Money Dilemma: Would u rather a sure $10 MIL vs a CHANCE at $1 BILLION?
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10 mill. Honestly, I think my life would be happier winning 10 mil or even 5 mill that a BILLION. Imagine how many people would hate you. "Oh you got 1,000 millions and only gave me $100,000?" 
Plus, with 10 killion, I'd still be motivated to make more money. I'd be able to keep my mind sharp by investing and looking over my businesses. Plus i'd be surrounded by rich motivated people rather than wealthy entitled ones.I couldn't imagine trying to raise children if I had a Billion in the bank and they knew it.
Plus, with 10 killion, I'd still be motivated to make more money. I'd be able to keep my mind sharp by investing and looking over my businesses. Plus i'd be surrounded by rich motivated people rather than wealthy entitled ones.I couldn't imagine trying to raise children if I had a Billion in the bank and they knew it.
welp...my brackets already ruined.
Mine 2. But I'm cool with it. Kinda making it easy for Michigan state to take it all
this
Duke....
Ten million. It's not as if I know how to make the most of it (and you don't either)
Only way I'd go for a chance at a billi if anonymity was permitted. Either way I'm on a desert paradise. Fuck friends.
Only way I'd go for a chance at a billi if anonymity was permitted. Either way I'm on a desert paradise. Fuck friends.
Ten million. It's not as if I know how to make the most of it (and you don't either)
Only way I'd go for a chance at a billi if anonymity was permitted. Either way I'm on a desert paradise. Fuck friends.
Only way I'd go for a chance at a billi if anonymity was permitted. Either way I'm on a desert paradise. Fuck friends.
Fuckin unanimous, so far! 
A billie's cool, but I'd live like a king with 10 Mil!
A billie's cool, but I'd live like a king with 10 Mil!
Fuckin unanimous, so far!
I think this may be the FIRST shutout in bgol history
* damn...
NCAA Tournament’s second day sees Warren Buffet's ‘Billion Dollar Bracket’ contest end as all entries are busted
Only 16 people remained perfect after 10th-seeded Stanford topped New Mexico. Then Tennessee routed UMass, leaving only six. Gonzaga’s victory over Oklahoma State cut that down to the final three.
The billion dollar dream is over.
A second day of upsets ended any chance of someone having a perfect NCAA tournament bracket in Warren Buffet’s $1 billion challenge. It was a favorite that provided the first blemish on the final three people’s brackets in the Quicken Loans contest on the Yahoo Sports website.
All three had ninth-seeded George Washington beating Memphis. The Tigers won 71-66.
Then again most of brackets were knocked out on the tournament’s first full day. The number of unblemished brackets kept dwindling after third-seed Duke, sixth-seed UMass and seventh-seed New Mexico lost Friday.
Only 16 people remained perfect after 10th-seeded Stanford topped New Mexico. Then Tennessee routed UMass, leaving only six people with a chance of beating the 9.2 quintillion-to-1 odds.
Gonzaga’s victory over Oklahoma State cut that down to the final three.
Quicken Loans, which is sponsoring and insuring the Buffet contest, said on its Twitter feed that it wouldn’t reveal the number of entrants to the challenge.
The pool was supposed to be capped at 15 million entries. It probably wouldn’t have mattered if they had let more people join.
At CBSSports.com, only 0.03 percent of entrants were still perfect after Mercer upset Duke. They didn’t last much longer as Tennessee’s rout of UMass wiped out all the remaining unblemished entries. It took 21 games to end everyone’s hope of perfection this year. Last season it took 23 games and 24 in 2012.
This year people lasted a little longer. After the first 25 games, three perfect brackets remained out of the 11 million entered.
NCAA Tournament’s second day sees Warren Buffet's ‘Billion Dollar Bracket’ contest end as all entries are busted
Only 16 people remained perfect after 10th-seeded Stanford topped New Mexico. Then Tennessee routed UMass, leaving only six. Gonzaga’s victory over Oklahoma State cut that down to the final three.
If YOU were one of the 16 are so sure you wouldn't STILL take the 10 MIL???
The billion dollar dream is over.
A second day of upsets ended any chance of someone having a perfect NCAA tournament bracket in Warren Buffet’s $1 billion challenge. It was a favorite that provided the first blemish on the final three people’s brackets in the Quicken Loans contest on the Yahoo Sports website.
All three had ninth-seeded George Washington beating Memphis. The Tigers won 71-66.
It only took 25 games for everyone to be eliminated.
Then again most of brackets were knocked out on the tournament’s first full day. The number of unblemished brackets kept dwindling after third-seed Duke, sixth-seed UMass and seventh-seed New Mexico lost Friday.
Only 16 people remained perfect after 10th-seeded Stanford topped New Mexico. Then Tennessee routed UMass, leaving only six people with a chance of beating the 9.2 quintillion-to-1 odds.
Gonzaga’s victory over Oklahoma State cut that down to the final three.
Even though no one won the $1 billion, the top 20 scores will still each get $100,000.
Quicken Loans, which is sponsoring and insuring the Buffet contest, said on its Twitter feed that it wouldn’t reveal the number of entrants to the challenge.
The pool was supposed to be capped at 15 million entries. It probably wouldn’t have mattered if they had let more people join.
At CBSSports.com, only 0.03 percent of entrants were still perfect after Mercer upset Duke. They didn’t last much longer as Tennessee’s rout of UMass wiped out all the remaining unblemished entries. It took 21 games to end everyone’s hope of perfection this year. Last season it took 23 games and 24 in 2012.
A year ago, not a single person of the 11 million who entered on ESPN’s website was perfect after a first day filled with upsets. Just four got 15 out of 16 right.
