What Time Is The Kentucky Powerball Drawing Tonight

While $750 one thousand thousand may seem like doormat change compared to the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot, you nevertheless accept a (very small) chance at condign a millionaire.

The next Powerball drawing is Satruday at 10:59 p.thousand. ET.

Nobody claimed - although one person in Louisville won the second prize of $i 1000000 -the jackpot in Saturday'southward drawing, so that ways its up for grabs once again this evening.

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Here's what to know almost the Powerball and this night'due south drawing:

How lucky is Kentucky when it comes to the Powerball?

Nicole Williams scratches in her numbers for Powerball tickets at Bader's Food Mart in downtown Louisville before Saturday's Powerball drawing. She said if she won she'd like to travel with her children, open up a boutique and give back.

Kentucky is ranked fourth for the most winners amongst 44 states and territories that play.

Since 1991, in that location have been 18 Powerball winners in Kentucky. Just last week, a Lexington store sold a $1 meg Powerball ticket.

Louisville has produced thirteen of those winners. (But remember: the most lottery tickets are sold in Jefferson County, making it tough to claim that Louisville is in the "luckiest" county for lottery players.)

Meanwhile, our friends in Indiana have been the luckiest in the country for Powerball players, with 39 winners, or nearly 11 percentage of all winners.

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Any notable Powerball winners in Kentucky?

In 2010, Rob Anderson, a Central Kentucky autoworker, bought a Powerball lottery ticket worth $126.half-dozen million on Christmas Eve while doing some last-minute shopping at a Georgetown gas station.

Then there was the sorry story of David Lee Edwards, an ex-con from Ashland, who won $27 million in 2001 but frittered information technology away on luxury purchases and illegal drugs before dying alone and penniless 12 years afterwards.

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