1.5 Billion

“Dirk Diggler” sounds like a good name. Especially when your able to afford to hit the club every night for the rest of your life.

Champphilly won it already. Sorry 😂😂

Well the cash option is "only" $746 million. Then if you live in a state that taxes lottery winnings, figure your federal plus state tax bite will be about 45% so your $1.5 billion gets whittled down to about $410 million. Still a pretty nice chunk-a-change. One of the very few good things about my state, New Jersey, is that you may choose to remain anonymous, however I think it would be pretty hard to keep something like that a secret. But who cares because $410 million (at least in my book) qualifies as "fuck you money" and if I had it there are plenty of people to whom I would just say "fuck you". Some of them I fucking HOPE they come crawling out of the woodwork, just so I can tell them "fuck you". In fact, I would send them a Christmas card with pictures of my mansion and my yacht, and inside it would say "Fuck You, You Fuckin' Fuck, and Fuck Your Whole Fuckin' Family"!

Luckily I don't give a crap about pretty much my entire family.. So if i hit the jackpot a few people (a couple friends and a couple relatives) will get a good amount of money and anyone else can kiss my … But it would kale this hobby or ours here radically different.. Would it still be worth going to clubs? Find a sugar baby instead? Who knows. Maybe it would be like Sheen said about why he hire escorts. “I dont pay them to sleep with me.. I pay them to go home in the morning” Or something like that A couple hundred million is going to effect ones life in a lot of ways.

True lottery story Thirty years ago I was married to my first wife and the lottery got to be some large amount unheard of in those days, and my sweetheart said honey if we win we could help your family and my family send all of our cousins to college and buy our parents nice houses, I said sweetheart that’s a great idea, but I thought to myself, fuck that, I’m not telling you if I win. Needless to say we didn’t win.

If I win Bomi from the Korean girl group Girl Crush is going to have a new Sugar Daddy. She is a divine gift to mankind and I love her.

What's the old saying? Lotteries are a tax on people bad at math. 1.5 billion in grand prize. The lottery pays out around 50% for all winning tickets combined, so waaay over 3 billion collected from dreamers. Odds of winning: around 1 in 292.2 million. By comparison, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are less than 1 in 1 million and the odds of being attacked and killed by a shark are around 1 in 4.3 million. But, yeah, I grabbed a quick pick while in line at the liquor store. Hope I don't get struck by lightning while being attacked by a shark this weekend.

Two VIP 3somes each day for the rest of my life.

Lone_Wolf... yeahhhh buddy. If I win I'll set up a production company in Korea. I'll sponsor any girl group as long as they're hot and suck me off. I don't care if they can sing or sell records.

If I had 1.5 billion I'd bring like 5 million to a club in one's and make it monsoon lulz

Shailynn: "Aye, I just went through my last hundred....could you maybe cover my next dance?"

You are more likely to be struck by lightning TWICE than to win a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot. Although when the jackpot gets as absurdly huge as this you almost have to play. I have. If one lives in a state which identifies the winner, you have a few options. 1) change your state of residence and set up in a state which allows privacy - you're going to have to move anyway when all your friends and family come around looking for a handout 2) stay in the state and change your name, if your residence is more important to you 3) set up a blind trust to collect the winnings - you're going to need an estate lawyer, anyway Texas and Florida winners are so blessed that they live in a state with no personal income taxes. NYC winners who have complete taxes greater than 50% - well, you asked for it.

Let's see! Mmmmmmm.. OK. If I netted out $410 million, and divorced my wife, I would net $205 million and could spend $1,000,000 in the clubs every year without touching the principal....🤯 Gotta go out and buy that ticket toute suite!😆

What I don't get is people that win huge sums of money and they carry on in their jobs. FFS why play it if winning big isn't going to change your life?

^Some people are happy with their lives. A lot of lottery winners ruin their lives by changing them. If we hit it, we retire, but 10 years ago we wouldn't have.

Florida Lottery has paid for 3 of my kids’ college educations through Florida Bright Futures scholarships. So it really is people bad at math paying for the education of kids who are good at math.

I myself was a beneficiary of the Florida Bright Futures scholarship, so I'm all for it. I'll buy a few quick picks at the gas station when it gets up high like this, but I'm not a regular player. I've probably lost more in coins in the sofa than I've spent on lotto tickets in my lifetime. But it's not just for people who are bad at math. Most people loose at Casino games too. And at betting sports. People play/bet because there is entertainment value. I knew a stripper who literally bought scratch offs every fucking day. She had regulars who would buy them for her and she'd have a fucking blast scratching em off at the club. A guy would give her a dozen tickets and she'd be fucking giddy for 30 minutes. It didn't matter if she won $2 or $2000, she still enjoyed the shit out of the time she spent scratching them. It's not how I choose to spend my entertainment dollars, but who am I to judge. I'm sure plenty of people question the wisdom in the dollars I've spent on strippers, bourbon, travel, cars, various electronic gadgets, etc.

if I win I’ll buy a set of wide white wall tires for my POS 41 Cadillac. and splurge with a car wash for my bad ass prius.

Let's make a pact that, if any of us wins, we'll offer blah at least $2K for extras and see what really happens.

What is the other option besides cash so you get the full 1.5billion? Why would anyone want to take the cash only option if it’s only 750 million and you have to pay taxes on top of it?

You are going to have to pay taxes either way whether you lump-sum or take 30 payments. If you don't take lump-sum, it gets paid as an annuity over 29 years. That means you would get like 30 million as a first payment and then like 180 million as a final payment 29 years from now. It is not 30 equal payments. Bird in hand and all that.

With $410 million I'd still only spend about $200 per clubbing trip, but I'd be able to hit up more clubs

$200 per clubbing trip? Remember the dude that brought half a mil to the club only to have it stolen from his truck? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lotto-winner-robbed-at-strip-club/

One winning ticket sold in California.