Huge Powerball jackpot goes up by $50M

Lawson’s jackpot holds the record for the largest Lottery prize ever won in MI.

The jackpot for tonight’s Powerball draw has been increased to an estimated to half-a-billion dollars, for the annuity prize or a one-time cash payout of $306,000,000. But as lottery officials often note, you have no chance of winning if you don’t buy a ticket.

“People who don’t usually buy tickets come in when the jackpot is higher”, Mr. Noone said.

Will you be trying your luck in tomorrow’s Powerball drawing? That’s because when people hear that they didn’t hit the big jackpot, they often neglect to check whether they won any smaller prizes, according to Jacobson.

If there are no winners the next drawing will be Saturday.

It’s a sure thing that thousands of viwers will tune in at 11 p.m. Wednesday evening when the Powerball jackpot numbers are revealed by the New Hampshire Lottery Commission.

The husband and wife say they rarely play the lottery, but a big jackpot got their attention.

Grier comes to the same gas station every day to purchase his tickets, and enjoys the process of buying them as much as the idea of winning.

Even though the odds of winning are one in about 300 million, Reed is still thinking about what she would do with all that cash.

“I believe if I am the last one, I got more lucky”, Nguyen said.

A sign advertising Powerball tickets is pictured next to a display… Texas has had 15 second-tier Powerball winners of $1 million or $2 million since January 2015.

In order to win the full $500 million jackpot, a player must match five of the white numbers in any order to the ones drawn, and players must match an additional red number. “Just consider that gone and you can afford to do it”, Rush said.

The biggest jackpot was a $656-million Mega Millions prize won in 2012.