is up to $32 million.
And now the big [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under Basics, European, Lottery, Lump Sum
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Confucius Lottery Ticket, Pissing Some People Off in China
Many of you don’t know that there is a lively lottery business in China, but it’s true and here is some of the evidence.
From an item in the China Daily, one of the country’s leading English language media outlets, I hear the story of…get this, a Confucius lottery ticket.
He must be turning over in his [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under Basics, European, Lottery, Stories
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George Clooney Plays Italian Lottery, Hoping to Add to Monies for Haiti’s Victims
My thanks to Howard Gensler, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, for sending me this short item.
It seems that actor George Clooney wants to win the lottery for Haiti.
The 48 year-old actor and his gal pal, Elisabetta Canalis, were seen in an official Italian superenalotto game shop, where they supposedly splashed out hundreds of [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under Basics, European, Lottery
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A Ticket to Ride? 76 Year-Old British Cabbie Drives Away with 26 Million ($37 Million in U.S. Dollars) Euro Millions Prize
He insists he won’t give up his day job.
That’s right. England’s latest Euro Millions lottery millionaire is a taxi driver named George Sturt, 76, of Dorking in Surrey and he told the British press that despite his Euro Millions win of 26 million euros (about $37 million in USD), he won’t give up his day [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under Basics, European, Lottery, Stories
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UK Euro Millions Winners Celebrate $42 Million (in USD) Jackpot Win
The Sturt Family from Dorking, UK are celebrating after leaping into fourth place in the National Lottery Rich List. The four members of the family syndicate won half of the EuroMillions jackpot in the draw on Friday Jan. 15, to bank a stunning £26,151,124.20. That’s about $42 million in USD.
Father George, 75, and his three [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under European, Lottery, Stories
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Mega Millions Jackpot Soars to $121 Million; Powerball at $65 Million; Euro Millions Rolls Over to 28 Million Euros ($39.6 Million USD)
There were no jackpot winners in the Jan. 22 Mega Millions game so the top prize rolls over to a VERY attractive $121 million.
Helluva way to start the new year, by winning that, eh?
The Jan. 22 numbers are: 8,13,27,28,52 and Mega ball 9.
9 tickets matched the first five numbers (but not the 9 ball) and [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under European, Lottery, Lump Sum, Opinion, Picking Numbers, Random Facts
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Two Euro Millions’ Winners Share Top Prize, Take Home 26.1 Million Euros Each ($37.4 Million USD)
Two lucky winning ticket holders, in France and the UK, will each be taking home a top prize of 26.1 million euros (about $37.4 million in U.S. dollars) after the Jan. 16 draw.
The U.K. winner is the third biggest prize ever in the U.K.
Now, the report from the National newspaper, the Star, in the U.K.
According [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under Basics, European, Lottery
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Jackpots On the Rise; Mega Millions to $86 Million, Powerball to $51 Million
There were no jackpot winners in America’s two multi-state games, but in Europe two winning tickets will share a 54 million euro jackpot. Those tickets were bought in France and the U.K. (they get about $26.1 million euros each).
The Powerball numbers on Jan. 17 are 7,8,23,41,55 and Power ball 23. Two tickets matched the first [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2010 by DocLotto | Filed Under Basics, European, Lottery, Lump Sum, Random Facts
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