A Bob Dancer Rule / Gold Coast

[onemoretry]

I'll try this again. Previous two posts were mine.

[Webman]

Whoops! I didn't know I was signed in on my wife's account. Previous post was mine.  Try the "log out" button at the top of the forum page but below the main
navigation (there are 2 up there). For some reason the main logout and the forum software
aren't the best of friends at the moment.

[faygo]

[QUOTE=one more try] I can't fathom why, even though it "takes only one ticket to win", people seem unwilling to acknowledge that if you have 25000 of those chances, you are a lot more likely to have one drawn.
 
With a $312M jackpot Wednesday night, how many Powerball tickets do you have to buy to get an 'advantage" ?  [/QUOTE]


 One of every possible number. C'mon that wasn't that hard.

[BillyJoe]

[QUOTE=billy joe]if you only have one drawing, and then all of your entries are discarded, whatever advantage you believe that you had evaporates with the drawing of one of your non-tickets.
 
Well, yes.
 
But, for that particular drawing, do you not think that a person with 25000 entries had a better chance of having a winner?  [/QUOTE]
"Chance" - of course. Enough advantage to make it a positive play? Not so much, given the relatively small top prize, and the investment required to get to that level of entries.

[BillyJoe]

[QUOTE=billyjoe][QUOTE=one more try] I can't fathom why, even though it "takes only one ticket to win", people seem unwilling to acknowledge that if you have 25000 of those chances, you are a lot more likely to have one drawn.
 
With a $312M jackpot Wednesday night, how many Powerball tickets do you have to buy to get an 'advantage" ?  [/QUOTE]


 One of every possible number. C'mon that wasn't that hard.[/QUOTE]
Assuming no multiple winners, though. What happens to that play if there are ten winners?

[Quad Deuces]

[quote]"Chance" - of course. Enough advantage to make it a positive play? Not so much, given the relatively small top prize, and the investment required to get to that level of entries. [/QUOTE]Investment of time and effort, maybe, but there are positive games through the whole ticket earning process.  Barely positive, but positive.  99.82% plus 2X points is 100.02%  Takes a little over two hours to put $10K through for me.  But playing video poker is fun.

[onemoretry]

Try the "log out" button at the top of the forum page but below the main
navigation (there are 2 up there). For some reason the main logout and the forum software
aren't the best of friends at the moment.
 I see what you mean.  I obviously didn't know you had to log out on both the home and forum pages to be really logged out.

[ginfre]

I swear, like a bunch of old ladies.

[Tedlark]

I swear, like a bunch of old ladies.
   Now that's insulting to all of the old ladies of the world...

[faygo]

[QUOTE=faygo][QUOTE=billyjoe][QUOTE=one more try] I can't fathom why, even though it "takes only one ticket to win", people seem unwilling to acknowledge that if you have 25000 of those chances, you are a lot more likely to have one drawn.
 
With a $312M jackpot Wednesday night, how many Powerball tickets do you have to buy to get an 'advantage" ?  [/QUOTE]


 One of every possible number. C'mon that wasn't that hard.[/QUOTE]
Assuming no multiple winners, though. What happens to that play if there are ten winners? You would only get back 1/10th of your investment.You must admit it did give an advantage by assuring a win even as in your senario it had multiple winners.[/QUOTE]