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like you say it would never be worth it,so my 14m is staying in my poker account
I can assure you it's absolutely true. The lady that bought the ticket was a regular customer, her name is Glenys Churchill, she was a nursing auxiliary at Wrexham Maelor Hospital and was in an 8 nurse syndicate. The night she bought the ticket she had queued for a while at Woolworths but had to leave the queue to catch her bus home, whereupon, she called into our shop and bought the ticket. The nurses each received just over £1 million each. She bought a new Skoda and a caravan in Towyn with her winnings.
The friend of mine was Mel who owned a pallet recovery business in Manchester. He lived at Bronwylfa Hall in Wrexham at the time he won the lottery for the second time. He originally bought the Hall with his first lottery winnings and moved here from Manchester. I was telling him that we had been awarded the lottery at one of our shops and he jokingly offered to come and bless it for us. Mel still drives his favourite car - a Morris Minor Estate and spends most of his days gardening.
A quick story about Mel and his Missus - One day I called round for a brew and he was in the garden. We had a chat for a while and went into the house. He asked if I wanted some lunch and we had beans on toast whilst he explained that he hadn't seen his wife all morning and asked if I'd seen her. He rang his daughter in Manchester thinking she may have gone across for a visit but she wasn't there. His attitude was ''ahh well she'll turn up eventually'' and he went back to his gardening. Later that afternoon he got a phone call from her saying she had driven to Manchester Airport early that morning and caught a flight to New York to ''do a bit of shopping.''
no offence to your mate but bit of a waste though, winning the jackpot twice and all he can be bothered to do is potter about in the garden.
If that was me id be getting off my t!ts everyday on poker, crack and hookers! charlie sheen style!
He obviously doesn't have your mature outlook on life. He just wasted his money on his family.
great story
im gonna have to brush up on my pre post leaks
If we assume you have bought all combinations and have contributed half the pool and that you share the jackpot. Half of all the minor prizes will go to you, but you paid in half the pool. Similarly with the jackpot.
The only way to profit is when you are the only jackpot winner. Even sharing it with one other person results in a loss once expenses are deducted - a bit like rake. If you share it with more than one other you would suffer a huge loss even with all the minor prizes.
Also the logistics of placing and collecting 14 million tickets should not be underestimated. It would be a mammoth task. You could end up like those bank robbers who spent 6 months digging two tunnels for a 7 grand payday. Work it out 4 men - 6 months of digging for 7 grand - better off working at Maccy D's
Hope that makes you feel better Dave
still think you are bulling about the "mate" though....you forgot to name his dog and granny
Mel in Gardening mode
SALFORD-born Lottery winner Mel Eddison could be forgiven for not being bowled over by his £2.5 million jackpot haul.He was, after all, already a millionaire, complete with a chateau in France and a villa in Spain. But when news of his win came through, he did admit sinking a few glasses, possibly with wine made by his own vineyard.And after splitting his winnings with his business partner, Mel used his £1.25 million share to buy another 'pile' - a mansion outside Wrexham in North Wales.
(BTW he sold the ''pile'' went travelling around Australia and hasn't been seen since.)
I doubt the lottery would lead to massive excesses amongst some of us. What it would bring is freedom and peace of mind. His family can take off for a bit of shopping in New York if thats their thing and he can prune his roses.
Each to their own, much rather see this than that idiot chav who destroyed his neighbourhood snorting charlie and tearing up the grounds of his house playing dodgems with cars....
Wonder what happened to him........ Oh yeah, thats right......
Sky should change its name to; Sky's the Limit. !!
if you wanna see bad beat after bad beat, go and play at pokerstars, its absolutly awfull there if ur all in with poket KK and ur called by any ace (and i mean any ace) you have lost end of story.
aces hit the board there 8 times out of ten, thats the reason i eventuallu quit playing there.
i came to sky poker and noticed the difference immediatly KK does win here u arent guaranteed an ace on the board all the time.
just deal with the times ur running bad and enjoy the game.
if u cant do that then quit poker and take up golf or something.
good luck at the tables guys
stuart
2 hands on 2 tables within 1 minute of each other, Short stacked in a cash game, and have J7 on a bit of a tilt but a J7 come on the flop, guy goes all in against me with KK I called and a 2nd jack comes on the turn for a full house and yes you've guesed it, A king comes on the river, I know under normal circumstances I should not have been in the hand but come on how many bad Rivers are we going to get with this terrible site.
Next hand in A Bounty hunter tournament again Got pocket 5's guy bets 2 times BB I call 544 comes down, oh happy days you think, I raise the pot he comes over the top, gotta call yeah, oh no the guy is holding pocket 4s, now get a grip this just can't happen, if the site was kosher and I 100% believe it is not.
I believe there are Sky poker employees playing this site and can manipulate it somehow, now please don't tell me it's impossible, these guys built the site, also please don't tell me that they wouldn't be playing small staked games because that is the perfect place to use a scam like this in the long term, you can hide behind the rotten players for which there are plenty at the small level, you could not hide the really bad beats at the higher levels and you would also find that any good players that were getting scammed like that would not be putting hundreds and sometimes thousands on the line, they would get away with it for a while but not long,
I will not be depositing a single penny into this site
It's also funny that when you look up some of these players on Sharkscope or sky's poker league there name is nowhere to be seen, suspicious eh?
K
If you were a employee working on the poker site, If you knew you could earn £20,000 - £30,000 every year tax free with very little chance of being caught by your employer and know even if you did get caught there is no way they would prosecute, would you not be tempted, lets face it they could not afford to prosecute as it would bring the whole thing down if it be know that the system could be manipulated in some way and to earn that amount of money ain't that difficult if you played 5 large stack 5/10 and doubled up each time, That's £100 a day and on average you work 200 days a year, Simples CHLK