This year people lasted a little longer. After the first 25 games, three perfect brackets remained out of the 11 million entered.
Billionaire Buffett: Bracket challenge will be easier next year
“I would have preferred to see it go quite a bit longer,” Buffett, who was insuring the Quicken Loans contest, said on Dan Patrick's show on Monday. “Not all the way, but quite a bit longer.”
Fortunately, Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said he's interested in having another challenge next year, albeit with a few tweaks.
“I'd like to modify it a little bit so people have an even better shot to win it than they had this year,” he told Patrick.
“Wait until next year though. I think we're going to come up with something better next year,” he said, noting that Quicken Loans president Dan Gilbert would need to sign off on the gamble as well. “We'll make it a lot easier to enter. There were some questions that were a little tough, I thought. We'll make it easier to win but I think we'll have an exciting prize.”
Patrick asked Buffett specifically if he wanted to dole out the billion, and Buffett, the man worth more than $60 billion, actually answered in the affirmative.
“I wouldn't have minded doing it. We've paid out big on insurance policies in the past – we paid out $3 billion on Katrina, so that's just part of the insurance business. It would not have bothered me to pay out the billion.”
Seriously, what are the odds that that's the first time in human history such a sentence has ever been uttered?
Still not convinced the giant Creighton fan isn't the coolest semi-sports related figure this side of Mark Cuban? Buffett also dropped that his incredible wealth has little impact on his day-to-day schedule.
“I'm just going to spend a very tiny fraction. [The money] moves around a lot. It does not change my life. I'll have a hamburger and a coke for lunch no matter what happens.”
Ugh, this guy. What a life.
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Much to everyone's chagrin – even Warren Buffett himself – the billion-dollar bracket challenge didn't yield any winners. The buzz didn't even survive the first round of games as all the brackets were busted by Friday night – 25 games in.
“I would have preferred to see it go quite a bit longer,” Buffett, who was insuring the Quicken Loans contest, said on Dan Patrick's show on Monday. “Not all the way, but quite a bit longer.”
Fortunately, Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said he's interested in having another challenge next year, albeit with a few tweaks.
“I'd like to modify it a little bit so people have an even better shot to win it than they had this year,” he told Patrick.
“Wait until next year though. I think we're going to come up with something better next year,” he said, noting that Quicken Loans president Dan Gilbert would need to sign off on the gamble as well. “We'll make it a lot easier to enter. There were some questions that were a little tough, I thought. We'll make it easier to win but I think we'll have an exciting prize.”
Patrick asked Buffett specifically if he wanted to dole out the billion, and Buffett, the man worth more than $60 billion, actually answered in the affirmative.
“I wouldn't have minded doing it. We've paid out big on insurance policies in the past – we paid out $3 billion on Katrina, so that's just part of the insurance business. It would not have bothered me to pay out the billion.”
Seriously, what are the odds that that's the first time in human history such a sentence has ever been uttered?
Still not convinced the giant Creighton fan isn't the coolest semi-sports related figure this side of Mark Cuban? Buffett also dropped that his incredible wealth has little impact on his day-to-day schedule.
“I'm just going to spend a very tiny fraction. [The money] moves around a lot. It does not change my life. I'll have a hamburger and a coke for lunch no matter what happens.”
Ugh, this guy. What a life.
Preach
i wonder if they are gong to this AGAIN???
Seems like any average person would say 10 million. I will admit I would tell them look just hurry up and give me the money right now. I got a lot of spending and building to do.
We live in a world where the people that call the shots and run everything have billions, trillions, and more. Seems like they got that money to make sure the resources and power does not fall back into the hands of it's original owners (BLACKS).
We are all involved in the game of life they play. There has got to be a start of getting real money that they do not control. Something that really belongs to you and it is not loaned to you.
http://oneblacknation.webs.com/
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We live in a world where the people that call the shots and run everything have billions, trillions, and more. Seems like they got that money to make sure the resources and power does not fall back into the hands of it's original owners (BLACKS).
We are all involved in the game of life they play. There has got to be a start of getting real money that they do not control. Something that really belongs to you and it is not loaned to you.
http://oneblacknation.webs.com/
http://blacknation.vpweb.com/default.html
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I won $10M. Thanks Quicken Loans!
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i see they didn't try THIS again
Gimme the 10 mil!
No brainer to me. Give me the $10M.
I know it was for ME but I'm telling you most white people took awhile to answer and rationalized the hell out of it...
and also I was surprised that regardless of race there QUITE a few stone cold gamblers out there.
Many were like if they calling me they must KNOW I'm gonna win.
And the interns were also not too smart.
I was happy the only young sister was like I'm gonna invest in and keep working and not touch it for like 20 years.
I'm telling you many people would feel like they are WAY TOO close...
A friend of mind got deep into it and said that this question shows you how those tea party crazies and many poor white people (probably poor in general) think.
And usually vote against their own best interests because they genuinely BELIEVE that one day THEY will be millionaires so they don't want the laws to hurt the wealthy.
Those are gamblers man. Some cats don't know how to walk away when they're up. 10 million is enough to invest 9 and buy a home and a car with the rest, and still have money left over. I won 500 bucks playing roulette, and I cashed out immediately...I'm not greedy. I could win more...could...not I'm going to win more.
10 Mill is enough to live a wonderful life for generations so I'd roll with that.
I hear you but it takes A LOT to walk away.
Pssshhh.. that easy... $10 mil now... Id move to Panama/Costa Rica/Ecuador and live like a fuckin king for less than $1000 a month... and probably move some family and friends down there. Fuck staying in this country cause that money would be gone before you know it..
10 million, no question...living like fine wine
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