PowerBall has a winner
Friday June 4th 2010Lottery players worldwide have been watching this US multi state lottery game as it has climbed for a few weeks now and the 10 X promotion that was on offer in May made this lottery even more popular. There is no doubt that the $260 million jackpot that was up for grabs for the draw on Wednesday was one of the biggest, if not the biggest lottery jackpot in the world and now that this draw has taken place we can now reveal that after weeks of anticipation, the PowerBall has a winner of the massive $260 million jackpot.
There are few details regarding this PowerBall win at the moment and as this is such a large win it may take a while for the full details of the winner to emerge, if at all. What we can tell you is that they the lucky winner is a single ticket holder from Ohio and there were also 13 lucky players who managed to match five number on this PowerBall draw to scoop $200,000 each.
Although there are no huge lottery jackpots on offer in the US at the moment, as both PowerBall and MegaMillions have both had winners recently, this does create excitement in that both of these lottery games are very evenly matched with the MegaMillions standing at $17 million and the PowerBall restarting at $20 million. This will leave players having to decide which game to buy a lotto ticket for this weekend.
The next MegaMillions draw is taking place on Friday and the PowerBall has a draw on Saturday.