Mega Millions

[MacDice]

Since we all have purchased tickets and know we are going to win mega millions...what is the first card you will purchase with your winnings?

[Stonepony]

I'll be tracking down the T206 Mathewson proof and paying...whatever

[Fred]

I'm going to be original. I want a T206 Wagner. I want the one that Bill trimmed! It'll be part of hobby lore forever....

[Bliggity]

Originally Posted by MacDice

Since we all have purchased tickets and know we are going to win mega millions...what is the first card you will purchase with your winnings?

If you bought Mega Millions tickets, you bought the wrong tickets!

[philliesfan]

Probably a T3 Out At Third card. Its nobody special but the colors are beautiful.........It would be my first T3 card. Then work on the rest of the set and start and finish a T206 set and then buy everything unopened that Steve has pre 1980.
Robert

[vintagetoppsguy]

We pooled our money together at work and bought 235 tickets. I don't expect to win, but at $10 it's worth a shot.

[DHogan]

The odds of winning are 1 in 292 million. I bought 5 tickets. Like P.T. Barnum said. "There's a sucker born every minute".

[Jobu]

I would buy a green T206 Cobb, though Powerball had better hurry up and do the drawing -- with the way prices are going, if it takes too long to get paid I think the jackpot might not be enough to cover a decent card.

[philliesfan]

Yeah I ran a pool at my old job. We came close at whichever lottery it was at the time. If I remember correctly, we had four out of five numbers or five out of six numbers and the "extra" ball was only one digit away from ours. We ended up with sixty five dollars each instead of a million each. UGH!
Robert

[atx840]

The T206 Plank white printers scrap and the Wagner proof strip.

[7nohitter]

'88 Donruss Carmelo Martinez for me!

[rdwyer]

I played 1000's of tickets here, and lost big time.

http://graphics.latimes.com/powerball-simulator/

[Sean1125]

I put my $2 in.

I believe my odds are better to be struck by lightning, twice and survive both times.

[ksabet]

Originally Posted by Fred

I'm going to be original. I want a T206 Wagner. I want the one that Bill trimmed! It'll be part of hobby lore forever....

Good luck, Ken Kendrick has said he will never sell it.

[sycks22]

I told my wife "I secured our financial future" and after telling her I did that with 3 powerball tickets she wasn't impressed

[bbcardzman]

The T206 O'Hara STL followed by every Old Judge St. Louis Whites cards I can get - BE READY - You know who you are!

[packs]

You miss 100 % of the shots you don't take.

I've got $4 invested tonight.

[BBSD]

Originally Posted by Bliggity

If you bought Mega Millions tickets, you bought the wrong tickets!

Absolutely Hilarious!

[insidethewrapper]

Buy the entire next Robert Edwards Auction.

With about $ 500 million after taxes, I could draw interest at 2% and get over $27,000 /day in interest. I think I could have a pretty nice collection with that cash flow.

[Rookiemonster]

I would buy up as many 1952 mantles and set them all on Fire . Then dump the remains in the harbor. But I would keep one copy of my own . MUhahahah MUhahahah 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍🔥🔥👍⚾️

[rdwyer]

Sounds right to me.

[Stonepony]

Originally Posted by rdwyer

Sounds right to me.

Funny!!

[pokerplyr80]

I think I'd pick up the entire run of Mantles up on Memory Lane

[Jeff1970Red]

Book a flight for Atlantic City to break my National cherry...

[Jewish-collector]

What would happen if this lottery winner bid & won every single lot in every single catalog auction on the face of the earth for the next decade or longer ?

[EvilKing00]

Im buying a balt news ruth, dont tell the wife

[jefferyepayne]

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math ...

jeff

[quinnsryche]

Originally Posted by Rookiemonster

I would buy up as many 1952 mantles and set them all on Fire . Then dump the remains in the harbor. But I would keep one copy of my own . MUhahahah MUhahahah 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍🔥🔥👍⚾️

That's F****ING hilarious!!! I love it and I hope you win and do it!

