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.
1 Usually, Powerball tickets are divided into multiple sections called boards which have rows of multiple-choice style bubbles to fill in to choose your numbers. 2  Each board essentially counts as one $2 ticket. 3  In other words, for $2, you can fill out one board on the ticket and bet on a single set of numbers.