lottery fantasies
from news today:
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TORONTO -- Tze-Lam Chan will be doing Tuesday morning what every worker dreams of: calling his boss to tell him he's quitting after winning the $26.8-million jackpot in the Super 7 lottery.
Chan and his wife, Mei-Ling Chan, were at the Ontario Lottery Corp. office in downtown Toronto on Monday afternoon to be presented with a cheque for $26,879,379 -- the third-largest jackpot from a single ticket in Canadian history."
So...the question...what would you do? Here is my immediate list.
1. Quit job.
2. Make feature length film and enter it into festivals. (ballpark 2 million)
3. Buy a house/car etc in Squamish, B.C (around 8 million)
4. Become a globetrotting tournament poker player (every WPT event etc)
5. Every month a different friend/family member would be given the interest I earn from the moolah in my bank.
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TORONTO -- Tze-Lam Chan will be doing Tuesday morning what every worker dreams of: calling his boss to tell him he's quitting after winning the $26.8-million jackpot in the Super 7 lottery.
Chan and his wife, Mei-Ling Chan, were at the Ontario Lottery Corp. office in downtown Toronto on Monday afternoon to be presented with a cheque for $26,879,379 -- the third-largest jackpot from a single ticket in Canadian history."
So...the question...what would you do? Here is my immediate list.
1. Quit job.
2. Make feature length film and enter it into festivals. (ballpark 2 million)
3. Buy a house/car etc in Squamish, B.C (around 8 million)
4. Become a globetrotting tournament poker player (every WPT event etc)
5. Every month a different friend/family member would be given the interest I earn from the moolah in my bank.
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2. book extended trips to everywhere I have wanted to go
3. secure nice, but relatively modest homes (3 or 4) in my favourite places from my travels
4. build a home studio and get some awesome musical gear
2. buy up all my debt (house, car etc)
3. sell all my old junk (house, car etc) in a 'garage sale' ("yeah, the car is $2.50")
4. spend
2. Get a really nice house built, and buy another house or 2 in my favorite places.
3. Travel all over the place while my house is being built
4. Buy many ridiculously overpriced vehicles that I'll probably only drive once or twice a year.
does anyb0dy know how much the guy spent on lotto tickets?
2. Buy the pokerforum.ca domain
3. Buy a very nice (but not insane) house and a Subaru Impreza WRX STi. Take up auto rally racing, and hire a co-driver for both the rallies and my day-to-day driving. "4 right, into 3 left, to stop. Past stop sign into 2 left, into 6 crest 100, into 2 right, into Loblaw's, to stop."
4. Buy one more Lotto ticket... "Somebody's got to win!"
5. Learn to fly a plane, buy a nice plane, and hire pilots to be available 24/7 to fly the plane for me if I didn't feel like flying it myself.
6. PokerForum.ca member tourney. $10+$1 NLHE, $10,000 added. All_aces will win this tournament.
7. Buy my friends and family cool stuff. Cars and shirts with dollar signs all around.
8. Play poker. A lot.
9. Buy a gold bar for no reason whatsoever.
10. Invest the remaining money unbelievably carefully.
ScottyZ
all 14 dollars' worth
1. Pay off my student Loans (lol)
2. Use $4 million to attract other corporate partners for an MLS (Major League Soccer) team in Toronto. Estimated total cost is $11 million.
3. Use $1 million to set-up a state of the Art Boxing Club/Gym in Toronto.
5. Purchase commercial property in Niagara Falls, Cancun, Brazil, and Cuba - (12 million)
6. Purchase Custom made Harley's for 10 of my closest friends.
7. Purchase annuaties for family and friends ($2 Million)
8. Vacations to the following countries - Costa Rica, Brazil, South Africa, Spain, Amsterdam, Italy, Ireland, China, and India.
9. Use $2 million as my poker war chest
10. And Finally purchase a McDonalds Two cheese burger combo for $4.27
Oh, did I say that out loud? lol
Probably world travel for a year or two to consider my options.
Less than $27 million I'd guess.
2. Order 20,000 custom poker chips with full security features.
3. Rent large dingy basement in downtown T.O.
4. Open Poker room in said basement... no rake!!
5. Learn to talk in bad russian accent!!
6. Convince CPT to hold event here... (money talks)
7. Get TSN to cover event... (see above)
8. Win said event... (ok... we're slipping into extreme fantasy mode... but I didn't start this thread)
9. Announce $10,000 bounty for whoever knocks Phil H. out of any televised tourney... (who doesn't love his hissy fits!)
10. Enjoy Life!!!
2) Tell employer I'm taking two weeks vacation. After all, let's not get ridiculous, right?
3) Do the expected stuff, like travel, set up my family, pay for my friends to high roller it for awhile.
4) Pay off all debts, buy new home (nothing extravagant).
5) Play in every WSOP event that Phil H enters so that I can raise him into hysterics.
Now that is a great idea! Can you imagine wheeling some buddies into vegas with the bankroll the lotto would afford you? You'd make that goof on THE CASINO (jeff whathisface and his brother and his fiance) look like a chump. And you would hopefully have friends for life.
Go to the cage at Bellagio with my pals;
First guy steps up and says, "Give me $10.000.00 please. Hand over cash;
Repeat about a dozen times;
Go play
Of course, while the guys are doing their thing the ladies have taken over the spa.