Current Events > One Player in MASSACHUSETTS has won the 758.7 Million POWERBALL Jackpot!!

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After days of anticipation over the second biggest jackpot in US lottery history, one person has won...and the ticket holder is in MASSACHUSETTES!!

They matched all 5 numbers, 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26.

That person may now walk away with 758.7 million smackers having beaten the one in 292 million odds to win

If the winner wants to take home the total jackpot sum, they must choose to have it in paid out in a 29 year annuity

Most however will choose the lump sum and in this case, 443.3 million moolah..minus the federal and state taxes that eat up 30% of their winnings.

Tom Rietz, a professor who researches probabilities says your chance of winning is roughly comparable to being that one lucky person out of the entire population with everyone else losing

Players have better odds of one in 25 of a lesser prize.

Those odds range from 1 in 11.7 million of winning 1 million for matching the 5 regular balls to one in 38 for matching the Powerball and winning $4.

This jackpot was second to only a massive 1.6 billion prize that was cashed out in January 2016.

Powerball is played in 44 states and Washington DC, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

Powerball's white balls are numbered one through 69, the red power ball is numbered one through 26. Tickets for the twice weekly draw cost 2 bucks each.

Did you play in this powerball?

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Yes. Am I'm from Massachusetts, but my ticket is in my car. Tomorrow it is.
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Fuck my life

I made comments all week about how it's gonna be something ridiculous like 5, 6, 7
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Why would anyone take the lump sum and lose 30% of it?
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