Two players beat the odds to win the second-largest Powerball jackpot in the game’s history. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. Not easy, but it does happen, and it did last night.
The jackpot for the September 6 draw ballooned to around $1.8 billion. Two tickets, one in Missouri and the other in Texas, had all six winning numbers and will split the jackpot. The winning numbers: 11, 23, 44, 61, 62, and the Powerball 17.
Two players in California matched all of those numbers, except the Powerball. Each of those tickets is worth $1,564,348, according to the California Lottery. One hot ticket was bought at Love’s Travel Stop at 2000 East Tehachapi Boulevard in Tehachapi, in nearby Kern County, between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. The other lucky ticket was sold up in Northern California, at a Circle K at 7850 Amador Valley Boulevard in Dublin, in the East Bay.
Players in the Golden State have scored major Powerball jackpots. The most recent Powerball jackpot was hit, a few months ago, on May 31, in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Arleta at a 7-Eleven. That ticket is worth $204.5 million. Then, there’s the largest Powerball jackpot ever, a staggering $2.04 billion won in California on November 7, 2022. That ticket was purchased at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena.
