Workers at Live! Casino & Hotel trading operations make understanding to follow hopeful tonight. The gaming prop companion purchased 4,000 Powerball tickets for the estimated $1.2 one thousand million drawing.

If any of the tickets are winners, the jackpot will live divided up among accompany employees inwards Maryland, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

The troupe employs more than 4,000 workers. If single fine makes the jackpot, to each one worker would get well-nigh $300,000 before taxes, WBFF, a MD TV station, reported.

But the betting odds piss it a existent long shot that cassino workers will follow the lucky winners.

The betting odds of a just the ticket matching all half dozen Powerball numbers drawn remains invariable at 1 in 292.2 million. That’s the list of unique combinations made possible by the spunky being played with 69 whitened balls and 26 cerise Powerballs.

As exact increases, to a greater extent possible number combinations are covered for apiece drawing.

The drawing off is to live held at 10:59 pm (ET) at the FL Lottery studio inward Tallahassee.

Historic Drawing

Tonight’s drawing off is the back largest jackpot inwards the story of Powerball. It has a hard cash value of $596.7 million.

The game’s largest jackpot of $1.586 one million million was won on Jan. 13, 2016. It was shared among tierce winners.

There was no winner on Sabbatum or Monday. Powerball sold more or less 131.6 trillion tickets for Monday’s Halloween dark drawing.

No ticket matched all cinque white balls and blood-red Powerball to take the jackpot, which was $1 billion.

If at that place is a victor or winners this evening it would live the fourth-largest jackpot appreciate in US drawing history.

This is the largest Powerball prize in more than half a dozen years,” John Drew Svitko, chair of the Powerball Group and executive theatre director of the Keystone State Lottery said in a recent statement. “The jackpot is getting larger with every just the ticket sold.”

Powerball is operated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL).

In July, Live Casino also bought Mega Millions tickets for employees. The add together jackpot at that drawing off was $1.28 billion.

The largest lottery treasure won by a single US participant was a $1.537 one thousand million Mega Millions bonanza won past a participant inward South Carolinas inward October 2018.

Staggering Jackpot

There are many Powerball and Mega Millions winners.

For instance, Timothy Schultz, who lives inwards Iowa, won $28 meg inwards 1999 inwards the Ioway Powerball.

Back then, he worked as a clerk inwards an Hawkeye State gas station. He purchased the winning just the ticket at the station. Now, he operates a YouTube communication channel which airs interviews with drawing winners.

He told George Fox News Digital that tonight’s $1.2 1000000000 Powerball jackpot was a “staggering amount of money.”

“I know ameliorate than anyone that it only if takes ace fine to win,” Schultz added. “Your lifetime can buoy commute inward an instant.”