Last Tuesday was a big day on the other side of the Atlantic. Indeed, the identity of the biggest winner in Powerball history has come to light. A certain Edwin Castro had a very lucky hand in the United States lottery. Today, he is at the head of a fortune of 2 billion dollars (more precisely 997.6 million dollars) and he intends to share part of his gain. Good news for those around him and the Californian public school system, which will benefit from a donation!
The identity of the biggest winner of the Powerball revealed this Tuesday
Edwin Castro climbed to the top of the podium and he will stay there for a long time given the sum he won: 2.04 billion dollars. Never seen ! He played last November in the city of Altadena.
In California, unlike France, the identity of the lucky ones is revealed in broad daylight during an official press conference. The latter took place on Tuesday.
📣 « The ticket matched numbers 10, 33, 41, 47, 56 and ‘Powerball’ number 10″, said the California Lottery.
In reality, this winner preferred to receive the “Cash” option rather than the payment by annuity, the Californian lottery operator indicated that a transfer of 997.6 million dollars was made to him!
A generous billionaire with California schools
The great champion was absent at the press conference, but he had left a sweet note for the audience…
📣 “Even though I am shocked and ecstatic to have won, the real winner is the California public school system,” had he written
📣 “This funding is largely discretionary, which means schools can use it for important, but unfunded education programs that they otherwise could not afford,” said the California Lottery.
In effect, the “almost” billionaire donated $156.3 millionor 15% of its fortune, which will go equally to each of the schools in the State according to their size.
Californian schools are not the only ones to be rewarded by this exceptional Powerball draw and its pharaonic prize, the seller of the winning ticket, the ” Joe’s service center will also receive a $1 million award from California Lottery operator as required by the rules.
Everything is possible even with a 1 in 292.2 million chance of winning the jackpot!
The chances are slim, even very slim, of winning the jackpot in a Powerball draw, but they do exist. Thus, for each combination played of an amount of $2, you will have 1 chance out of 292 million different combinations of finding the winning combination.
It should be noted that American lotteries Powerball or Mega Millions do not provide for a ceiling of maximum winnings unlike the Euromillions, this is the reason why the jackpots often exceed the bar of 1 billion dollars up to the historical record of this Californian winner for 2.04 billion dollars.
