Pool Play increases your chances of winning by allowing you to join groups with friends and share together in winning prizes.

With Pool Play, you choose a portion of your tickets that you want to allocate to a group. Let's say you allocate 10 tickets and your other friends allocate 90 tickets. Since you contributed 10% of the total tickets to that pool, you will win 10% of the total prizes won by that group in a given week. So if the group wins $10 total, you would win $1.

You can join pools at any time, but the deadline is 3:30 pm ET on Mondays for your tickets to be applied to the pool for that week. If you join a pool after 3:30 ET on a Monday or if you allocate tickets to a group, it will apply for the following week's contest.