Man, this thread made me laugh so hard. But in all seriousness, I'd totally hit that game up. Think of all the 14 year olds playing 1/2 with their allowance.
Choose small contiguous states (think New England, not the Southwest) so you don't have to travel much, and hire people to sell tickets door to door. Telemarketing is passe. Deliver the payouts to the winner in the form of gigantic checks - at least 5 feet by 3 feet, but bigger if possible. Make them try to actually cash the enormous checks.
These things should help your lottery run smoothly. A celebrity spokesperson never hurt either. Start small, like with a local weatherman or morning DJ from your favorite oldies station, then move up to big stars like that guy who fell off his motorcycle and hit his head and went all crazy or the guy who played Charlie Chaplin and then went into rehab about 40 times. I can't remember their names, but they are really famous and they should lend an air of legitimacy to your multistate lottery. Women in bikinis will do if you can't get big stars...just make sure they are passable looking. No fatties. Unless you're in the Midwest, then you might not have a choice.
if this ever actually happens (which it won't) it will be robbed within days. some hooded guy with a BB gun will come in, make this 17 year old piss his pants, take the $5.75 profit he made through raking his friends' $25 NL game, shoot him, tie up his dad, f his mom, and leave.
OP should be 22 yo now. I wonder how it turned out. In my city some 20 yo's tried establishing poker rooms with 1/2 and 2/5 NL games and were shortly taken over by the mafia. The kids claimed they were "merged"... right, for a 100-0% profit sharing. There is something called "protection", where you give all of your profits to "protection" and you get to keep a small cut. That way you don't get robbed or anything.
OP should be 22 yo now. I wonder how it turned out. In my city some 20 yo's tried establishing poker rooms with 1/2 and 2/5 NL games and were shortly taken over by the mafia. The kids claimed they were "merged"... right, for a 100-0% profit sharing. There is something called "protection", where you give all of your profits to "protection" and you get to keep a small cut. That way you don't get robbed or anything.
Thanks for telling us what protection from the mafia means
i still don't understand tho, i know this was origionally in some other forum(s), but now that it's here, is it on the basis of being a brag, beat, or variance?
i still don't understand tho, i know this was origionally in some other forum(s), but now that it's here, is it on the basis of being a brag, beat, or variance?
This was one of the classic threads in Home Poker IIRC.