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Are all the Lotto’s rigged? Texas Lotto accused of working hand in hand with Lotto winner.
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:18 pm
[quote]Some slick Euro gambler named Bernard Marantelli and his Delaware shell corp Rook TX just pulled the ultimate middle finger to every broke-arse Texan buying scratch-offs at the gas station. The play: Lotto Texas jackpot hits $95M after 93 rollovers. 25.8M possible combos. Each ticket $1. The move: They printed 25.8 MILLION TICKETS in 72 hours. One pop-up Colleyville warehouse alone spat out $11M in tickets (4 per second) using iPads and QR codes. The math: Spent ~$25M, won $95M + $2.5M in small prizes. Net: $33M profit (pre-tax). Odds of losing: basically zero. Texas Lottery helped them—fast-tracked extra terminals. {/quote]
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Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:22 pm to AncientTiger
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Texas Lottery helped them—fast-tracked extra terminals.
That seems borderline criminal.
I wish the jackpot would've split 10 ways and they lost their arse.
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:24 pm to AncientTiger
Don’t know about rigged, but definitely peak douchebag activities from that guy
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:26 pm to AncientTiger
Anything (sports, church, corporate, entertainment, etc) with that much money involved…yes, there’s some level of ‘cheating the system’ in all of it.
This post was edited on 11/14/25 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:27 pm to AncientTiger
The vast majority of big jackpots are won by organized criminals, including Powerball and MM.
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:27 pm to AncientTiger
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The math: Spent ~$25M, won $95M + $2.5M in small prizes. Net: $33M profit (pre-tax).
Ummm....
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:28 pm to Kenna City Solja
It wasn't prohibited by statute or rule but definitely rubbed the common folk the wrong way and the LT. Gov who went on the warpath sacking the executive director and moved the Lotto Commission under TDLR over it
This post was edited on 11/14/25 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:28 pm to AncientTiger
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The math: Spent ~$25M, won $95M + $2.5M in small prizes. Net: $33M profit (pre-tax
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:32 pm to AncientTiger
OP....
First off, i don't understand why "quoting" something was difficult for you, but whoever you are quoting, is detarded, like yourself.
Second, the math don't work
and C why are they giving middle finger to people buying scratch offs when they won the lottery?
and it's not illegal to buy 25.8M lottery tickets.
First off, i don't understand why "quoting" something was difficult for you, but whoever you are quoting, is detarded, like yourself.
Second, the math don't work
and C why are they giving middle finger to people buying scratch offs when they won the lottery?
and it's not illegal to buy 25.8M lottery tickets.
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:37 pm to TeddyPadillac
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First off, i don't understand why "quoting" something was difficult for you, but whoever you are quoting, is detarded, like yourself.
Quoting Grok…..you mad or just STUPID?
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:40 pm to AncientTiger
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Quoting Grok…..you mad or just STUPID?
so you do know how to quote.
Way to go slugger.
Posted on 11/14/25 at 1:47 pm to AncientTiger
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The math: Spent ~$25M, won $95M + $2.5M in small prizes. Net: $33M profit (pre-tax)
Texas Lottery helped
Was nice of the writer to already include the Texas Lottery commission's cut when figuring out the profits.
Posted on 11/14/25 at 2:11 pm to The Mick
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Ummm....
Maybe lump sum math
Posted on 11/14/25 at 2:17 pm to AncientTiger
There was a very interesting conspiracy theory on YouTube presented outline how often major lottery winners have or had ties to US intel/CIA.
Haven’t looked into it with any seriousness, but statistically those folks seemed to be surprisingly lucky.
Haven’t looked into it with any seriousness, but statistically those folks seemed to be surprisingly lucky.
Posted on 11/14/25 at 3:21 pm to AncientTiger
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Are all the Lotto’s rigged?
All the Lotto’s what?
Posted on 11/14/25 at 3:26 pm to AncientTiger
quote:It's not rigged. It's there for anyone to win.
Are all the Lotto’s rigged?
Has no one seen Jerry & Marge Go Large?
Posted on 11/14/25 at 3:56 pm to GREENHEAD22
I dont think the vast majority of lottery winner are OC. But there was some jersey gangster that one a pretty big prize a few years ago. And white bulger "won" like 10 million lottery (if intimidating the winner into giving you the ticket is winning)
Posted on 11/14/25 at 5:23 pm to AncientTiger
The writer also forgot the 5% commission the owner of the terminals made selling and printing the tickets. Plus the bonus for selling the winning ticket.
There should be a law or regulation that prevents owners of lottery terminals from purchasing tickets?
Also, maybe Texas needs to implement sales restrictions when a terminal is spitting out way too many tickets of the same type to prevent such fraud? Maybe a limit 10 number sets per transaction.
There should be a law or regulation that prevents owners of lottery terminals from purchasing tickets?
Also, maybe Texas needs to implement sales restrictions when a terminal is spitting out way too many tickets of the same type to prevent such fraud? Maybe a limit 10 number sets per transaction.
Posted on 11/14/25 at 5:24 pm to AncientTiger
How old is this? There is a podcast by The Journal on a criminal organization that won a large TX lottto. It was an interesting podcast.
Posted on 11/14/25 at 5:44 pm to TeddyPadillac
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whoever you are quoting, is detarded, like yourself.
What is "detarded"?
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