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Fourteen Ohio City workers won last Friday’s $207 million dollar Mega Millions jackpot. The group has been pooling money twice per week for the past five years to buy Mega Millions Lottery tickets and their perseverance has paid off in a big way.

Here’s a tip, next time there’s a big lotto jackpot, pool your resources with a group of people. Better yet, don’t wait until there’s a big jackpot. Start a pool with your friends, co-workers or family now. You never know. You’ve probably been playing the lottery for decades and losing so even if your pool takes five years before you win a big jackpot it’s better than going 20 years playing and never winning a dime.

With the number of big jackpot wins by lotto pools over the years it’s tempting to dismiss suggestions that pooling your money to buy more tickets doesn’t increase your chances. You know how they like to say only one set of numbers can win? Well that’s true, but if you have 100 sets of numbers thats 100 chances at matching the winning set which, obviously is a lot better than 1 chance of matching the winning set.

If you can get 10 people to put $10 to buy $100 in tickets give it a shot. Of course 100 tickets isn’t much and you can end up not winning anything; but at least that’s only $10 each of you is throwing down the drain as opposed to you taking a chance on your own spending $100 in lotto tickets.

Must feel pretty damn good to be one of those Ohio city workers right about now.

If anyone wants to start a lotto pool get a hold of me.