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Two Texas Lottery winners that played the game correctly are now being "caught in the crossfire" after two jackpot ...
The budget for the Texas Lottery Commission, which brings about $2 billion a year to the state treasury, has been reduced to ...
In a significant regulatory shift, the Texas Lottery Commission has enacted an immediate ban on lottery ticket courier services in the ...
AUSTIN, Texas — After Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick raised questions in February about the use of lottery couriers to sell an $83.5 million jackpot ticket, the little-known segment of the gaming industry ...
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, bought $20 worth of Texas Lotto tickets for the Feb. 17 drawing on the app Jackpocket — a lottery courier service state lawmakers are now trying ...
A courier is a service that purchases lottery tickets on a customer's behalf online while charging a service fee. Last month, Texas Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick posted a video on X where he said ...
Third-party lottery courier service providers have been under scrutiny in Texas since 2023, when a group procured 25 million tickets from four different courier services for a single drawing ...
In practice, however, Jackpocket and other courier services in Texas are hardly the lottery’s food delivery equivalent. Most couriers own the stores they use to provide customers with tickets ...