Saturday’s chance to win big money playing Powerball is here.

The grand prize is currently at $80 million, with a cash value of $48.9 million.

Last Wednesday’s winning numbers were 17, 40, 41, 46, and 69, and the Powerball was 6. There were regular 432,762 winners, and in $7,743,043 non-jackpot money was won.

There are actually nine ways to play Powerball. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 293 million. The odds of simply doubling your money on a $2 ticket are 1 in 38.

A Powerball player in North Carolina has just won $2 million. According to WXII News the winning ticket was purchased at an Alco gas station in Albemarle, North Carolina.

The ticket matched all five of the white numbers drawn on Wednesday but not the last Powerball number. Since whoever bought the winning ticket chose to spend an extra buck for the Power Play option, the prize went from $1 million to $2 million.

The winner, who has yet to come forward, has 180 days to claim the prize.

Typically, lottery stories are feel good stories. But enough winners have had to endure misfortune over their newfound wealth to suggest that new lottery winners should be cautious.

After winning $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988, William Post III got into some bad luck.

Just two weeks after he received his first annual payment of around $500,000, Post had already managed to spend two-thirds of it by buying a restaurant, a used-car lot, and even an airplane. Very soon he was $500,000 in debt.

As if that wasn’t enough, at some point his brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to try to kill him and his wife.

As reported in Time, Post saw all his problems as tied to his new fortune. “I was much happier when I was broke,” said Post, who died in 2006, leaving behind his seventh wife and nine children.

Be sure to check here for local stations broadcasting the Powerball drawing.