Lottery Players Unite! Law Is On Our Side

Once again, the power of pooling takes center stage, along with a Powerball Lottery Jackpot of $163.2 Million dollars that was claimed in Indiana by Ohio residents. Pooling proves to be the smart way to play the lottery, but how did they do that? How did Cincinnati, Ohio residents win a lottery in Indiana?

Well, let's look at how Xzotto and The Lottery Alliance got its start by first looking at a little history of out-of-state winners. The explanation is simple enough. Winners of this Indiana Powerball jackpot live in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is a Mega Millions state. Time and time again lotteries throughout the states keep paying groups of people who pool their money in one jurisdiction, have a designated team member travel with funds into another state or even another country and purchase tickets for the group. When the group wins, the lottery pays - just like a slot machine... except with lot's more money more often than not.

The Lottery Alliance, Xzotto and the XzottoLotto Alliance were created as a result of a lottery jackpot win with similar circumstances to the huge jackpot win on January 17, 2009 in Indiana by Ohio residents. My brainstorm came in 1999. I was living in Houston, TX and the daily paper, The Houston Chronicle, ran an article about 11 Oklahoma farmers who won a Texas Lotto Jackpot. Yeah, it was big news and the headline read:

Texas Lottery Commission Harvests

$23 Million Cash Crop From Lotto Texas

For Winning Oklahoma Farmers

I thought to myself, how in the world does a group of Okies get away with taking cash from our Texas Lottery. The story went on to say that the farmers, who conducted business with a John Deere tractor representative from Texas on the morning of their jackpot win, had each contributed $10 to their pool in hope their John Deere rep would take their money and buy tickets for the farmers' group.

The farmers made the request of the John Deere tractor rep after he finished a presentation of new equipment and just before he began his journey back into the Lone Star State. The John Deer rep said that he had planned to buy his own tickets that day, anyway, when he returned home to Texas. So, instead, he told the farmers that he would take their $110, add $10 of his own money and buy 120 Texas Lotto chances after he crossed the border.

Bottom Line: The 11 farmers and the John Deere tractor rep won that $23 million Lotto Texas jackpot on the August 28, 1999.

Some Texas lottery enthusiasts were grumbling about the money going out of state, including me, but the Texas Lottery was taking those lemons and turning it into public relations lemonade, as illustrated in the excerpt below from the lottery's news release.

Texas Lottery Commissioner Tom Clowe of Waco said, "This country was built on the backs of struggling farmers, and I can't think of a more deserving group to become Texas' newest millionaires." Clowe presented the ceremonial winning check to the farmers at the Texas Lottery's headquarters in Austin.

The Lottery's news release did inject a bit of humor with the following quote: When asked if playing the Lottery was a better bet than farming, one of the winning farmers laughed and replied, "At least with the Lottery, you have a chance."

And even though I was upset, at the time, that some Oklahoma farmers had won MY Texas jackpot, it did plant the seed to what has become known as Xzotto and The Lottery Alliance, an allied group dedicated to helping its members win a share of lottery prize money every drawing.

Below, are some of the factors regarding the farmers' lottery jackpot win and the new Millionaires in Ohio that stimulated the eventual launch of our online lottery pooling system.

1. The farmers did not reside in the lottery jurisdiction in which they won a jackpot. Likewise, the Ohio residents who won the $163.2 Million Powerball jackpot claimed in Indiana do not live in the lottery jurisdiction from which they claimed their millions of dollars. This illustrates that you and I do not have to live in a jurisdiction to win a share of a lottery. You can join Xzotto and The Lottery Alliance no matter where you may happen to live in the world.
   
2. The state of Oklahoma, at the time of the farmers' jackpot win on August 28, 1999, did not have a state-sanctioned lottery. The state of Oklahoma has since started its own state lottery and has joined the multi-state game of Powerball. The Ohio group of winners live in a jurisdiction that does participate in the multi-state game of Mega Millions, however, they had somebody "travel" with their money into another jurisdiction to purchase the Powerball lottery tickets from an Indiana Lottery retailer. So, this makes it obvious that you can contribute to a pool in order to play in a lottery game even though you, personally, do not live in the jurisdiction in whose lottery you participate.
   
3. The lotteries do not seem to care who wins as long as the tickets were purchased according to the laws and statutes of the jurisdiction in which the lottery tickets are acquired. Lotteries do not care if you live in Indiana or India, London, Ontario or London, UK. It is simple and straightfoward. The tickets must be purchased by a person of legal age - usually 18 to 21 in most jurisdictions - and the chances must be obtained from an authorized lottery retailer that is sanctioned by the lottery jurisdiction from which the tickets are purchased. That's it.

The initial seed for Xzotto and The Lottery Alliance group play has now sprouted as a result of those 11 Oklahoma farmers. There have been many seasons pass since that harvest and there has been much toil and labor bringing us to this point. Now, however, it is time to spread the word and sow the seed to lottery enthusiasts around the world that the power of Xzotto, along with The Lottery Alliance will bring forth a replenishing harvest of green cash to benefit all the good works performed by the lotteries and promote the financial fruits of all our members...

There is tremendous abundance with this $225 billion worldwide lottery market, so get in the game.

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