Powerball Numbers and Results Aug 22, 2015: Watch Live Stream of Drawing for $90 Million Jackpot
Saturday’s chance to make big money playing Powerball is here.
The grand prize is currently at $90 million, with a cash value of $57.7 million. Last Wednesday’s winning numbers were: 6, 8, 43, 48, 50 and 7. There were 429,455 regular winners and $5,628,533 in non-jackpot money was won.
There are actually nine ways to play Powerball. Though the odds will likely change in October, currently there is a 1 in 175,223,510.00 chance in winning the grand prize and a 1 in 5,153,632.65 chance in winning $1,000,000.
So the odds of winning are slim, but people do win. The main thing a Powerball player has to do, outside of checking the numbers, is hold on to the ticket.
Nineteen employees at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital, a medical center that happens to be the largest hospital in the state of Missouri, will now be sharing a $1 million Powerball prize.
Split between each winner, that $1 million prize comes out to $52,631 (before taxes) for every individual.
The winners matched all five white-ball numbers in the Aug. 12 drawing.
One of the lucky 19, Vikki Kellenberger, recalls how easily the Powerball pool was started up, telling St. Louis’s FOX affiliate, “We just got a pool together and decided to start playing and we all put five dollars in.”
“So I’m trying to pull up my phone look at the numbers on my phone and I look and I’m like ‘Holy cow! We just won a million dollars,” explained Kellenberger, adding, “We just sat there in disbelief for a long time.”
Terri Mastis, the co-winner who purchased the winning ticket that week, explained the simplicity of the system the team used to win, saying, “We put $5 in a week rotate take turns buying the tickets.”
“I think the good thing is it’s a lot of prayer answered and I think it’s going to really touch a lot of lives. It’s a big group and a great group of people,” says Mastis.
Be sure to check here for local stations broadcasting the Powerball drawing.
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