Did Anyone See The Winning Pick 3 Number In New York Last Night?
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eerie indeed
eerie indeed
Another fact I find a bit eerie is that the construction of the Pentagon began on Sept 11, 1941.
...and the Yankees won last night 5-4 in the 11th inning. Go figure.
eerie indeed
Another fact I find a bit eerie is that the construction of the Pentagon began on Sept 11, 1941.
...and the Yankees won last night 5-4 in the 11th inning. Go figure.
Wow! I looked up the stories
Wow! I looked up the stories
911 drawn on 9/11 in New York lottery
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York City, a date often and reductively repeated as simply 9-11, the evening numbers drawn in the New York Lottery were 911.
?The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same protocols,? said Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. ?It?s just the way the numbers came up.?
Lottery officials were compiling a list Thursday morning of how many people played that number or the payout for winning, Hapeman said.
Geoff Cook, a clerk at an Albany-area convenience store, said that interest in playing 9-1-1 was high since Monday. ?I probably sold 20 to 25 tickets myself,? he told the Times Union of Albany.
Another Albany-area clerk, Farzad Khosravi, said, ?I think some people were disgusted with the idea of playing that number because it represents a black day in the history of America.?
He said some seemed reluctant about betting ? and possibly winning ? on the wings of tragedy.
The liability limit for the midday and evening draws is $10,000 in sales to ensure a maximum payout, Hapeman said.
The maximum for a ?straight? bet, or matching the exact sequence of winning numbers, is $500 for a $1 ticket. Bettors can also win $250 on a 50-cent ticket. The odds of winning on a straight bet is one-in-1,000.
On any given day, 7-10 sets of numbers are ?closed out,? she said. At some point on Tuesday, the 911 combination for both draws had reached its limit.
According to past winning numbers listed on the Lottery Web site, Wednesday was the first time in more than a year that the 911 combination came up.
The state lottery uses numbered balls circulating in a machine in a studio at the Lottery office. For the evening numbers game, three levers are pressed, and three balls are randomly brought up into tubes and then displayed on top.
?It?s the same protocol we use in each and every one of our drawings,? Hapeman said.
Members of the Springfield Fire Department hang onto a giant American flag before the start of a Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, on the grounds of the state Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Randy Squires)
Traders puzzled by eery 911 closing of S&P futures
Wed Sep 11, 5:32 PM ET
By KRISTINA ZURLA
CHICAGO - In an ironic twist, the September Standard & Poor's 500 futures contract closed Tuesday at 911.00 ? a day before the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
There was some buzz on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange stock index futures trading floor Wednesday about why that happened, but there were no reports of collusion or price-fixing.
"It was bizarre, it was strange, but it wasn't manufactured," said Richard Canlione, vice president of institutional financial futures at Salomon Smith Barney. "It was just the rules of coincidence ... That's just where the market was."
"It just proves the market God was with us, remembering the day, too," said one CME trader.
The start of trading was delayed Wednesday in honor of those killed in the attacks.
Market players noted prices were already moving higher throughout Tuesday after two prior up days, so it wasn't as if an abrupt change in direction took place to achieve the numerical equivalent of Sept. 11.
Some thought perhaps suspicious activity could have taken place, but most brushed it off as a "patriotic rally" and didn't see the harm in it.
"I'm always kinda paranoid, and I find the fact that we settled there kind of eerie, but I don't think we should dwell on it or read too much into it," said Tim Haefke, a stock index futures trader and president of Top-Notch Trading.
The futures contract is an obligation to buy or sell a basket of stocks composing the Standard & Poor's stock index at a set date for a fixed price.
(EDITORS: Kristina Zurla is a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires)
Wow! I looked up the stories
911 drawn on 9/11 in New York lottery
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York City, a date often and reductively repeated as simply 9-11, the evening numbers drawn in the New York Lottery were 911.
?The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same protocols,? said Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. ?It?s just the way the numbers came up.?
Lottery officials were compiling a list Thursday morning of how many people played that number or the payout for winning, Hapeman said.
Geoff Cook, a clerk at an Albany-area convenience store, said that interest in playing 9-1-1 was high since Monday. ?I probably sold 20 to 25 tickets myself,? he told the Times Union of Albany.
Another Albany-area clerk, Farzad Khosravi, said, ?I think some people were disgusted with the idea of playing that number because it represents a black day in the history of America.?
He said some seemed reluctant about betting ? and possibly winning ? on the wings of tragedy.
The liability limit for the midday and evening draws is $10,000 in sales to ensure a maximum payout, Hapeman said.
The maximum for a ?straight? bet, or matching the exact sequence of winning numbers, is $500 for a $1 ticket. Bettors can also win $250 on a 50-cent ticket. The odds of winning on a straight bet is one-in-1,000.
On any given day, 7-10 sets of numbers are ?closed out,? she said. At some point on Tuesday, the 911 combination for both draws had reached its limit.
According to past winning numbers listed on the Lottery Web site, Wednesday was the first time in more than a year that the 911 combination came up.
The state lottery uses numbered balls circulating in a machine in a studio at the Lottery office. For the evening numbers game, three levers are pressed, and three balls are randomly brought up into tubes and then displayed on top.
?It?s the same protocol we use in each and every one of our drawings,? Hapeman said.
Members of the Springfield Fire Department hang onto a giant American flag before the start of a Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, on the grounds of the state Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Randy Squires)
Traders puzzled by eery 911 closing of S&P futures
Wed Sep 11, 5:32 PM ET
By KRISTINA ZURLA
CHICAGO - In an ironic twist, the September Standard & Poor's 500 futures contract closed Tuesday at 911.00 ? a day before the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
There was some buzz on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange stock index futures trading floor Wednesday about why that happened, but there were no reports of collusion or price-fixing.
"It was bizarre, it was strange, but it wasn't manufactured," said Richard Canlione, vice president of institutional financial futures at Salomon Smith Barney. "It was just the rules of coincidence ... That's just where the market was."
"It just proves the market God was with us, remembering the day, too," said one CME trader.
The start of trading was delayed Wednesday in honor of those killed in the attacks.
Market players noted prices were already moving higher throughout Tuesday after two prior up days, so it wasn't as if an abrupt change in direction took place to achieve the numerical equivalent of Sept. 11.
Some thought perhaps suspicious activity could have taken place, but most brushed it off as a "patriotic rally" and didn't see the harm in it.
"I'm always kinda paranoid, and I find the fact that we settled there kind of eerie, but I don't think we should dwell on it or read too much into it," said Tim Haefke, a stock index futures trader and president of Top-Notch Trading.
The futures contract is an obligation to buy or sell a basket of stocks composing the Standard & Poor's stock index at a set date for a fixed price.
(EDITORS: Kristina Zurla is a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires)
Re: Wow! I looked up the stories
Re: Wow! I looked up the stories
I always wonder just how low they could go with the payout before people would stop playing. What a goldmine.
There isn't a bet to be found in a casino with a 50 cent payout on a dollar bet. Even the tightest slots in town pay out like 85 cents for a dollar.
Re: Wow! I looked up the stories
A 500-1 payout on a 1000-1 shot.Terryray said:
I always wonder just how low they could go with the payout before people would stop playing. What a goldmine.
There isn't a bet to be found in a casino with a 50 cent payout on a dollar bet. Even the tightest slots in town pay out like 85 cents for a dollar.
That is really weird! But this is even more weird, i had to take a piss last nite at 9 and 11. What does all this mean?
According to today's NY Post about 15,000 hit that lottery & I heard yesterday that each winner received about $500.
