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Mega Millions lottery opens new horizons for gamblers of Texas, as well as other US states
Mega Millions lottery strikes USA, huge jackpot ahead
Mega Millions lottery opens new horizons for gamblers of Texas, as well as other US states. Starting from June 22, players can win up to one million dollars without even hitting the jackpot, TxLottery.org said Tuesday. According to Reagan Greer, Texas Lottery Commission Executive Director, the new lottery game prizes have grown immensely. The overall odds constituting 1 in 40, while jackpot odds are 1 in 175,700,000.
It’s necessary to say that all the revenue being raised from Mega Millions ticket sales in Texas goes to the Foundation School Fund to support Texas education, assured Mr. Greer. In the meantime, it has recently been announced that Mega Millions lottery jackpot could hit $500,000,000, as California was added among other states. The jackpot started growing rapidly, as ticket sales rose. According to Tuesday’s estimates, the Mega Millions jackpot jumped to $31 million dollars. California became the 12th state in the game. Texas is expected to raise about $67 million to its budget for the remaining term of Fiscal Year 2005. Today Mega Millions lottery is played in California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington. As Tuesday’s game found no matches of all the five numbers, Friday’s prize reached $42 million. GamblingGates.com carried out a brief research on online demand of new lottery information, namely Mega Millions. According GamblingGates.com online research on the lottery tickets demand the biggest demand and interest in Mega Millions is in Texas, California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio and Michigan respectively. Here’s the scheme of interest (the total demand among the above mentioned states is taken as 100 %)Texas lottery
Nearly 20%
California lottery
18%
Florida lottery
12%
Pennsylvania lottery
10%
Illinois lottery
10%
New Jersey lottery
9%
Virginia lottery
9%
Ohio lottery
8%
Michigan lottery
4%
The percentage is of course approximate and relational. However, the information may be taken into consideration by Mega Millions office to initiate a scaled marketing research on other states to be included.
