Powerball Numbers & Results April 4, 2015: Watch Live Stream Of Drawing For $60 Million Jackpot
Saturday’s Powerball is here.
Last Wednesday’s winning numbers were 2, 3, 33, 39, 44, and 1.
There were no jackpot winners on Wednesday, so the estimated jackpot has rolled up to $60 million, with a $40.1 million cash value.
There were, however, 359,448 non-Jackpot winners and $3,550,610 in non-Jackpot prizes awarded.
Perhaps the extra week of rollover has given potential players a little bit of time to think of what they might do with all that money.
You’d think any kind of big win would be enough to radically change one’s life, but that's not always so. In 2007 a New Mexico mechanic named Felipe Piña won $62.8 million ($29.5 million after taxes) in a Powerball Jackpot and more or less went about with the same old routine.
At the urging of a financial investor, Piña took his winnings in one lump sum and then basically just traded in his double-wide trailer for a 3,000-square-foot home and started to fix up his shop with a brand new garage. In his sixties, Piña always prided himself on being careful with money.
Of course the media was after his story.
As reported by the Daily Beast, Piña turned down an appearance on "Oprah" but in the end agreed to go on a few Univision programs, and then in 2009 he went on the TLC series “The Lottery Changed My Life.”
That was a big mistake.
Piña says that ever since the show aired he and his family keep getting letters from strangers asking for money.
“I tell everybody that I invested my money in government bonds and just wish them the best of luck,” Piña said. “If I helped everybody out I’d already be broke. I’m not a god to save every Tom and Dick that calls me up.”
He did help out his family. Each of his three children, as well as a few nieces and nephews, received $12,000.
“I helped my family out and everything. ... But I’m not going to give them $1 million each, they have to go out and earn it,” Piña said.
There is a 1 in 175,223,510.00 Grand Prize in the upcoming and a 1 in 5,153,632.65 in winning $1,000,000.
Check here for local stations broadcasting the Powerball drawing.
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