Hitting the jackpot at Potsdamer Platz just doesn't feel like hitting the jackpot.
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It's actually 1.53 times more likely than hitting the jackpot.
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It seriously does feel like hitting the jackpot every time this happens!
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Well, it seems they want to do some good after hitting the jackpot.
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The selection of San Francisco was essentially hitting the jackpot for net neutrality advocates.
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Landing a job with good pay and benefits can feel like hitting the jackpot these days.
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Now time for a reality check: Your odds of hitting the jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338.
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Why play solo, when your odds of hitting the jackpot are a measly 1 in 302,575,350?
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After hitting the jackpot, Sheikh approached the local police for protection, fearing that he could be attacked.
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For many of the show's fans, seeing an unaired episode ahead of time is like hitting the jackpot.
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"Dreams From Yesterday" is the sound of a young kid hitting the jackpot, only to find himself in limbo.
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We make risky decisions and then cry "unfair" when our gamble doesn't turn out with us hitting the jackpot.
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The sound of dozens of shackles clinking together echoed in the cavernous courtroom, like a Vegas slot machine hitting the jackpot.
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And while Trump was busy hitting the jackpot, most opinion writers were dogging him for missing out on the four bucks.
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Discovering that mutation was like hitting the jackpot for Mr. Fenstermacher, said Dr. Suresh Nair, an oncologist with Lehigh Valley Health Network.
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The latest Mega Millions winner is likely still in shock: The odds of hitting the jackpot are 1 in about 302 million.
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The chips seem to be falling into place for casino stocks, but investors keen on hitting the jackpot may need to take a step back.
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But it's quite possible that lotteries are taking advantage of psychological biases like a common tendency to overestimate the slim odds of hitting the jackpot.
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An Oregon man who has twice overcome cancer now has a new reason to boast of hitting the jackpot — 4.6 million reasons, to be exact.
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Sure, they're often bestowed upon those who are "too difficult to shop for," but in our world getting one is a bit like hitting the jackpot.
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I'd often take their name, put in Mogilevich in Google, and it was like hitting the jackpot on a slot machine, time after time after time.
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We would like to comfort you by pointing out that the odds of hitting the jackpot are one in 2525 million, which are really, really bad odds.
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It's the reason people play slot machines; they don't win money each time — the thrill of hitting the jackpot is way more exciting than the money itself.
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And while the odds are stacked against hitting the jackpot — your chance is 1 in about 302 million — at some point, someone will get really, really lucky.
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If you have dreams of hitting the jackpot in the next Mega Millions or Powerball drawing, remember that a big slice of what the lottery giveth, the taxman taketh away.
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If you have dreams of hitting the jackpot in the next Powerball or Mega Millions drawing, remember that a big slice of what the lottery giveth, the taxman taketh away.
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And the number of balls and Mega Balls in the game changed significantly, increasing the player's chances of winning secondary prizes even while it decreased those of hitting the jackpot.
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So if you use pyrotechnics to celebrate winning the lottery, please know that your odds of dying from those fireworks are 857 times greater than hitting the jackpot you just won.
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Funds including Marshall Wace have waited months for Carillion's value to fall, finally hitting the jackpot when the support services and construction company's stock slid almost 63 percent between Friday's close and Wednesday.
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The fiercely contested 2016 U.S. election is set to become the most bet-upon political event in history as gamblers pour millions of dollars into bookmaking platforms in the hope of hitting the jackpot.
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Pogba&aposs move from Italy to Manchester in August 2000, after he burnished his star credentials in France&aposs run that summer to the final of the European Championship, was like hitting the jackpot for Torcy.
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A phone call with U.S. president used to be like hitting the jackpot for world leaders but Trump had turned that idea on its head, said Jonathan Eyal, the international director of the Royal United Services Institute.
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After more than two months of twice-weekly drawings with no one hitting the jackpot, a single ticket purchased in the Tar Heel State matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing to nab the $344.6 million top prize.
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Hitting the jackpot can open a world of possibilities for lottery winners, who may finally be able to buy a new house, find a new job they are passionate about, or create an organization focused on a cause they care for.
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I went in on my own, and happily haunted the stacks for the better part of an hour before hitting the jackpot: a gorgeous, mint copy of Svart Records' 2010 double LP pressing of Reverend Bizarre's classic debut, In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend.
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But Gladys perceived Arty in terms of his pre-divorce finances and circumstances, even though she'd visited Arty at his Union City apartment, which had once belonged to his parents; and surely she understood that being a public-school vice-principal wasn't exactly hitting the jackpot.
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The odds of hitting the jackpot by matching all six numbers correctly are one-in-302.6 million, but the odds of turning a Mega Millions ticket into a winner of any kind, including a $2 prize simply for matching the "Mega ball," are a more down-to-earth one-in-24.
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Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonBen Shapiro: No prominent GOP figure ever questioned Obama's legitimacy The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump tries to reassure voters on economy 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE, inheriting the Reagan capital markets and hitting the jackpot with the dot.
