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SEVEN Time Big Lottery Winner in Florida Plans to Tell All; He Says He has a System. Let the Buyer Beware

Those of you who are regular readers of these postings know that I do not believe systems work. I always warn players against putting down their hard earned money on systems that simply exist to make the system designer money.

I’ve written two books on the lottery…one is shown on this page (still available). And I devote a few chapters on scams, etc.

If you surf the net, looking for interesting lottery sites, you’ll always find people hawking their systems.

Well, let me clue you in on something. I worked for the CA, MD, DC lotteries, among others, and if any number picking system worked, lotteries would be out of business. And they’re not. In fact, they’re making more money now, during this great recession, than ever.

So people selling systems (wheels are particularly popular and enticing because the basic theory of wheeling holds true) make their money selling systems, not winning the lottery.

Just keep that in mind because I ran across something recently that is pretty interesting.

An Orlando man is having a streak of incredible lottery luck.

Richard Lustig just cashed in on a winning Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 ticket worth nearly $100,000.

It’s the SEVENTH time he’s won a lottery grand prize and he told a local TV station in Orlando that he plans to keep on playing.

“You can win and I’ve proven it,” Lustig said.

Lustig said he had a special method to how he plays the lottery, but would not reveal his secret.

“I can’t just give it away. I have it printed out and I have been selling it to people.”

Uh oh. He wants to sell you his winning system? Let the buyer beware.

Lustig, who owns an entertainment company in Orlando, said he’s been perfecting his method of playing the lottery for years.

“My very first grand prize was just over 17 years ago, two weeks after my son was born,” he said.

We did do some fact checking with Florida. In 2008, Lustig hit the Fantasy 5 jackpot, winning more than $73,000. Six years earlier, he walked away with nearly $843,000 while playing Florida’s Mega Money.

Is he just lucky? Or does the sonofagun really have a system?

Lustig is writing a book about how he’s been able to win so many times, but now he says he will have to change the title.

“We had ’6- time lottery grand prize winner,’ and we just scratched it out because, as of this week, it’s now seven,” he said.

Lustig said he did buy lottery tickets every day, but would not say how many or what kind. He says he’s also won thousands of small prizes while playing the lottery.

Hmmm. Stay tuned.

Lottery Worldwide Jackpots: Top 5

The American lottery games of Mega Millions and Powerball have not had jackpot winners for a few draws now, so the big prizes are getting serious.

Here are your top 5 jackpots around the world, and the dates of the next draw.

1. $86 million, Mega Millions, next draw Aug. 17

2. $64 million, Powerball, next draw Aug. 18

3. $36 million in Canadian dollars ($34.6 in USD), Lotto Max, Aug. 20. Tickets can only be bought in Canada, nationwide.

4. $24 million, Indiana Lotto, Aug. 18. Tickets can only be purchased in the state of Indiana.

5. 15 million euros (about $19 million in USD), Euro Millions, Aug. 20. Tickets can only be bought in six European countries, including the U.K., Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and France. Drawing is every Friday night in Paris.

Good luck everyone.

Kisses, Flowers and a Winning $100,000 Missouri Lottery Ticket; How’s that for Heating Up a Marriage?

When is the last time you ever bought your wife flowers?

Good reaction, huh?

Now imagine this: Not only did David Thiele of BransonMissouri, surprise his wife with a bouquet of fresh flowers on Aug. 9, but he also gave her something extra – a $100,000 winning Missouri Lottery Scratchers ticket.

With a laugh, Thiele, 46, said the gesture “almost gave her (wife) a heart attack.”

I can understand her surprise, though.

“I handed her the flowers, and she said, ’Oh, they’re pretty cute,’ and then I showed her the ticket, and she didn’t understand what it was at first,” he recalled.  “Once she read the fourth line down, she sort of freaked out.  Her jaw pretty much dropped to the ground!”

Days earlier, Thiele was on his way to work when he stopped at QuikTrip,  in Springfield.  He thought the Missouri Lottery “Casino Cash” Scratchers ticket “looked like one that would be all right to play,” so he tried his luck.

And how.

Thiele, a mechanic, was “sitting outside of work, getting ready to go in,” when he uncovered the top prize.

“I didn’t believe it was (a winner) for awhile,” he said.  “I had to keep looking at it to make sure it was actually saying $100,000.”

After checking the ticket three or four times, the father of four went on with his workday, while keeping the ticket “under lock and key the whole time.”

As for how he will spend the windfall, he plans to “get completely out of debt.”

Smart move.

Virginia Retiree Hits $250,000 Mega Millions Prize

Another cool winner story caught my attention recently.

Carl Moyer of Leesburg, Virginia, learned he had won $250,000 by watching the news.

After the June 29 Mega Millions drawing, there were news reports about a ticket in Leesburg that matched the first five numbers to win the game’s second prize. It didn’t take him long to find out he had that ticket!

“It was an eye-opener,” he said.

“I thought, ‘This can’t be right.’”

It was. And he had just won $250,000.

The winning numbers for the June 29 drawing were 3-4-15-27-37 and the Mega Ball number was 35.

The ticket was the only one in Virginia to win $250,000 in that drawing, and one of just five nationwide.

