Powerball Pools: The Do’s and Don’ts of Office Buy-Ins
Powerball fever is sweeping the nation. The Powerball jackpot is at a record high of $550 million. And with the winnings so high, everyone is rushing to buy a ticket in the hope that they’ll be the lucky winner.
A popular means of lotto ticket purchasing is an office pool — in which a group of colleagues pools their money, buys a slate of tickets together and promises to share the winnings equally. It can be a fun bonding experience with your co-workers, but there are do’s and don’ts to abide by, on the off-chance that your ticket(s) have the winning numbers.
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10 Office Lottery Pools Gone Terribly Wrong
Office lottery pools. They’re an innocent way for coworkers to bond. A collective dream to lift you out of the daily grind. But they’re also potential scenes of Greek tragedy-style betrayal, greed, envy, loss and devastation.
McDonald’s employee Mirlande Wilson reportedly claimed she was one of the three winners of the record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions lottery on Monday. Although Maryland Lottery officials say no one has claimed the ticket yet, a drama is already brewing at McDonald’s, where employees claim Wilson’s dream ticket was purchased as part of an office pool. Wilson insists that she bought it separately, and doesn’t plan to share the winnings.
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McDonald’s workers claim colleague who ‘lost’ winning $100m Mega Millions ticket
Fourteen McDonald’s employees from Baltimore are suing a co-worker for allegedly stealing more than $100 million in lottery winnings from a ticket that the employees say they had purchased together.
The lawsuit claims that 37-year-old Mirlande Wilson bought a winning lottery ticket with the group’s pooled money and then avoided giving them their payouts – even though Wilson never actually claimed the Mega Millions jackpot award.
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SEPTA 48 take a winning $107 million lottery bow
Thanks to a lucky lunch break — or was it the power of prayer? — the four dozen happiest people in Philadelphia were introduced to an envious public today as they claimed a Powerball jackpot worth $107,533,238.27 in cash.
They filled rows of chairs at a late morning news conference, telecast live from SEPTA headquarters, where most of them have worked for tenures of less than a year to 42 years. Ranging in age from 26 to 69, including some who were already retired, they vowed no further media meet and greets would be granted.
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Mega Millions Jackpot Brings Another Lawsuit
Another man in Chicago claims he is one of now five bakers owed dough–their fair share of $118 million in winnings from the Illinois State Lottery. They say they were part of a betting pool at the Pita Pan Old World Bakery in Chicago Heights that won the windfall in a May 4 drawing.
Chris Tzinis is the latest worker who claims he was part of the bakery’s office pool since its start in December 2011. He said he last contributed to the pool on March 30 at the request of a lottery pool member, but was not asked to pitch in more money for the May 4 drawing, according to the suit filed with Cook County’s circuit court.
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Quaker workers from Iowa claim $241M Powerball
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A group of 20 workers at the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids have stepped forward as winners of a $241 million Powerball jackpot.
Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says one of the workers bought the winning ticket for the group for the June 13 drawing and the winnings will be split 20 ways.
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Mega Millions Jackpot Brings Another Lawsuit
Another man in Chicago claims he is one of now five bakers owed dough–their fair share of $118 million in winnings from the Illinois State Lottery. They say they were part of a betting pool at the Pita Pan Old World Bakery in Chicago Heights that won the windfall in a May 4 drawing.
Chris Tzinis is the latest worker who claims he was part of the bakery’s office pool since its start in December 2011. He said he last contributed to the pool on March 30 at the request of a lottery pool member, but was not asked to pitch in more money for the May 4 drawing, according to the suit filed with Cook County’s circuit court.
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Bell Helicopter employees win $28 million lottery jackpot
A $5 weekly investment in a lottery office pool has paid off for a group of Bell Helicopter employees in Fort Worth, Texas.
The group of seven men and three women learned they won the $28 million jackpot Sunday morning.
The winning Lotto Texas numbers were 13, 36, 38, 45, 46, and 49.
“When I saw that we had all six numbers, I just lost it… man, I lost it!” Mario Mercado said.