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The lottery game prize rose to an estimated $1.73 billion ahead of Wednesday night’s drawing. The cash value is about $756.6 million, according to a Powerball news release.This prize is the second-largest in game history. Powerball says the jackpot is also the second-largest in U.S. lottery history behind the top Powerball jackpot of $2.04 billion, which was won last November.There have already been two large Powerball jackpots won this year, including a $754.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, while the odds of winning any prize are 1 in 24.9., Breaking News Reporter. Lana Ferguson joined The Dallas Morning News after reporting in South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette newspapers. She graduated from the University of Mississippi where she studied journalism and Southern studies. She's a Virginia native but her work has taken her all over the U.S., southern Africa, and Sri Lanka.
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