Will set US all-time record if no winner Saturday
By Todd Northrop
As a result of brisker than expected ticket sales, lottery officials announced today that the Powerball jackpot has been raised from $310 million to $325 million for Saturday's drawing.
The jackpot increase immediately launched Saturday's drawing to #9 on the United States all-time biggest jackpots list. It will be the third-largest Powerball jackpot ever. The jackpot's $202.9 million cash option is the highest in Powerball history.
With the new Powerball enhancements implemented in mid-January, the game has been redesigned to generate bigger jackpots and more millionaires.
The Powerball jackpot has been growing since Dec. 28 and has rolled 13 times.
If there is no Grand Prize winner Saturday night, the estimate for next Wednesday's drawing (Feb. 15, 2012) will be $415,000,000 — the largest lottery jackpot in United States history.
Powerball tickets are $2 per play.
Saturday's Powerball winning number results will be published at USA Mega (www.usamega.com) minutes after the 11:00 pm (Eastern Time) drawing takes place.
Let's keep it real people. One ticket is all you need.
I overheard a guy making a remark along the lines that people will play PB this week and not have food the next. True.
I remember a craze awhile back when the jackpot got real big....the machines were smoking trying to print all of the tickets people were buying.
It rolled that day and I believe went out the next draw. Sales were more than brisk, they were steaming.
Don't go overboard. Remember the odds but also remember it takes one ticket to win. It's okay to dream but don't lose your friggin mind.
And that folks is the public service announcement for today.
Oh and btw, I'm not playing.
If this rolls over which I think it will, it will definitely set a new record $400m plus!
Wow! "If there is no Grand Prize winner Saturday night, the estimate for next Wednesday's drawing (Feb. 15, 2012) will be $415,000,000 — the largest lottery jackpot in United States history."
That would be amazing! I almost want it to rollover just to see that, but I think I'll be happy with JUST $325,000,000!
On a whim, I stopped by one of our local convenience stores this afternoon and picked up a $2 QP. To my surprise the ticket read Est. CV of 202,900,000! Seems like it has been a while since I remember the lottery raising the level of the jackpot mid drawing. Someone is definitely going to be very happy this weekend. Good luck to all!
If this jackpot roll several more times, it could reach a billion dollars. If that happens, I could see MUSL putting a cap on it and adding more money to the 2nd place winners with powerplay.
Like I said on the eve of the last drawing, this would be a great weekend to grab the MM or your state's local lotto jackpot and slip off into oblivion. Good luck. Don't go crazy.
the record cash jackpot is $240 million, which is currently held by Mega Millions
will mm could have it record broken, that will be fun to watch. the lottery fever buying of 400m plus jackpot!
anytime cash jackpot"real jackpot" gets above 200m, you have a epic jackpot on your hands!
am going to buy ether 2 or 3 tickets, as buy 5 bucks was my max for 300m jackpots , so i up my limit to 6 bucks for now LOL.
if it rolls, , i up it to 10 bucks,
i have to limit it to 10 bucks or 5 tickets max , even thro a 400m jackpot would more then likly make me get a 20 out LOL. we see if it rolls.
btw, that 415m is a low ball, just like 193.4 million cash jackpot was a lowball, any time jackpot gets above 300m,. they always Lowball real amount, and up it when near draw and had time to guest real total sells by end of draw, with a few days of selling to make a spot on guest.
i remb mm 240 cash jackpot, kept being upped like what 3 times before draw, and even atfer the draw, it was upped to final cash amount of 240, They just could not low ball it ever time :P
Completely agree. What a great time for other new lotto millionares to slip underneath the radar. :)
Yeah, expect as I posted it, it dawned on me how ridiculous the notion if "grabbing" a lotto jackpot is. Like, "ooh, this looks nice... I'll have one of those...and if there is room in the basket, go ahead and grab a lottery jackpot, too."
Oh well, silly thoughts. I knew what I meant.
I agree and think anyone who wins the MM or any other lottery now will be (almost) ignored now till the big PB hits (so I will settle for MM).
i like this ,but why would they do that instead of just building up the JP ?
