$320M jackpot up for grabs in Saturday's Powerball
Dave and Nancy Honeywell pose for pictures as the winners of the $217 million Powerball jackpot on Feb. 14, 2013. / AP Photo/Clement Britt
Saturday's Powerball win could make you as rich as Elton John.
The current jackpot is a staggering $320 million, the net worth of Britain's biggest star.
It will be the sixth-largest ever draw in Powerball history, but could grow even larger as people hear of the amount at stake, and rush to buy a ticket in the next 24 hours.
No one has won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket for the $217 million jackpot.
The largest Powerball jackpot ever came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets - one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man - and the jackpot was split.
Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket - $365 million. That jackpot was won by eight workers at a Lincoln, Neb., meatpacking plant in February 2006.
The odds of winning Saturday's Powerball are 1 in 175 million ... that's just over half of the jackpot.
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- 320 One Million Dollar Winners would be better. More people would play knowing they had several chances to win (-35% in Fed Taxes + state taxes where applicable)... and by the way, $320 Million even minus taxes is still way too much money for one person to win. Spread the wealth around.
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- How can Pennsylvanians afford to gamble on this Powerball award? The PA Lottery Commission refuses to pay on significant jack-pots advertised with instant cards and state computer games. Players need seed money to buy powerball tickets. These fraudulent state lotteries rely on deception to fleece unsuspecting Citizens.
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