[HercDriver]

I was going to buy a ticket, but I saw the 22 oz bombers of the NxS IPA, which is a collaboration from Stone Brewing and Sierra Nevada. At $9/bottle, it seemed smarter to buy two bottles of that, instead of lottery tickets. It's pretty tasty...

[Yoda]

A Texas Tommy Joe Jackson, a card I have lusted after forever. What were those odds again?

[clydepepper]

Hey, If I win, every board member gets a buck!
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[1952boyntoncollector]

If I win I will actually look at Deans Cards listings on ebay ....

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

If I win I will actually look at Deans Cards listings on ebay ....

Now that's funny.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by jefferyepayne

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked math ...

jeff

Did you run an expected value count on this drawing? Because EV[$2] > $2 this time, even considering the possibility of multiple winners, lump sum discount, and federal income tax... ;-)

[Iron Horse]

if i win i would buy the first 10 board members who PM me a 52 Topps Mantle PSA 5
**this is if i win at least 50 million** lol
Then i would buy a nice 6 or 7 for me

[Bliggity]

So...which one of you lucky bastards hit your numbers?

ETA: I guess none of us!

[EvilKing00]

Originally Posted by Bliggity

So...which one of you lucky bastards hit your numbers?

ETA: I guess none of us!

I spent $20.00 and got 1 damn number, lmao

[Eric72]

The odds of winning are 1 in 292 million.

So, in theory, someone could have played every possible combination of numbers last night and walked away hundreds of million dollars richer.

Oh well, hindsight is always 20/20, I guess.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Eric72

So, in theory, someone could have played every possible combination of numbers last night and walked away hundreds of million dollars richer.

Oh well, hindsight is always 20/20, I guess.

Yeah there was an article saying that due to the payout amount that math wise buy a powerball ticket puts the odds in your favor

now that powerball is at 1.3 billion , if I won not only would I look at Deans Card listings but I would actually considering buying some cards..

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Eric72

So, in theory, someone could have played every possible combination of numbers last night and walked away hundreds of million dollars richer.

Oh well, hindsight is always 20/20, I guess.

Tickets are $2, and after taxes and adjusting payout to present value you end up poorer I think.

[Vegas-guy]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Tickets are $2, and after taxes and adjusting payout to present value you end up poorer I think.

+1 not to mention more than one person could win so you might be splitting it.

[Sean1125]

It would cost about 600m to buyout every combination, the prize would need to be above 1.6b to make money post tax.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Sean1125

It would cost about 600m to buyout every combination, the prize would need to be above 1.6b to make money post tax.

well you do get to writeoff your losses on that 600m buy in....I not an accountant and I will defer that you cant make money buying all the combinations but it sounds like you are getting close...maybe if no winners next few weeks!....

man who will want to play powerball after someone has won when the jackpot is 'only' 10 million.....I feel bad for that poor winner of 10 million..

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Did you run an expected value count on this drawing? Because EV[$2] > $2 this time, even considering the possibility of multiple winners, lump sum discount, and federal income tax... ;-)

Yeah, how'd that all work out for you?

jeff

[billyb]

I would buy up every Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb and Lajoie, or any of the other high 6 or 7 digit cards I could get, for the next year or two, then have a raffle at $100 a ticket for each and every card I had bought, one at a time.

[Joshchisox08]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

If I win I will actually look at Deans Cards listings on ebay ....

If I won I'd open my own eBay store with inventory and purposely go against Dean's cards calling them out in my description.

[bwbc917]

I'd stay true to my collecting goals and go for a Just So Tobacco. I'd also never again chicken out on a Breisch-Williams auction because of price.

[ajenks3378]

I would buy the Cleveland Indians...Finally an owner with money!!!
Andy

[Rich Klein]

BTW IIRC -- Mega Millions is over 100 mill -- so not a bad consolation prize

Well, after creating a trust -- I would then buy -- well one case each forever of all the new stuff to have play time and buy a few older cards I liked

Rich

[packs]

My favorite thing to hear at work is "pay off my student loans." No way. I'll let those leeches chase me forever and in the end I'll never have paid off the entire amount, even with my billion dollars.