I agree, people loose their heads when the Jackpot get really big. A friend from OK and I were just talking tonight, he said that he was at a place In OK on the I40 Interstate, and people were talking about how much they were playing for PB for Saturday, and it was Thousands of dollars, they were hoping to win something back or they wouldn't have any money for food the next week. Now Come On People, thats taking it to the crazy side or taking mortgages out on your home so that you think it's going to give you a edge. Play within you means, if you can only afford $4.00 on Powerball and $2.00 on Mega Millions then thats what it it is. Or don't play one of them, play the one you want to play the most that time and the next time play the other one. My husband and I have a set amount we play, we don't go over that amount no matter how high the pots get.
Good Luck to everyone Playing Mega Millions tonight or those playing PowerBall on Saturday.
LottoLin
Nita & Bruce keep your fingers crossed that we get lucky and hit the PowerBall
I want to see a billion dollar jackpot, the media will lose their mind if that happens. I don't know how much I would throw at that, but it would be significant.
There is a guy here in my town who no one really knows who he is, but everyday at the same store, he has slips already there, and plays thousands of dollars in 3 digit, 4 digit, Keno and other lottery every day. He played $8,000 in one day the clerk told me. I can only imagine how much money he is going to throw at this.
If this hits $500 million I am going around the neighborhood and starting a lottery club.
I always could afford to play a little more but I never buy more than two Pb tickets per drawing (usually one). It only takes one. But it seems to me I recall reading that a lot of winners seem to say they purchased somewhere between $ 20-60 worth of tickets. That is too much for me. I see more than a few people in DC (mostly retirement age) who look like they have little money playing some keno lottery game (maybe the same game with the horses on the screen? Does not interest me.) and spending $60 or more at once. Always shocks me. Very hardcore players who give you a dirty look if you get in their way just to get your single ticket.
Well, to all the naysayers, who just a short two weeks ago, didn't give Powerball a snowball's chance in hell of getting even close to a new jackpot level. It's like New England weather, not happy with it,........... just wait a short spell.
indeeed ......
but the next few days ought to get really interesting REAL quick .......
good luck to all and remember to becareful what ya wish for ......
Just out of curiousity did you happen to notice that your little avatar in your signature calling people stupid was incorrect (I will let you figure out which part is wrong)?
I mean I have to know if that was intentional because if it was not that is pretty hilarious.
I believe it will roll at least 1 more time and hit $415 million, which will probably be $425 million come draw time. After that it still stands a good chance at rolling so we could be seeing a $550M jackpot very soon. $341 million cash option. lol
Oh my.................!
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Good luck hiding THAT kind of amount! $203,000,000 which is about $132,000,000 (I am working on a tack bracket of 35%) If your state doesn't have state taxes we are talking about $150,000,000, just for the taking!
Oh my word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the heck is a soul supposed to do with such an amount?! On a second thought, wrong question
As one member on this post mentioned, 1 ticket should suffice. I predict should anybody win this Saturday, it would be a single ticket holder. Should it roll over, it will still be a single ticket holder.
Now, WHY do I have a feeling that the lottery officials will PRESSURE the owner to do a press interview? No trusts, since they have to parade a winner and justify the increase in price in so doing?
Oh dear, this might turn out to be more than anybody would bargain for.
HAVE MERCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Should you be given a marvelous gift, share it with yourself first and see how it tastes THEN, share with those you see fit
- Sandia
We had a winner here in Missouri , in my area,
,, total win, $1 million.
^5 , good luck to all players, game on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prizes Paid
You might be a winner! Remember, all winning tickets must be claimed within 180 days from the drawing date.
Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 17-28-38-39-51 PB: 33
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Maybe so, but in many states it is clearly written in the rules that a winner may claim either by trust, corporation or even anonymously. They have to follow those rules.
Despite the possible pressure, any winner that has already had a gameplan in mind should definitely stick to it.
Todd, if I win can i get some sort of icon under my user name?
i dont know what your talking about
but back tto topic, looks from that payout chat from MO that 1 in 20 people are paying for the power play in MO at least
I vote for it to be a bullseye.
This is a nice increase on the jackpot, it'll cover the high rise condo in an income tax free state that I have my eye on!
My biggest concern is how much does a hundred million dollars in gold weigh and where on earth am I going to store it and hide it?
$50 million in gold and $50 million in oil should be about right and a tank...
http://goldprice.org/gold-price-per-kilo.html
this place has live gold price, in kg, so divide kg results by 1000, and you get metric tons of gold
50 mill/
$55234 /kg
= 905kg
or 0.9 metric ton lol not even a tone of gold