Shaun Deeb buy tickets for the American Powerball lottery which had a $2.04 billion jackpot.

Deeb estimated that the consortium was about 6,500 to 1 to win the jackpot but the tension didn’t end there.

The draw was then delayed with some commentators suggesting that Deeb’s eight-hour run of ticket printing might have slowed down the entire process but it was nothing more than a security protocol issue.

Deeb’s investors didn’t hit the jackpot and got $8,660 back, slightly less than 10%. He then suggested that the team gamble between each other to avoid sending a ton of $50 transfers but this was not done following the advice of poker player and federal tax professional Russell Fox.

At $2 a ticket this is a whopping $584 million, but still a profitable opportunity if the ticket only splits between three identical numbers or only one for the one time lump sum that was predicted to be $746 at the time. That said, nobody has ever split the jackpot before.