Powerball jackpot up to $310 million

DES MOINES, Iowa - No one matched the Powerball's six numbers correctly to claim the top prize of $250 million Wednesday.

Now, the big pot is up to $310 million for Saturday night's drawing or a cool $193.4 million if the winner decides to take the cash value.

It's very close to the all-time biggest jackpot of $364 million, which was won on Feb. 18, 2006. Eight people decided to split the cash option. Their net take home was $177,270,519.67 before taxes.

Five players, one each in Georgia, North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska and New Jersey, matched five of the six numbers on Wednesday, and took home $1 million each.

The winning Powerball numbers in Wednesday night's game were 17-28-38-39-and-51, and the Powerball was 33.

[Riverjump]

Perspective: the odds of winning this is one in about 200 million. Having PCH show up at your house on Feb. 29th: one in about a BILLION and a half. Odds if you don't have a ticket? 0. Think I'll spend a couple bucks. Hey, that'd be almost enough to buy, I mean run for president.

[julesarcher1]

Can't lose if you don't play.

[Molly-Pchr]

"A mere bag o' shells" - Ralph Kramden. :)

[ohgoodnesswow]

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 to 195,249,054. Seems like a sure thing,eh? Get your ticket today!

[bringbackmfg]

Nobody else play so I can have better odds!

[sepa2]

hopefully half as many tickets will be sold

[andrus79]

HAHA. I called this one since they increased it to $2 a ticket. No jackpot winner for a bit so they can have the biggest winner in history to justify their price increase. Can you say fixed????