Moyer, who is retired, said he had no immediate plans for the winnings.

Golden Gophers! Minnesota Pool Wins $460,000; It Pays to Pool, Right?

Four regular patrons and employees of The Dugout Bar in Mahtomedi each contributed $2 toward the June 9 Gopher 5 drawing because the jackpot was an advertised $460,000.

Scott Wertheiner bought the group’s 28 quick-picks at Freedom Valu Center on Stillwater Road in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, and checked the tickets against the winning numbers on his laptop at the Dugout after the drawing on June 9.

After discovering that the 27th set of numbers matched the winning numbers (4-5-10-32-35), he went into the office to verify their $230,179 win and passed the ticket around to several group members. A second ticket also matched all five winning numbers so the group will split half of the $460,358 prize, still good reason to smile.

So the next time someone asks you to join a pool…think about it.

Lottery Jackpots Around the World: Your Top 5

Mega Millions, the multi-state USA lottery continues to grow after Friday’s no-win jackpot.

Here are your top 5, and the dates of the next draws:

1. $64 million, Mega Millions, Aug. 10

2. $50 million in Canadian dollars, $48.7 in USD, Lotto Max, Aug. 13. Tickets available ONLY in Canada, nationwide.

3. $38 million, Powerball, Aug. 11

4. $23 million, Indiana Lotto, Aug. 11. Tickets available ONLY in Indiana.

5. $20 million, SuperLotto Plus, Aug. 11. Tickets available ONLY in California.

Good luck, everyone.

Out of Work Mechanic Wins $10,000; See? Sometimes Good Things Happen to Good People

“This win has come at the right time,” said 48-year-old Wesley Grimes, who has been out of work since December.

The Baltimore, Maryland, resident’s $10,000 third-tier Powerball prize will surely help out his situation.

Wesley is a regular Lottery player of jackpot games, as he purchases tickets often.

On his way home from picking up his wife from work, he purchased his tickets.  Not even thinking about a win, Wesley went home and spent a quiet evening with his wife. He found out about the win the day after the drawing.

“I saw that I had the Powerball number from watching the news,” he said. “I didn’t even check the rest of the numbers until later in the day.” That’s when he saw he matched four other numbers. He immediately called his wife who was equally as shocked.

Wesley, who has been out of work since December, was a Maintenance Mechanic. He injured his shoulder and had to have surgery. “I really need this money to pay some bills,” said the lucky player.

In addition, Wesley is going to take his wife to a nice dinner. The winning ticket was purchased at the Royal Farms store, located on Keswick Road in Baltimore.

California Scratch Winner Pockets a Cool $1,000,000 (that’s a million, y’all)

A Clearlake, California woman claimed her $1,000,000 “Millions in Cash” winning lottery ticket on July 28, 2010.

Awesome. Here is her story, thanks to officials at the California Lottery.

Patricia Zalpis was totally surprised when she scratched the ticket to reveal it was a $1 million dollar winner.

According to the California Lottery, “She bought her Millions in Cash ticket along with several other Scratchers game tickets and decided to scratch them off in the store. After working her way through several non-winners, she slowly began to scratch the Millions in Cash ticket. After seeing she had matched the winning number, she went to work scratching the prize amount, thinking she had maybe won a free ticket.

“At first I thought I won 10 dollars,” she said. “Then 100, then 1,000, and then I saw the million and I thought ‘no way,’ said Zalpis dismissively. “So I set that ticket aside and won $8 on my other tickets and then went back to it. I just could not digest it.”

Nebraska Woman Picks 5 of 6 Powerball Numbers, Wins $200,000

Sandra Havlat of Crete, Nebraska recently won $200,000 playing Powerball.

She won in a July 10 game, by the way.

Havlat bought a quick pick Powerball ticket at Stop ‘N Shop  convenience store in Crete. The ticket contained all five of the winning white ball numbers (20, 21, 27, 28, 56) from the July 10 draw for the $200,000 prize.

By the way, 53 Nebraska Lottery players have won the $200,000 Powerball prize to date.

While claiming her prize on July 12, Havlat told Nebraska Lottery officials that she was “surprised” to realize she had won the $200,000 prize.

Well, who wouldn’t be?

“I was having lunch with some friends, and they told me a winning Powerball ticket had been sold in town,” she said.

Later, Havlat had her ticket checked at a Nebraska Lottery retailer and learned that it was the $200,000 winning ticket. She plans to pay bills using her winnings.

Awesome. I love hearing winner stories.

Lottery Jackpots Around the World: Top 5

ONE lucky ticket matched all the Powerball numbers on July 31, and that ticket is worth more than $85 million.

Meanwhile, here are the top 5  jackpots currently in play around the world:

1. $50 million in Canadian dollars, Lotto Max, next draw is Aug. 6

2. $42 million, Mega Millions in U.S.A., next draw is Aug. 3

3. $22 million, Indiana Lotto, next draw, Aug. 4. Tickets can be bought ONLY in Indiana.

4. $20 million, Powerball, Aug. 4

5. 15 million euros, Euro Millions, Aug. 6. Tickets can be bought ONLY in six European countries, including the U.K., France, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland.

Good luck, everyone.

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