News reaches Lotto Central HQ this morning from our blog readers across the pond that after many rollovers the Powerball Jackpot was finally won last night with three ticket holders , one from California , one from Florida and one from Tennesee sharing the record breaking $1.5864 Billion Powerball Jackpot .
In the draw last night , Wednesday 13th January 2016 three ticket holders matched the main ball numbers of 04-08-19-27-34 and the Powerball of 10 and thus shared the $1.5864 Billion jackpot .
It was a great night for Powerball players – three ticket holders won the first prize but also eighty one lucky ticket holders won the second prize by matching the five main balls . The second prize ticket holders came from Arizona (x 4 – 1 with Powerplay ) , California ( x 12 ) , Connecticut ( x 3) , Florida ( x 12 – 1 with Powerplay ) , Georgia (x 2) , Illinois ( x 2) , Indiana , Iowa ( with Powerplay ) , Kansas ( x 2 ) , Kentucky ( x 3 ) , Louisiana , Maryland ( x 3 ), Massachusetts (x2), Michigan ( x 5 ) , New Jersey ( x 2 – 1 with Powerplay ) , New York ( x 5 ) , North Carolina ( x 2 – both with Powerplay ) , Ohio (x 3 ) , Oklahoma , Pennsylvania ( x3 ) , Rhode Island ( x 2 ) , Tennessee ( with Powerplay ) , Texas ( x 4 – 1 with Powerplay ) , Virginia ( x 2 ), Washington ( x2) and West Virginia.
The second prize ticket holders from California won $638,146 , the second prize ticket holders who selected the Powerplay option on their entry ticket won $2 million with all the remaining second prize winners scooping $1 million each !
The Powerball Lottery jackpot will therefore start off again at an estimated $40 million ( $24.8 million in cash) in the next Powerball Lottery Draw which will be drawn on Saturday 16th January 2016.
For the next Powerball draw the Lotto Central team recommend a visit to the Lotter to play the Powerball game online either as a single line entry or as part of a Powerball Lottery Syndicate.The perplexing issue is how to decide whether to play the next Powerball draw either as a single line entry or as part of a Powerball Syndicate – the answer of course is to do both options !
We wish all our blog readers a great week in their Lottery playing endeavours !
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