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The odds of hitting the jackpot by matching all six numbers correctly are an astronomical one in 302.6 million, but the odds of turning a Mega Millions ticket into a winner of any kind, including a $2 prize simply for matching the "Mega ball," are a more down-to-earth one in 24.
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In October 2015, Betway paid out €17,879,645 ($20,062,600, £13,209,300) to Jon Heywood (UK) for hitting the jackpot on Microgaming's Mega Moolah slot while playing at Betway. This has been verified by Guinness World Record, as the largest ever jackpot payout in an online slot machine.
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Fromson, Brett Duval. Hitting the Jackpot: The inside Story of the Richest Indian Tribe in History. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2003. Print. pp. 25-26. In 1975, Hayward met with Thomas Tureen, the head of the Coalition of Eastern Native Americans (CENA), who helped him initiate a land claim on his family's behalf.
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Of course, our gambler decides to take the best out of the situation and, pretending to be Radoslav, signs a contract with the club from Sofia. Now both brothers are in Sofia. Radoslav keeps on searching for his Elena without the slightest suspicion of his brother’s intrigues. But Radosvet is the one hitting the jackpot, meeting Elena.
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Oh Song- kyung (Jung Ryeo-won) is a well-organized 28-year-old bank teller. She meticulously has a plan for everything, including getting married through a dating agency. Taekwondo master Kang Dong-joo's (Uhm Tae-woong) biggest pleasure is buying lottery tickets in hopes of one day hitting the jackpot. In reality, however, he's an incompetent young man who barely makes ends meet and mooches off his younger brother (Park Ki-woong).
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Ollie gets Stan back for drinking his half of the soda by leaving him to pay the check. Realizing he does not have enough and that he has nothing to lose, Stan deposits a coin in a slot machine in the soda shop and ends up hitting the jackpot. With excess money in hand, the boys rent a rowing boat with the ladies, which results in an all-out battle-royal with other boaters on the lake, with various canoes getting overturned. Eventually all the people who have fallen into the water clamber into Stan and Ollie's boat, which causes it to sink.
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In the early 1930s, Roy Rene was one of the most popular stage comics in Australia. Bert Bailey and George Wallace had managed to transfer their on-stage popularity to the screen in a series of films, so Ken G. Hall thought he would try to do the same for Rene. Hall later wrote: > The luck we'd had with our first three films all hitting the jackpot was > phenomenal. The odds against getting a second winner after The Selection > were high in those still-tough times; but to bring in the third filled our > cups to overflowing – and scared us a bit at the same time.
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Chuck Greene joins the reality pay-per-view gameshow "Terror is Reality" to get money for his daughter's Zombrex. (Zombrex being a medicine which prevents infected humans from turning into zombies as long as it is taken once daily.) Terror is Reality (TiR) is hosted by Tyrone King (TK). Players compete with players all over the world online, and earn money for their character at the same time. The show consists of three minigames, including "Zomboni" (driving a car that makes zombie juice and players have to shoot the juice to the target to get points), "Bounty Hunter" (players snipe zombies and they can earn extra points by hitting the jackpot), "Stand Up Zomedy" (players put flowers, sticks, and dresses on the zombie, earn more points by getting all three of items in one zombie), and so on.
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73-91; Jeff Benedict, Without Reservation: How a Controversial Indian Tribe Rose to Power and Built the World's Largest Casino, Harper Books, 2001; Brett Duval Fromson, Hitting the Jackpot: The Inside Story of the Richest Indian Tribe in History, Grove Press, 2004. In 1976, the Pequots filed suit with the assistance of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) and the Indian Rights Association against landowners and residents of North Stonington to get their land, which the Pequots claimed had been illegally sold in 1856 by the State of Connecticut, and they settled after seven years. The Connecticut Legislature passed legislation to petition the federal government to grant tribal recognition to the Mashantucket Pequots, and the "Mashantucket Pequot Indian Land Claims Settlement Act" was enacted by Congress and signed by President Ronald Reagan on Oct. 18, 1983.
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2006, Tattersall's Limited. , page 116 The will set of the benefits to be inherited by all descendants of the initial trustees. The updated list kept to be a well protected secrecy and was only published at the verge of floating share of the Tatts Group."Hitting the jackpot" by Malcolm Maiden, June 3, 2005 - with a web link to "Full list: Tattersall's beneficiaries" (visited 2017-01-25, source unavailable and no archive found 2018-09-23)Transcript from PM "Tattersall's stock market listing one step closer" Thursday, 28 April, 2005 18:51:10, Reporter: Neal Woolrich (visited 2018-09-23)The Sydney Morning Herald "Tattersall's rich list revealed" 2 June 2005 — 3:29pm (visited 2018-09-23)The Age "Wealth is relative for once-secret clan" 3 June 2005 — 10:37am (visited 2018-09-23) There is a statue of AdamsAustralian Postal History & Social Philately, GEORGE ADAMS, PUBLICAN, LOTTERY PROMOTER, TATTERSALL’S CLUB {archived by Pandora (The National Library of Australia)} (visited 23.09.
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