If you delay enrolling in Medicare, you can continue to stash cash in a health savings account. But this may not be a good move. By Kimberly LankfordSee my bio, plus links to all my recent stories.
Since tickets cost $2, the prize pool has to be at least ($2 x 175 million = ) $350 million before buying a Powerball ticket is what gamblers call a positive-expectation play â a bet that, statistically, will pay more than $1 for each $1 played.
And yet Powerball sold enough $2 tickets to nearly double its minimum $10 million increase and land at $100 million for the annuity, $56.1 million for the cash. The rollover, of course, happened because no ticket matched all the numbers drawn last night: 6, 9, 11, 31 and 44, with a Powerball of 25.