FILE – A show panel advertises tickets for a Powerball drawing at a comfort retailer, Nov. 7, 2022, in Renfrew, Pa. The ninth-largest lottery jackpot might be on the road when numbers are drawn for a $785 million Powerball prize. The payout for the drawing, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023 has grown so massive as a result of it has been constructing for greater than two months, since a participant in California matched all six numbers on July 19. (AP Photograph/Keith Srakocic, File)
The winner of final yr’s $1.765 billion Powerball Jackpot, the second highest-ever, was revealed by California Lottery officers Friday.
Theodorus Struyck represents a bunch of winners who purchased the prized ticket from Halfway Market within the Frazier Park neighborhood of Kern County in October, a information launch acknowledged.
Halfway Market – a family-owned enterprise for 30 years – acquired a $1 million bonus verify for promoting the ticket.
“That’s essentially the most thrilling information ever (to) occur to Frazier Park,” stated retailer co-owner Nidal Khalil.
Retailer co-owner Nidal Khalil, heart, smiles with son Jonathan Khalil, left, and nephew Chris Khalil, proper, after placing on T-shirts on the Halfway Market & Liquor retailer, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Frazier Park, Calif., the place a profitable Powerball lottery ticket was offered. (AP Photograph/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
$1.765 billion Powerball jackpot goes to a participant who purchased a ticket in a California mountain city
The jackpot win got here after 35 missed drawings in that Powerball sequence, lottery officers acknowledged in a information launch.
“Asserting massive wins like this offers all of our gamers the prospect to hope and dream that they could possibly be subsequent,” stated California Lottery Director Harjinder Ok. Shergill Chima.
In the meantime, gamers are lining up throughout the state for an opportunity at two jackpots at the moment approaching the billion-dollar mark.
The subsequent Powerball draw takes place Saturday and carries a jackpot at the moment estimated at $600 million, in line with the California Lottery web site.
Equally, the Mega Hundreds of thousands prize pot simply elevated to an estimated $815 million for Friday night time’s drawing.